Ithaca College

Our U.S. health care system, which helps many people to live to a ripe old age, does not necessarily serve well those elders with complex chronic health situations.  However, promising new approaches to chronic disease treatment and management and to geriatric care in general, are being developed across the nation

These new approaches will be the primary focus of "Dignity, Compassion and Choice: New Approaches to Geriatric Care" the Gerontology Institute Annual Conference to be held September 30, 2010 in the Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall.

The keynote speaker will be Dennis McCullough, M.D., associate professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School.  Dr. McCullough is an "in the trenches" family physician and geriatrician who has spent his life helping families cope with their parents' aging and eventual final passage.  He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. In his recent book "My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing Slow Medicine" he shares the experiences he faced with his own aging mother.

For more information and to register visit https://www.ithaca.edu/gps/geront_conference/ or contact Marilyn Kinner at mkinner@ithaca.edu