Boomers Today

Ronnie Genser founded Bereavement Navigators to help widows, widowers, adult children, and other relatives who have lost a loved one, in hopes that her knowledge will make this process and the journey ahead easier for them.

Susan Miedzianowski, PhD, CPC, CSA, has more than 45 years of experience in the healthcare industry, and in her educator role focuses on the philosophy that education should always be a fun, experiential, empowering and meaningful process. Susan received her PhD in Human Services at the age of 63.

Vickie Dellaquila is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Organization Rules®, a company specializing in residential organizing, working with the chronically disorganized, senior downsizing, move management services and clients who have issues with hoarding.

Debbie Rosas is the creator and co-founder of the global fitness and lifestyle practice, Nia, which is based upon The Body’s Way: a system used to live, move and feel great at any age. She is the author of The Nia Technique and Non-Impact Aerobics. Her work is featured in over 800 publications and used by over 65,000 people weekly in over 51 countries, taught by 2600 teachers.

Martin Pazzani is the Founder of Act!vate Brain & Body, a revolutionary approach to fitness for the baby boomer generation that is focused on radically improving the trajectory of aging to enable people to live happier, healthier, and longer lives. Check out Martin's run up the Empire State Building to raise funds for the Challenged Athletes Foundation at http://goo.gl/ME92eh

Gloria Bernard has been designing residential and commercial interiors for over 35 years. She brings her expertise, style and passion to support aging with dignity.

Gloria is also a college instructor for Interior Design. This keeps her current with today’s trends, technology, and social issues that affect seniors.

Valerie Richards is a certified Advance Care Planning Facilitator, family coach and educator to improve understanding and interactions with the person with dementia.

Rachelle Lavalier has worked in various roles in Senior Care throughout the years, including some therapeutic approaches there were to treating Alzheimer’s and other forms of Dementia. She took that knowledge into sales and marketing and currently works in that role at Brookdale Senior Living, a Specialized Alzheimer’s and Dementia care community.

Trisha Torrey is an author, speaker, and patient advocacy consultant. With a background prior to her advocacy work in teaching and marketing, in 2009 Trisha founded AdvoConnection.com, a directory that helps patients and caregivers find private patient advocates who can help them get the good healthcare they deserve. She discusses patient advocacy and the future of our health care system.

Olivia Mastry is the founding partner of The Collective Action Lab, a unique collaborative forum that fosters cross-sector, systems and social change in the health, older adult service and disability arenas. As part of her work, Olivia is guiding Dementia national collaboration involving public and private Friendly America (DFA), a national collaboration
organizations seeking to foster dementia friendly involving over 50 public and private organizations communities across the U.S.