Spring Matter of Balance workshops begin Friday, March 29, 2024.

Fillmore Gardens
802 N. 22nd Place
Phoenix, Arizona 85006
Phone: 602.495.5701
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Spring Matter of Balance workshops begin Friday, March 29, 2024.

Granite Reef Senior Center
1700 N. Granite Reef Road
Scottsdale, Arizona 85257
Phone: 480.312.1700
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Via Linda Senior Center
10440 E. Via Linda
Scottsdale, Arizona 85258
Phone: 480.312.5810
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Spring Matter of Balance workshops begin Friday, March 29, 2024.

DOBSON RANCH
2719 S. Reyes
Mesa, Arizona 85202
Phone: 480.831.7464
Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Please note this class will begin Friday, April 5, 2024.

PYLE ADULT RECREATION CENTER
655 E. Southern
Tempe, Arizona 85282
Phone: 480.350.5211
Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Spring Matter of Balance workshops begin Friday, March 29,2024.

St. Joseph's Westgate Medical Center
7300 N 99th Ave
Glendale, Arizona 85305
Phone: 602.406.0175
Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

ArchWell Health - Peoria
9750 W Peoria Ave, Ste 120
Peoria, Arizona 85345
Phone: 623.281.1130
Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

ArchWell Health - Sun City
10050 W Bell Rd, Ste 35
Sun City, Arizona 85351
Phone: 623.281.1130
Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Banner Boswell
Warren D. Ruff Education Center
10401 W Thunderbird Blvd
Sun City, Arizona 85351
Phone: 623.832.9158
Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Royal Oaks Retirement Community
10015 W Royal Oak Rd
Sun City, Arizona 85351
Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

2023 Speaker: Amanda E. Sokan, PhD, MHA, LLB
Presenting: Elder Abuse and Mistreatment: What you should know, why you should care, and what you CAN do about it.

Dr. Amanda Sokan is assistant professor of practice and co-program director in the Division of Public Health Practice & Translational Science, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, and research assistant professor, internal medicine (geriatrics), COM-Phoenix. She holds a PhD in gerontology and master’s degree in healthcare administration from the University of Kentucky and a law degree (LLB) from the University of Buckingham, England. Her professional experience is diverse and includes faculty positions and administrative appointments in both gerontology and healthcare administration, program evaluation, consultancy work on aging issues, personnel management/development, workplace culture, as well as clinical and translational research administration. In 2020, Dr. Sokan received the Gerontologist of the Year award from the Arizona Geriatrics Society. Her interests straddle the nexus of gerontology, healthcare, and law, including elder rights and justice, elder abuse and mistreatment, cultural competence, LGBTQ+ aging, long-term care, aging and healthcare navigation, health promotion and well-being, provider relationships, and workforce planning and development. Dr. Sokan considers herself an applied gerontologist and is passionate about engaging with older adults, advocacy, teaching, and mentorship. She enjoys traveling, gastronomy, performing and literal arts, and people. Dr. Sokan also facilitates ACE 2 Women, an empowerment group for minority women professionals, and provides volunteer services (consultation, support, practical guidance) on agingrelated issues including elder mistreatment, dementia-related caregiving, and optimized aging.

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2022 Speaker: Cara Wallace, PhD, LMSW, APHSW-C
Presenting: Connecting Personal and Professional: A Narrative Medicine Approach

Cara Wallace, PhD, LMSW, APHSW-C is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Saint Louis University. Her research focuses on issues related to end-of-life care within three related areas: (1) barriers to care; (2) quality of care; and (3) educating students, professionals, and the general population to face issues surrounding death, illness, loss, and grief. She teaches Values and Ethics and direct practice courses related to end-of-life, aging, and healthcare. Dr. Wallace's research and teaching are informed by years of practice experience in hospice and hospital system. She has more than twenty-five peer-reviewed publications in journals such as the Journal of Palliative Medicine, Palliative and Supportive Care, & JAMDA, among others, and has received NIH funding through the National Institute of Nursing Research. She serves on multiple local and national end-of-life and aging-focused boards and was selected as a 2020 recipient of the Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program. Also in 2020, she received the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network’s (SWHPN) Award for Excellence in Psychosocial Research.

