AM2022 Disability Rights Committee

Topics to be Included:

• Lived Experience of Dementia: Paradigms of Dementia Care and Legal and Ethical Issues in Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Decision Making – Policy, Practice and Research Implications
• Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Supported Decision Making
• Dementia Care Challenges in Long Term Care Systems, Reforms, and Workforce and Community Education and Training

Speakers

Mary Beth Morrissey, Esq., PhD, MPH, Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work, New York, NY

Bruce Jennings, MA, Vanderbilt Medical Center for Bioethics, Nashville, Tennessee

Tia Powell, MD, Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics, Bronx, NY

Jenny Logan, Esq., Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, New York, NY

Sheila E. Shea, Esq., Mental Hygiene Legal Service, Albany, NY

Thomas Caprio, MD, Director, Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center, University of Rochester Medical Center

Joseph J. Ranni, Esq., Ranni Law Firm, Florida, NY

Denise Lawson, Calvary Hospital Pastoral Care, Clinical Pastoral Education Program, Bronx, NY