Marilyn Gugliucci gives four presentations at Gerontological Society of America annual meeting
Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D., recently returned from conducting four presentations on various research and education projects at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 68th Annual Scientific Meeting in Orland, Florida.
Gugliucci was the convening faculty chair and one of the presenters in the Symposium, “Travels and Travails of Gerontology Education Accreditation: If It Were So.” She was joined by co-faculty Donna Weinreich of Western Michigan University, Robert Maiden of Alfred University, Donna Schafer of the National Association of Professional Gerontologists and Session Discussant Robert Knight of Queensland University in Australia.
Gugliucci and two emerging scholars, Candace Brown, Ph.D. candidate, and Lin (Helen) Jiang, recent doctoral program graduate, also presided over a special grant funded session on mentorship. The session was titled, “The Mentoring Switch: Two-Way Mentorship Program.” In this session 12 senior scholars, many of whom were former presidents or held leadership positions for the GSA, participated as mentees while emerging scholars, many of them doctoral students, acted as mentors. This 90-minute session was support by a grant from the GSA Mentoring Effect.
The third presentation was an international paper session in which Gugliucci served as session chair and also presented her research titled, “Hospice Home Immersion Project: Advancing Medical Education.” The co-authors cited in Gugliucci’ s presentation were Himanshu Malhotra, Andrea Gaul, Caitlin Farrell, Kelly McVan, Natasha Tobarran and Taylor Byrne. Other papers in the session focused on end of life and palliative care issues in Ireland, Canada, and Australia.
The last presentation, “Balancing Act: Correlates of Gait and Balance in Older Adults with Vision Impairments,” was included in the late breaker poster session as the data analysis from this NIH Grant was completed after the abstract deadline. Presenting authors were Gugliucci and Jennifer Crittenden of the UMaine Center on Aging. The research co-authors were Anne Cowles, Lenard W. Kaye, David C. Wihry and Jennifer Middleton.