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2021 Speaker: Amanda Shelley, MPAS, PA-C, '05
Presenting: Telemedicine in the Post-Covid World

Amanda Shelley, MPAS, PA-C, ’05 is a physician assistant (PA) and A.T. Still University-Arizona School of Health Sciences alumna. She is Virtual Medical Director, One Medical President, PAs in Virtual Medicine and Telemedicine. An Arizona native, Shelley continues to serve the population there, working in pediatrics, urgent care, geriatrics, and primary care. She sees patients exclusively via telemedicine and leads a team of PAs and nurse practitioners. For five years, she has served as virtual medical director for the Phoenix market at One Medical, a multistate primary care group. Shelley is president and co-founder of PAs in Virtual Medicine and Telemedicine (PAVMT). PAVMT represents PAs practicing in the growing field of virtual care and telemedicine and is the only national organization focused exclusively on expanding PA representation in this area of healthcare. Representing over 6,000 constituents, PAVMT has achieved caucus status with the American Academy of Physician Assistants. With an interest in legislative advocacy, Shelley has represented PAs at state and national levels. She spoke to the Federation of State Medical Boards in fall 2019 about the need for PA license portability. In addition, she has collaborated with large companies to open new opportunities for PAs.

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2020 Speaker: Marla Berg-Weger, PhD, LCSW
Presenting: Awareness and empathy in reducing social isolation associated with age-related changes

Marla Berg-Weger, Ph.D., LCSW, is a Professor at the Saint Louis University School of Social Work and Executive Director, Saint Louis University School of Medicine Geriatric Education Center. Her social work degrees were completed at Kansas State University, University of Kansas, and Washington University. Her scholarship has focused on aging, family caregiving and social work practice. She has authored four books and 100 book chapters, journal articles, and scholarly publications. Her primary areas of research include family caregiving, cognitive stimulation therapy, and driving and mobility with social isolation and loneliness being a recent area of focus.

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2019 Speaker: Renee J. Flores, MD
Presenting: Sexual Medicine: Patient Centered Care for Older Adults- a Multidisciplinary Approach

Renee J. Flores, MD, is a geriatrician who is board certified in internal medicine, geriatrics, and hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Flores is a clinical assistant professor at University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) in Houston, Texas, and oversees medical education for learners in medical school, residency, and geriatric fellowship training. She graduated from St. Matthew’s University Medical School and completed post-graduate work in sexuality counseling and sexuality education at the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Flores was a recipient of an International Society for Sexual Medicine scholarship and completed postgraduate work in sexual medicine at the European Society of Sexual Medicine in Budapest, Hungary. Her work at the Sexual Health Clinic at the Center for Healthy Aging in Houston includes providing sexual health and counseling services to the older adult population. She recognizes sexual health is a salient part of comprehensive healthcare and works in collaboration with patients to address sexual desire, pain, performance, and relationship challenges. She has been recognized with the UTHealth McGovern Medical School Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award for her devotion to lifelong learning and education.

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2018 Speaker: Kathleen A. Cameron, MPH
Presenting: Emerging Issues in Community Integrated Health Care for Seniors

Kathleen A. Cameron has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare field as a pharmacist, researcher and program director focusing on all aspects of healthy aging, including falls prevention, geriatric pharmacotherapy, behavioral health, long-term services and supports, and caregiving. Ms. Cameron is currently senior director, for the Center for Healthy Aging at the National Council on Aging (NCOA) where she oversees the Administration on Aging-funded National Falls Prevention Resource Center and National Chronic Disease Self-Management Education (CDSME) Resource Center. The focus of this work is to support the expansion and sustainability of evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention programs in the community and online through collaboration with national, state, and community partners.

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2017 Speaker: Barbara E. Weinstein, PhD
Presenting: Age related hearing loss really matters: Dementia and other reasons your patients should be referred

A leader in the field of geriatric audiology, Barbara E. Weinstein, PhD, MPhil, MA, has developed several of the most widely used tools to identify patients with hearing loss, the Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults and the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly [HHIE] among others. The Hearing Handicap Inventory has been translated into over twenty languages and is used globally to document negative health effects associated with hearing loss.

Dr. Weinstein authored the text, Geriatric Audiology, and published research on the social factors associated with hearing loss, hearing aid use and hearing and dementia. An accomplished and award-winning clinician and educator, Dr. Weinstein founded and directed the doctoral program in audiology at the City College of New York. She is the founding executive officer of doctoral programs in public health, nursing science and physical therapy at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Dr. Weinstein is an advocate for the integration of hearing healthcare into mainstream medical care. Her work in the field of audiology promotes the need for inter-disciplinary management of older adults with hearing loss. She firmly believes that the ability to hear and communicate is critical to the delivery of person-centered care.

