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Michael S. Marcus currently serves as Program Director for Older Adult Services at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, http://www.hjweinbergfoundation.org, one of the largest private foundations in North America, and the second largest funder in the field of aging in the US. The foundation provides support through operating, program and capital grants to nonprofit organizations focusing on those living in poverty, especially older adults.

Between 1983 and 1990 Michael was the Associate Director for Community Resources at a national foundation based in Washington and Boston that funded advocacy programs run by and for older adults. Michael then served as senior program officer for the Chicago Community Trust from 1990 to 2004, where his area of responsibility was basic human needs, which included aging, welfare-to-work, homelessness and food security, among other areas.

Prior to The Weinberg Foundation, Michael was principal of Consultants for Community Resources, a Chicago-based organization that provided advocacy and consultation in the areas of aging, poverty and community development. CCR applied an asset-based approach to its projects, which included work with rural, urban and suburban counties seeking ways to use the gifts of its older adult citizens, with colleges and universities looking for new ways to effectively build an asset-based community and with social service agencies working to overcome their needs based approach to service delivery. While at CCR Michael served as a faculty member of the Leadership Practice.

Michael is a graduate of George Washington University, has an MSW from the University of Maryland School of Social Work, where he currently teaches, and has done PhD work at the Florence Heller School for Social Welfare Policy, Center on Aging, at Brandeis University.

Besides the University of Maryland, Michael has also taught at Springfield College, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Illinois Institute of Technology and Northwestern University, where he continues to serve as a national faculty member of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute.

Michael is a founder and a past board member of Grantmakers in Aging, as well as a board member of the American Society on Aging, Generations United and Generations on Line. He has also been a member of many public commissions and panels.

Originally aired on Caregiver SOS: On Air presented by the WellMed Charitable Foundation on May 10, 2015 in San Antonio, TX on 930 AM KLUP “The Answer.” With co-hosts Carol Zernial and Ron Aaron.

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Richard Eisenberg is Assistant Managing Editor of PBS's Nextavenue.org, a site for people 50+. He is also the editor of the site's Money & Security and Work & Purpose channels and writes often about the financial aspects of caregiving and long-term care. He was formerly Executive Editor of Money Magazine, Front Page Finance Editor of Yahoo! and Special Projects Director/Money Editor at Good Housekeeping. He is the author of two books: How to Avoid a Midlife Financial Crisis and The Money Book of Personal Finance. He was a Retirement Fellow with the National Press Foundation and is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in New Jersey.

About Next Avenue

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Originally aired on Caregiver SOS: On Air presented by the WellMed Charitable Foundation on May 3, 2015 in San Antonio, TX on 930 AM KLUP “The Answer.” With co-hosts Carol Zernial and Ron Aaron.

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Jill is also a Board Member for USAgainstAlzheimer's. Jill is an intergenerational caregiver; she helps care for her mother who has Alzheimer’s while also raising her school age children.

The WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s Network (WA2) is the powerful, united voice of women who bear the major burden of the Alzheimer’s crisis. We arm women with the information and easy-to-use connections needed to be heard in Washington, in state capitals, and to communicate with industry leaders and the research community. Our goal is to facilitate a network of women who inspire and learn from each other and to steer the energy of women towards advocacy efforts that advance our national commitment to ending Alzheimer’s.

The WomenAgainstAlzheimer's Network is part of the USAgainstAlzheimer’s Network organization which has a bold attitude and agile operating model driven by results. We are mad as hell about the current sluggish ‘business as usual’ pace of Alzheimer’s progress and we intend to be a disruptive force against the status quo. Our theory of change is rooted in the strong belief that we, the American people, can create the national will to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s. We will do this by pressuring our political, business and scientific leaders to mobilize the necessary resources and system reforms to accelerate laboratory discoveries to those with Alzheimer’s or at risk for the disease in the future.

Our Goals

· Challenge policymakers and the research community to move away from business as usual to collaborate, to innovate, and to forge ahead in new and previously unforeseen ways to reach for a cure.

· Spotlight the unfair impact of Alzheimer’s on women – as patients, caregivers, children and grandchildren – and the urgent need for a new approach.

· Spark a movement of engaged and enraged women who are no longer willing to sit back and wait but are called to action by a disease likely to impact more than eight million people in the next decade, more than 60% of whom are women.

· Marshall an army of women advocates in Washington and state capitals, and throughout the industry and the research community.

· Educate lawmakers and the general public about the prevalence of the disease, it's particularly cruel burden on women and the resulting costs to our society.

To learn more visit www.usagainstalzheimers.org/networks/women

Originally aired on Caregiver SOS: On Air presented by the WellMed Charitable Foundation on April 26, 2015 in San Antonio, TX on 930 AM KLUP “The Answer.” With co-hosts Carol Zernial and Ron Aaron.

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