2019 GGS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
GGS BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF
Moving Forward Together:
Linking Research, Policy, Practice
Legacy Lodge and Conference Center
7000 Lanier Islands Parkway
Buford, GA 30518
April 11 – April 14, 2018
Conference Program
Thank You Sponsors!
The Georgia Gerontology Society would like to thank our sponsors for making this year’s annual meeting possible through their participation and generosity.
Premier Sponsor
Georgia State University
The Gerontology Institute at GSU is leading the way in an aging society. Through research, practice, and service our faculty and students are making a difference in this growing field.
Gold Plus Sponsors
Georgia State University – Research
Georgia State is among the nation’s leading major research universities.
Gold Sponsor
Riverside Center for Excellence in Aging and Lifelong Health
The Riverside Center for Excellence in Aging and Lifelong Health (CEALH) was incorporated in 2002 under the guidance of The Crossroads Group. This group was a collaboration between community and government organizations that had identified a gap in the conversion of research into application for the older adult population.
Silver Plus Sponsors
ComForCare
ComForCare’s commitment to quality care begins with our compassionate and proactive approach to care. This process begins with identifying clients’ and families’ unique needs, creating a patient-centered care plan, coordinating with physicians and other providers, and implementing quality assurance throughout the duration of care.
Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving
The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving establishes local, state, national, and international partnerships committed to building quality, long-term, home and community-based services. We believe this begins with providing caregivers with effective supports to promote caregiver health, skills and resilience. We also believe strongly in the need to provide greater recognition for professional and family caregivers. We focus on helping caregivers coping with chronic illness and disability across the lifespan.
Silver Sponsors
VCU – Virginia Center on Aging
We are a statewide agency created by the Virginia General Assembly, with our home at Virginia Commonwealth University in the School of Allied Health Professions. For more than 30 years, VCoA has worked to protect and improve the quality of life of older Virginians, so that they might remain interdependent and contributing members to life in Virginia.
RelyFy
RelyFy is founded with a mission to serve those who are vulnerable because of age or health conditions and deserve dignity and confidence at their place of living. We can’t do it by ourselves only. Hence, we empower care professionals and entrepreneurs in local communities with best in class technologies. We provide technology, they provide healing touch and together we realize the best of both worlds – high tech with high touch.
The Holbrook
At The Holbrook, we believe in living life with passion, purpose and possibilities. We are creating an experience like no other – where people can actively engage their passion for living the life they always wanted.
Bronze Sponsors
Tele-Savvy
Tele-Savvy is a training program for caregivers and it is offered entirely online, so caregivers don’t have to travel or make other arrangements in order to take part. This project is conducted by Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.
Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency
The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency operates five integrated and interdependent statutory programs that share a primary goal – to help people with disabilities to become fully productive members of society by achieving independence and meaningful employment. The largest of the programs are Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Program, Disability Adjudication Services, and Roosevelt Warm Springs/Cave Spring Center. Two other unique programs serve consumers with visual impairments: the Business Enterprise Program and Georgia Industries for the Blind.
Alliant Quality
Alliant Quality is the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Georgia and North Carolina. Alliant Health Solutions companies are making health care better in seven states.
Mom’s Meals
Mom’s Meals is a leading national provider of refrigerated, home-delivered meals and nutrition services for individuals desiring convenience or independent living and for patients recuperating at home or managing a chronic disease.
Georgia Council On Aging
The Council’s Mission:
~ Advocate with and on behalf of aging Georgians and their families to improve their quality of life.
~ Educate, advise, inform and make recommendations concerning programs for the elderly in Georgia.
~ Serve in an advisory capacity on aging issues to the Governor, General Assembly, Department of Human Services and all other state agencies.
Music & Memory
MUSIC & MEMORY® is a non-profit organization that brings personalized music into the lives of the elderly or infirm through digital music technology, vastly improving quality of life.
Music & Memory
The American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA) is the only national membership organization representing the interests and needs of therapeutic recreation specialists, also known as recreation therapists. Recreation therapists are healthcare providers who plan, direct, deliver, and evaluate recreation-based interventions for individuals with illnesses and/or disabling conditions. They provide research-informed interventions that are based on client assessments and targeted client outcomes.
Bag Sponsor
Golden Gourmet
To Golden Gourmet, it’s not just another case of product, another shipment, and another dollar. We understand that food is an opportunity for dignity, enhanced well-being, comfort, good health and overall happiness. Home Delivered Meal programs, Healthcare, Emergency Meals… We call our approach “Culinary Care.”