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2016 Speakers: Milta Little, DO, Janice Lundy, BSW, MA, MHA, and Debbie Hayden, RN, BSN, OTR/L
Presenting: Making a difference: Cognitive stimulation therapy

Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is an evidence-based therapy that was designed for people with mild to moderate dementia. CST is a straightforward therapy program designed to connect people with dementia to one another whether that is the caregiver in a facility, family member, or volunteer. The program is person-centered with the intent to recognize the challenges that accompany the loss of memory, respect each individual’s cultural and religious background, and involve and include each member of the group.

Milta Little, DO, earned her medical degree in 2006 from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and in 2009 she completed an internal medicine residency at St. Mary’s Health Care Center in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Little completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in 2010 and continues her work with the university as an associate professor and program director.

Dr. Little has been practicing medicine for the past ten years in the St. Louis area and is actively involved with the Geriatric Education Center affiliated with Saint Louis University. Her areas of interest are chronic disease management, delirium, dementia, end-of-life care, geriatric assessment, and hospice.

Dr. Little has authored or co-authored eleven publications and has been recognized as an outstanding physician by Best Doctors, Inc. since 2013.

Janice Lundy, MA, MHA, BSW, is geriatric social work specialist with more than 28 years of experience in a rural critical access hospital and associated rural health clinic. Along with a social work degree, she holds a master’s degree in gerontology and a master of healthcare administration. She is currently the director of social work and geriatric care management at Perry County Memorial Hospital (PCMH). She was instrumental in bringing Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) to PCMH. Ms. Lundy is the CST program manager and group co-facilitator. In addition, she practices some individual CST.

Debbie Hayden, RN, BSN, OTR/L, has a bachelor’s of science degree in nursing and a second bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from Saint Louis University. She is currently the director of occupational therapy at Perry County Memorial Hospital (PCMH). Her focus in occupational therapy has been in pediatric, adult, outpatient and inpatient hospital rehabilitation. She is a CST program co-facilitator and assistant program manager at PCMH.

Ms. Lundy and Ms. Hayden were trained in the techniques and principles of delivering CST by Amiee Spector, PhD, researcher and CST developer at the University College London. They are currently under contract with Dr. Spector as CST trainers for the United States. They are working with Dr. John Morley and his colleagues at Saint Louis University Geriatric Education Center and ATSU on a CST education team.

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2015 Speaker: Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD
Presenting: Sleep and Aging: Helping Elders Get a Good Night's Sleep

Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD, is a professor emeritus and professor of research in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, director of the Gillin Sleep and Chronomedicine Research Center, and director of education at the Sleep Medicine Center at UCSD.

Dr. Ancoli-Israel received her bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York-Stony Brook and master’s degree in psychology from California State University-Long Beach. She received her doctorate in psychology from the University of California-San Francisco.

Her expertise is in the field of sleep disorders and sleep research in aging adults. Her current work includes the longitudinal effect of sleep disorders on aging, the effect of circadian rhythms on sleep, therapeutic interventions for sleep problems in dementia, and fatigue - particularly the relationship between sleep, fatigue, and circadian rhythms in cancer and chronic illnesses.

Dr. Ancoli-Israel is past president of the Sleep Research Society and Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms. Additionally, she was a founding executive board member of the National Sleep Foundation (NSF).

She has been honored with numerous awards including NSF’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), SRS’ Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award (2007), the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine’s Distinguished Career Award (2012), and SRS’ Distinguished Scientist Award (2014).

Dr. Ancoli-Israel publishes regularly in medical and psychiatric journals with more than 400 publications in the field to date.

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2014 Speaker: Joseph Flaherty, MD
Presenting: So Many Drugs, So Little Time

Joseph Flaherty, MD, is the co-director of the fellowship program for the division of Geriatrics at Saint Louis University, the co-medical director of the palliative care consult service at Saint Louis University Hospital, the medical director of theAcute Care for ElderlyUnit with its delirium room at Des Peres Tenet Hospital, and the medical director of Bethesda Dilworth nursing home.

His areas of interest and publication include hospital care of elderly patients, especially delirium; palliative and end of life care; medication use among older persons; and longevity research among Chinese nonagenarians and centenarians in collaboration with Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.

