The Encyclopedia of Elder Care: The Comprehensive Resource on Geriatric and Social Care, Second Edition

Eugenia Siegler, MD, is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College and the Medical Director of the Geriatrics Inpatient Service at the Weill/Cornell Campus of the New York Presbyterian Hospital, and serves on theMEDCOMedicare PartDP&T Committee. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Bellevue and Tisch Hospitals and a Fellowship in Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She has served as a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and as Chief of Geriatrics at Brooklyn Hospital Center.

Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN, ARNP-BC, FAAN, is an Associate Professor at New York University College of Nursing. She also serves as Co-director for the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University, where she directs the Nurses Improving the Care of Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) and the Geriatric Nursing Research Scholars programs. Dr. Capezuti received her doctoral degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and is a nationally certified Geriatric Nurse Practitioner. She also was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing from 1984 through 2000, where she received the 1995 Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching. From 2000 to 2003, she held the Independence Foundation Wesley Woods Chair in Gerontologic Nursing at Emory University. Dr. Capezuti's program of research focuses on the development and testing of interventions aimed at improving care of frail older adults. Findings from her research have been used to draft both state legislation and federal regulations related to nursing home care. She serves on several national boards and has been a consultant to the Hospital Bed Safety Workgroup of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Dr. Capezuti has published extensively in the areas of fall prevention, restraint and side-rail elimination, elder mistreatment, and legal liability issues. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Mathy Mezey, EdD, EN, FAAN, is Professor and Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing. Dr. Mezey's distinguished career has focused on raising the standards of nurses caring for older adults and ensuring that people age in comfort and with dignity. Dr. Mezey received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing from Columbia University. In New York City, she worked for The Visiting Nurse Service of New York and taught at Lehman College, CUNY. From 1981 to 1991, Dr. Mezey was a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directed the geriatric nurse practitioner program and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Teaching Nursing Home Program. Since 1996, Dr. Mezey has directed the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing in the NYU College of Nursing. In this position, she oversees a national initiative to improve geriatric nursing. Dr. Mezey has a long-standing interest in bioethics research and education. Her research examines the decision-making capacity of older adults to execute a health care proxy and the factors influencing the transfer of nursing residents to hospitals at the end of life. Dr. Mezey is the author of 11 books and more than 100 chapters and articles. Among her many awards, Dr. Mezey has twice received the Geriatric Book-of-the- Year Award by the American Journal of Nursing. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America, and the New York Academy of Medicine.