Opportunities and Challenges for Dispute Resolution Processes in Elder Care: Panel discussion coming up
ACR Chicago Chapter and the Centerfor Conflict Resolution
Present:
Opportunities and Challenges for Dispute ResolutionProcesses in Elder Care
Please join us to explore the roleof conflict resolution in the elder care field today. A panel of distinguishedprofessionals from various disciplines will share their experiences withconflict resolution approaches and processes in the elder care arena. Thepanelists’ knowledge and insight will provide guidance to professionals whoface elder care issues, challenges and concerns. The program will be ofinterest to anyone who is involved in elder care law, conflict resolution inhealth care settings, estate planning professionals, families, communities,faith-based institutions, social service agencies, mental health professionalsand academia.
When: Tuesday, November11, 2008
5:30-6:00 pmReception
6:00-7:30 pm Program
Where: Northwestern School of Continuing Studies — Loop Campus
210 South Clark Street, 16th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604-1401
Cost: Free to ACRChicago Members
$10.00 for the public (new or renewal memberships accepted at door)
Marguerite Angelari is the Goedert Elder Law Professor &Director of the Elder Law Initiative and Elder Law Clinic at Loyola UniversityChicago. Professor Angelari’s academic and advocacy efforts focus onadult guardianship, advance directives, elder abuse and neglect, long termcare, gender and aging, and disability law. She is the chair of the Agingand the Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools and a pastpresident of the Illinois Chapter of the National Academy of Elder LawAttorneys. She recently received the Leonard Jay Schrager Award ofExcellence from the Chicago Bar Association and Foundation for her efforts toimprove access to justice for the less fortunate. Professor Angelari is aco-author of the forthcoming: “You and Your Aging Parents: TheAmerican Bar Association Guide to the Legal, Medical and Social Issues.”
Janna Dutton is certified by the National Elder LawFoundation as an Elder Law attorney, and has held this certification since1995. She has been practicing in the area of elder law for more than 25 years.Presently she concentrates her practice in the area of guardianship, trusts andestate planning, Medicaid, including planning and applications, Medicare andother health insurance coverage problems, probate and estate administration,and other issues affecting the elderly. Prior to opening her private practice,Ms. Dutton was Project Director of Senior Citizens Legal Services with CookCounty Legal Assistance Foundation. Ms. Dutton completed her undergraduateeducation at Wheaton College and received her law degree from DePaul UniversityCollege of Law. She is a frequent lecturer for the Illinois Institute ofContinuing Legal Education and the Chicago Bar Association, and authored achapter on Medicaid for IICLE’s handbook, “Advising Elderly Clients andTheir Families”. She currently serves on the governing boards of the IllinoisDisability Association, the not-for-profit co-trustee of the IllinoisDisability Pooled Trust, and Illinois Citizen’s for Better Care, a nursing homeresidents’ advocacy organization, and has served as president of the IllinoisChapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Janna has alsobeen recognized by Chicago Lawyer as one of the “Top Women Lawyers inIllinois 2008.” She also holds the recognition of “Top Lawyer inIllinois” for 2007, 2006 and 2004, by Chicago Lawyer.
Elizabeth Gould is a licensed clinical social worker with 18years of experience working with older adults. She is currently theDirector of Quality Care Programs at the National Office of the Alzheimer’sAssociation. In conjunction with the Public Policy Division of theAlzheimer’s Association, she is working to promote quality dementia care inhealth and long term care settings through consumer education, Web basedapplications and training curricula. Prior to working for the Alzheimer’sAssociation, Elizabeth was on faculty in the Department of Social Welfare atUCLA and managed a large internship in geriatrics for graduate social workstudents at the VA in West Los Angeles. She has many years of clinicalexperience from the VA healthcare system where she worked in geriatrics andextended care. Elizabeth became a certified mediator with the Chicago Centerfor Conflict Resolution in April 2005 and has an interest in working with olderadults and families in transition. She holds a Masters degree in Social Workwith a concentration in gerontology from California State University, LongBeach.
Linda Ochsenfeld mediates elder care andworkplace/employment disputes. She has advanced training in several typesof mediation and primarily uses a transformative mediation style. She has mediated guardianship matters, disputes between Medicare beneficiariesand health care providers, and employment disputes from the U.S. PostalService, the Transportation Security Administration, and the IllinoisDepartment of Human Rights. In her law practice, she has concentrated inelder and employment law and has provided services for hospice patients andhomebound seniors. Linda has training through the Institute for the Studyof Conflict Transformation, the Center for Social Gerontology, and the Centerfor Conflict Resolution.
Amy Roth’s experience as an advocatefor the elderly is both wide and varied. In addition to her training in divorceand family mediation from Northwestern University and elder mediation trainingthrough Elder Decisions in Boston, Amy has served over seven years with RainbowHospice in Chicago. Along with a Certificate in Aging from Boston College,Amy’s clinical social work experience, in both hospital and in-home situations,puts her at the forefront of elder advocacy.
Many thanks to:
Northwestern School of Continuing Studies
for hosting this Program
Please RSVP by November 7, 2008 to info@acrchicago.org
or by calling (312) 458-0984
Marguerite Angelari
Goedert Elder Law Professor and Director
Elder Law Initiative of the Institute for Health Law
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Suite 1414
25 East Pearson Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Tel. (312) 915-7835
Fax (312) 915-7115