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2013 Speaker: Andrea Sherman, PhD
Presenting: Creativity: the critical link in person-centered care

Andrea Sherman, PhD, joined the National Center for Creative Aging as a senior curriculum director and consults for the Washington D.C. area Geriatric Education Center Consortium. She trains and presents nationally at numerous meetings and has published in the areas of caregiving, long-term care, geriatric emergency preparedness and response, creativity and aging, rituals in the second-half of life, intergenerational relations, the arts and older Americans, and lifelong learning.

Dr. Sherman is the co-founder and author of Transitional Keys and created rituals that span the lifecycle from birth to dying.

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2012 Speaker: Crista Hojlo, PhD, RN, NHA
Presenting: Caring for the aging: options, opportunities, and outcomes

Crista Hojlo, PhD, RN, NHA, is the director, VA Community Living Centers & Director, State Veterans Home Clinical and Survey Oversight Program, Department of Veterans Affairs Central, Washington, D.C. Dr. Hojlo is a registered nurse and nurse practitioner with extensive experience as a clinician, educator, administrator, lecturer, and leader in various aspects of the healthcare delivery system. She has served on several hospital boards of trustees and two corporate boards of directors for large national not-for-profit health systems. She also served as the VHA liaison on the professional technical advisor board for long term care for the joint commission and is active in several professional organizations.

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2011 Speakers: Roy Yaari, MD, MAS and Helle Brand, PA
Presenting: Alzheimer's

Roy Yaari, MD, MAS, is the associate director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix, Ariz. Dr. Yaari is a clinical associate professor of neurology at the University of Arizona, and is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Arizona Neurological Society. He is actively engaged in multiple clinical trials testing new drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

Helle Brand is a physician assistant focusing on the “whole person experience” treating the body, mind and soul of patients at Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix, Ariz. Helle has an interest in education and counseling related to dementia, looking at both the effect of dementia on patient’s daily functioning and effects on the extended family.

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2010 Speaker: Paul R. Willging, PhD
Presenting: Chaos or Coordination: The Choice Is Ours

Paul R. Willging, PhD, served as president and CEO of the American Health Care Association, the Assisted Living Federation of America after serving as an officer with Blue Cross / Blue Shield of greater New York. He held senior positions in the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services) where he oversaw both the Medicare and Medicaid programs. His career continued with faculty assignments to the John Hopkins Center on Health and Aging, and the University’s School of Medicine. At the community level, he was an active member of the Howard County Commission on Aging and contributed leadership to the Aging in Place Advisory Committee of the Howard County Office on Aging and the Partners Group co-directed by the Office on Aging and the Horizon Foundation.

Dr. Willging passed away in May 2011 following more than thirty five years of extensive experience in health care management as a practitioner, teacher, and policy maker.

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2009 Speaker: Dorothy Baker, RN/APN, PhD
Presenting: From the halls of ivy to the kitchen table: moving evidence-based falls prevention into practice

Dorothy Baker, RN/APN, PhD, is a research scientist / scholar in internal medicine/geriatrics at Yale University School of Medicine. She is a nurse practitioner with a background in outpatient and home care settings. She has over two decades of experience conducting community-based research on topics that include fall prevention. She was an investigator on Yale FICSIT, Yale HIP, Project Independence and currently directs the Connecticut Collaboration for Fall Prevention, Step by Step and the Hospital Elder Life Program Dissemination projects. Dr. Baker is an author on multiple publications regarding falls and the prevention of functional decline among community dwelling older adults.

2008 Speaker: Sue Levkoff, MSW, SM, ScD
Presenting: Integration of mental health services for older adults with primary care

Sue Levkoff, MSW, SM, ScD, is an associate professor in psychiatry for the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and associate professor, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Levkoff has served as director for the Harvard Upper New England Geriatric Education Center and principal investigator and project director for a SAMHSA-funded multi-site randomized trial on primary care research in substance abuse and mental health for the elderly. In addition, she served as director of the SAMHSA funded Positive Aging Research Center, a technical assistance and education center for evidence-based behavioral healthcare for older adults. Dr. Levkoff was the recipient of a five-year NIA Special Emphasis Research Career Award that focused on reducing excess disabilities in elderly patients with cognitive impairments. Dr. Levkoff served as principal investigator of NIA’s Exploratory Center Grant and received a NIA-supported Leadership Award to develop a Center of Excellence on Minority Aging.

