Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 31, 2011: Pathways Through The Transitions of Care for Older Adults

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Peggye Dilworth-Anderson PhD is Professor of Health Policy and Management Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and Interim Co-director UNC Institute on Aging. She is a past President of the Gerontological Society of America (2009-2010). Dr. Dilworth-Anderson is also an appointed member of the National Research Advisory Council for the NIH/NIA and the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Alzheimer's Association. She has received numerous awards for her work; and in 2010 she was the recipient of the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Award for her research on Alzheimer's disease. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and National Council on Family Relations. She currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Alzheimer's & Dementia and Aging and Mental Health. Her publications span three decades.||Mary H. Palmer PhD RNC FAAN is Professor and the Helen W. and Thomas L. Umphlet Distinguished Professor in Aging at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. She is an interim co-director of the UNC Institute on Aging and the project director of a Health Resources and Services Administration Comprehensive Geriatric Education Program grant entitled Improving the Care of Acutely Ill Elders. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and on the Editorial Boards of Geriatric Nursing and Clinical Geriatrics. Dr. Palmer is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing American Geriatrics Society and the Gerontological Society of America. She is the nurse representative to the International Continence Society's Ethics Committee and she serves on the Public Education Committee of the American Geriatrics Society. She is the author of award winning books on urinary continence and a widely published author of book chapters and professional journal articles.