Welcome Members & Visitors!

Due to the growing concerns to the spread of the Coronavirus Our next meeting will be a Virtual Network Meeting Via ZOOM on Thursday, May 21. For more information email: marie.borders@compass.com

COVID-19 is Challenging All of Us These Days!
Marin County Section on Aging Invites You to Join Us for Our May Presentation
Inspiration and Personal Peace

Presenters:
Nancy Hoffman, PsyD
Dr. Hoffman is a geriatric neuropsychologist in private practice in Northern California with offices in San Rafael and Santa Rosa. She specializes in the neuropsychological assessment of cognition in older adults and accepts referrals from physicians and other healthcare professionals.

Rob Rosborough
He will lead us in a mini-meditation: Certified iRest meditation teacher Rob Rosborough will lead a brief meditation to help us all relax that will also teach you some simple relaxation techniques to use on your own.” iRest is designed to bring the healing benefits of yogic and meditative practices to a wide variety of people.
Robert S. Rosborough is a lawyer, mediator, and professor with a diverse practice focusing on elder issues and estate planning as well as land use, environmental, real estate, and small business. His mediation practice emphasizes cases in which there has been an ongoing relationship among the parties, such as disputes involving families, homeowner associations and neighbors, partnerships, and small business.
Rob earned his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Dr. Barbara Kamholz acts as a consulting geriatric psychiatrist to Aging Solutions, Inc., and leads The Care Method team. Dr. Kamholz has deep knowledge and experience with the complex cognitive disorders that afflict older adults—including dementia in all its forms, depression, mood disorders, and memory problems. Barbara has also made a specialty of delirium, an acute condition that can overwhelm the mind and she is an expert in the psychopharmacology of older adults. Barbara is board-certified in geriatric psychiatry, having received her M.D. from Drexel University in Philadelphia, with postgraduate work at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Georgetown University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she did her geriatric psychiatry fellowship. She has taught psychiatry in medical schools at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, Duke University, and the University of California San Francisco, and is co-author of numerous peer-reviewed papers.

Laurie McKay is a registered nurse and has worked in the health care field for over 40 years. She has devoted her life to working with seniors. She started off her career working in a skilled nursing home as a care giver and ended up as the Administrator of the 256 bed facility. While working her way up to the administrator position she filled each role in the nursing department as well. She has held an Administrator’s license for Assisted Living Facilities. Although she loves working with seniors her work in palliative, hospice and end of life care is where her heart is and where she plans to finish her life work as a nurse.

~ The MCSOA Committee

February’s Spotlight Speaker was:

Dr. Chris Bacchi and Marci Silverberg, PT

Dr. Bacchi’s education covers many areas of medical practice, giving her the unique perspective of someone who has studied healthcare from different perspectives. She originally earned her undergraduate degree in nursing, which gave her a warm and non-judgmental bedside manner, and went on to work at The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. She earned a master’s degree in Health and Medical Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and then a medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her residency at Stanford University.