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2007 Speaker: Elizabeth Protas, PhD
Presenting: Interdisciplinary care for elders

Elizabeth Protas, PhD, has published over 50 manuscripts and book chapters. Her research and clinical interests focus on exercise, aging and physiological responses to exercise of individuals with chronic disabilities, particularly individuals who have had a stroke or Parkinson’s disease. She was an investigator with the Veteran’s Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Center of Excellence on Healthy Living with Disabilities and the Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center. In 2007, the Council of Aging and Adult Development of the American Association for Active Lifestyles and Fitness awarded Dr. Protas the Herbert H. DeVries Award for Distinguished Research in the Field of Aging. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston College of Nursing awarded the Joseph C. Valley Gerontological Professional of the Year to Dr. Protas in 2000.

2006 Speaker: John Morley, MB, BCh
Presenting: Geriatric research and implication for care practice

John Morley, MB, BCh, is dammert professor of gerontology at Saint Louis University Medical School and director of the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the St. Louis V.A. Medical Center. Dr. Morley is the author of numerous papers and 14 texts, including “Geriatric Nutrition”, Second Edition (1995), “Memory Function and Aging Related Disorders” (1992), “Medical Care in the Nursing Home”, Second Edition (1996), “Frailty in Older Individuals” (1993), and “As We Age” (1996). In 1990, he was included among the 100 Most-Cited Scientists in the World from 1981-1988. Dr. Morley’s current research topics include memory function, nutrition, and endocrinology of the elderly.

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2005 Speaker: Michael Creedon, DSW
Presenting: The challenge of aging society for a health science

Michael Creedon, DSW, was the chairman of ATSU’s Aging Studies Project from to (dates).The annual lecture on aging series was named in his honor after his passing in (date). He served as professor of geriatric health management at ATSU and as the chairman of the master’s program in geriatric health management in COGS. Dr. Creedon held a permanent appointment as visiting professor of gerontology and social work at the National University of Ireland at Cork. He was founding coordinator of the Odyssey Certificate on Aging Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University (1995-2005), and chairman of the Advisory Board for the Program (2005-2010). Dr. Creedon served as director of Aging Research for Carlow International from 1993 to 2000, carrying out R&D projects on technology and aging for the European Union, NIH, the Department of Health of Ireland, and other bodies. He was director of corporate programs for the National Council on the Aging from 1987 to 1990. He held the Virginia Prentice Andrews Chair in Gerontology at the University of Bridgeport (CT) (1984-87). He was an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America School of Social Service (1979-84) and director of the Center on Aging at CUA (1982-84).

CarePLaCe. City of Phoenix. $400,000.00 (2023). Elton Bordenave, Director

Still Standing Falls Prevention. Women for ATSU. $6,000.00 (2022). Elton Bordenave, Director

CarePLaCe Caregiver Training Project. Marley Foundation. $150,000. (2019-2021). Elton Bordenave, Director

Safe at Home. Dignity Health Foundations. $33,000.00 (2020). In collaboration with East Valley Adult Resources and Rebuilding Together. Elton Bordenave, Director

CarePLaCe. Warner/Fermaturo and the ATSU Board of Trustees Fund Grant, $5828.00 (2020). Funded Research: "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Addressing the Unmet Needs of Caregivers of Older Adults," Elton Bordenave, Director

Safe at Home. Dignity Health Foundations. $60,000.00 (2019). In collaboration with East Valley Adult Resources and Rebuilding Together. Elton Bordenave, Director

Safe at Home. Dignity Health Foundations. $60,000.00 (2018). In collaboration with East Valley Adult Resources and Rebuilding Together. Elton Bordenave, Director

Safe at Home. Dignity Health Foundations. $60,000.00 (2017). In collaboration with East Valley Adult Resources and Rebuilding Together. Elton Bordenave, Director

Still Standing Falls Prevention. Marley Foundation. $100,000. (2017-2018). Elton Bordenave, Director

Cognitive Stimulation Therapy Incubator Grant. Tempe Community Foundation. $50,000.00 (2016-2018). Elton Bordenave, Director

Incorporation of Falls Prevention Training into Graduate Health Professions Curriculum. Centers for Disease Control. $11,802.46. (2016-2017). Elton Bordenave, Director

Safe at Home. Dignity Health Foundations. $62,373.00 (2016). In collaboration with East Valley Adult Resources and Rebuilding Together. Elton Bordenave, Director

Still Standing Falls Prevention. BHHS Legacy Foundation. $95,000.00. (2015 – 2016). Elton Bordenave, Director

