Consensus Conference Participants: Georgia Anetberger, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health Care Administration Program, Cleveland State University; David Bass, PhD, Director of Research, Margaret Blenkner Research Institute, Benjamin Rose; Kathy Brandt, MS, Vice President, Professional Leadership and Consumer and Caregiver Services, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization; Ashly Brooks-Danso, MSW, Co-Director, National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education; Cathy Cope, MSW, Social Science Research Analyst, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Mary Ellen Kullman, MPH, Vice President, Archstone Foundation; Adam W. Darkins, MD, Chief Consultant, Office of Care Coordination, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; *Adrienne Dern, Deputy Director, National Association of Area Agencies On Aging; *Virginia Dize, MS, Associate Director, Home and Community Based Services, National Association of State Units on Aging; Jann Dorman, Director of Elder Care, Kaiser Permanente; Pamela Doty, PhD, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Carol Farquahar, Executive Director, Grantmakers in Aging; *Lynn Friss Feinberg, MSW (Project Director) Deputy Director, National Center on Caregiving, Family Caregiver Alliance; Scott Miyake Geron, PhD, Director and Principal Investigator, Institute for Geriatric Social Work, Boston University; *Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, Director, Center for Applied Research On Aging and Health, Thomas Jefferson University; *Myra Glajchen, DSW, Director, Institute for Education and Research in Pain and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center; *Robyn Golden, MA, LCSW, Director of Older Adult Programs, Rush University Medical Center; Gladys Gonzales-Ramos, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Work, NYU School of Social Work; Rick Greene, MSW, Aging Program Specialist, U.S. Administration on Aging; Nancy Guberman, MSW, Professor, University of Quebec in Montreal; Mary Guthrie, MBA, Acting Director, Center for Planning & Policy Development, U.S. Administration on Aging; Lisa Gwyther, MSW, Director, Duke Aging Center Family Support Program and Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Duke Univesity Medical Center; Hilari Hauptman, MSW, Family and Kinship Caregiver Program Manager, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Aging and Disability Services Administration; Julianne Howell, PhD, Project Officer, Division of Chronic Care Improvement Programs, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Ronda Hughes, PhD, MHS, RN, Senior Health Scientist Administrator, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Gail Hunt, President and CEO, National Alliance for Caregiving; Rosalie Kane, DSW, Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota; Kathy Kelly, MPA, Executive Director, Family Caregiver Alliance; *Carol Levine, MA, Director, Families and Health Care Project, United Hospital Fund; Jane Isaacs Lowe, PhD, Senior Program Officer, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Waverly Lowell, Family Caregiver Consumer Representative; *Katie Maslow, MSW, Associate Director, Quality Care Advocacy, Alzheimer's Association; Donna McDowell, MS, Director, Bureau of Aging and Disability, Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services; Suzanne Mintz, MS, President and Co-Founder, National Family Caregivers Association; Anne Montgomery, MS, Health Policy Associate, Alliance for Health Reform; Rhonda Montgomery, PhD, Helen Bader Endowed Professor of Applied Gerontology and Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Kathy O'Brien, RN, MS, Gerontology Consultant, Metlife Mature Market Institute; Susan Parks, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University; Ginny Paulson, LBSW, Program Manager, Iowa Family Caregiver Program, Iowa Association of Area Agencies on Aging; Cheryl Phillips, MD, Director, Skilled Nursing and Chronic Care, Sutter Health; Carol Raphael, MPA, President and CEO, Visiting Nurse Service of New York; *Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, Professor and Co-Director, Center for State Health Policy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Lisa Rotegard, MA, Supervisor of Home and Community Based Services, Minnesota Department of Human Services; Andrew Scharlach, PhD, Kleiner Professor of Aging; University of California at Berkeley School of Social Welfare; Richard Schulz, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Director, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh; Lorie Simon-Rusinowitz, PhD, Associate Professor, Research Director, Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation Project, University of Maryland Center on Aging; Sarah Sutro Steenhausen, MSG, Assistant Secretary for Long Term Care, California Health and Human Services Agency; Bonnie Teschendorf, PhD, Director, Quality of Life Science Department, American Cancer Society; *Lorie Van Tilburg, LCSW, Executive Director, Southern Caregiver Resource Center; Meg Wallhagen, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California at San Francisco; Carol Whitlatch, PhD, Assistant Director of Research, Margaret Blenkner Research Institute, Benjamin Rose; Jennifer Wolff, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; May L. Wykle, PhD, Dean and Florence Cellar Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University; Steven H. Zarit, PhD, Professor of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University
*Members of the Project Advisory Committee