{"id":61867,"date":"2011-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/thewlis-lecture-to-focus-on-negotiating-health-care-for-elderly-april-20\/"},"modified":"2011-04-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T00:00:00","slug":"thewlis-lecture-to-focus-on-negotiating-health-care-for-elderly-april-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/thewlis-lecture-to-focus-on-negotiating-health-care-for-elderly-april-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Thewlis Lecture to focus on negotiating health care for elderly, April 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 8, 2011 \u2013 How can we best negotiate health as we age? This is the question Mathy Mezey will answer as the featured presenter for the Rhode Island Geriatric Center\u2019s sixth annual Malford Thewlis Lecture at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Wednesday, April 20.<\/p>\n


\nMezey is professor emeritus, senior research associate and director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at the New York University College of Nursing. She will present \u201cComing of Age: Negotiating Health and Health Care as We Age\u201d in Edwards Auditorium at 3 p.m. In her lecture, Mezey will discuss how self care, exercising, eating well, maintaining meaningful relationships, knowing what to expect from and how to use the health care system all can have a profound influence on our health. <\/p>\n


\nThe lecture is free and open to the public. A reception following the event will be held in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Alumni Center on Upper College Road. <\/p>\n


\nMezey\u2019s research and writing focus is on geriatric nursing education and quality of care for older people. She has authored numerous books and publications relating to nursing practice with older adults and bioethical issues that effect end-of-life decisions. She is Co-Editor of Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice and The Encyclopedia of Elder Care.<\/p>\n


\nA Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, Mezey received the Kent Award and Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award from the Gerontological Society of America. She also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Gerontological Nursing Association and was the first nurse to receive the American Geriatrics Society Nascher-Manning Award.<\/p>\n


\nThe annual lecture is named for Malford Thewlis, one of the founders of the American Geriatrics Society in 1942. A former resident of Wakefield, Dr. Thewlis wrote The Care of the Aged: Geriatrics, a 1919 textbook on geriatric medicine. <\/p>\n


\nThis program is sponsored by the Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Program in Gerontology, the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Human Science and Services, the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Nursing, and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences: SNAP-Ed Program.<\/p>\n


\nFor more information, visit the Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center website or call 401.874.5311 for information regarding parking and directions. Download a flyer<\/a> about this lecture.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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