Person-Centered Care: Reforming Services and Bringing Older Citizens Back to the Heart of Society

July 23, 2008

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Statements of Committee Members

  • Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), Chairman
  • Senator Gordon H. Smith (R-OR), Ranking Member
  • Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA), Committee Member

    • Witness Testimony
      William Thomas, MD, Professor, Erickson School of Aging Studies, University of Maryland, Ithaca, NY

      Robert Jenkens, Director, Green House Project, NCB Capital Impact, Arlington, VA

      Melinda Abrams, M.S., Assistant Vice President, Patient-Centered Primary Care, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY

      Eric Coleman, MD, MPH, Director, Care Transitions Program, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO

      Zoe Holland, Daughter of a former Green House resident, Lincoln, NE

      Edna Hess, Shahbaz, Lebanon Valley Brethren Home, Palmyra, PA

      Diane White, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Institute on Aging, Portland State University, Portland, OR