Still Standing Falls Prevention. Arizona Anesthesiology Association, $2000.00. (2015-2016). Elton Bordenave, Director

Community Outreach for Falls Prevention and Chronic Disease Management. Greater Valley Area Health Education Center. $25,000. (2012 – 2014). Elton Bordenave, Director

Transitional Care Community Outreach: A.T. Still University Heart Failure Project. Area Agency on Aging, Region One. $5000. (2011- 2012). Elton Bordenave, Director

Reynolds, L., Buchanan, B. L., &; Bordenave, E. (Accepted for Fall 2020 Conference -cancelled due to Covid19). An Innovative Community-based Care Coordination Program to Address Unmet Caregiver Needs. Aging & Social Change: Tenth Interdisciplinary Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Reynolds, L., Buchanan, B., Crabtree, S., Bordenave, B. (2023). A Program to Improve the Quality of Life of Older Adults with Chronic Conditions: A Pilot Study. Open Journal of Occupational Therapy.

Buchanan, B.L. & Bordenave, E. (October 2022). CarePLaCe: An Innovative Community Based Care Coordination Program to Address Unmet Caregiver Needs, a Pilot Study [Presentation]. 2022 Arizona Occupational Therapy Association Fall Conference, Mesa, AZ.

Buchanan, B.L., Reynolds, L, & Bordenave, E. (September 2022). CarePLaCe: An Innovative Community Based Care Coordination Program to Address Unmet Caregiver Needs, a Pilot Study [Presentation]. 2022 Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium Annual Scientific Conference, Tempe, AZ.

Bordenave, E. & Buchanan, B.L. (August 2022). CarePlaCe: An innovative Community Based Care Coordination Program to Address Unmet Caregiver Needs, a Pilot Study [Presentation]. Arizona Health Equity Conference, Phoenix, AZ.

Reynolds, L. &; Buchanan, B. L. (August 2022). Results of An Innovative Community-Based Care Coordination Program to Address Unmet Caregiver Needs [Presentation]. Eighteenth World Federation of Occupational Therapy Congress, Paris, France.

Hershkowitz, A.B., Uriri-Glover, J., Buchanan, B.B., Bordenave, E., (2019, May). Individual cognitive stimulation therapy effect on caregivers of persons with dementia. Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium, Tempe, Arizona. (Poster).

Bordenave, E (2018). The Benefits of Evidence Based Falls Prevention Programs: Matter of Balance. Arizona Rural Women’s Health Symposium.

Pessis, P., Kasewurm, G. Bordenave, E., Castelli, C. (2017) Are You Feeling Stress Keeping Your Practice Viable? This Is Probably Good. Audiology Now, Indianapolis, April, 2017.

Alexander, J.L. & Bordenave, E. (2015). Health professions student delivery of an evidence­based falls prevention program for older adults. Arizona Geriatrics Society, Spring Conference, Tucson, AZ, April 24, 2015. (Poster).

Alexander, J.L., Bordenave, E., Glaubensklee, C.S. (2015). Influence of participation in a home-based education program for older adults with congestive heart failure on student attitudes towards caring for elders. American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., Sept. 2015. (Poster).

League, P., Alexander, J., Bordenave, E., Bordenave, L., Quinn, C., & Chalykoff, G. (2015). Joining forces: University students and the community offering A Matter of Balance/Volunteer Lay Leader Model. American Society on Aging, Aging in America Conference, Chicago, IL, March 23, 2015. (Workshop).

Mehta, Z., Garbarini, J., Alexander, J.L., Bordenave, E. (2015). A matter of balance: An evidence-­based falls prevention program. Poster presentation at the AudiologyNOW! Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 25­-28, 2015. (Poster).

Alexander, J.L., Bordenave, E., Bordenave, L., & Sartor-Glittenberg, C. (2014). Increasing Physical Therapy students understanding of and skills for working with community dwelling older adults using the Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns About Falls Program. American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Section Meeting, Las Vegas, NV. February 2014.

Alexander, J.L., Bordenave, E., Bordenave, L., & Sartor-Glittenberg, C. (2014). Efficacy of a Student-Led Model for Delivering A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns about Falls to Community-dwelling Older Adults. American Society on Aging, Aging in America Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2014. (Podium/Workshop) Alexander, J.L., Bordenave, E., Bordenave, L., & Sartor-Glittenberg, C. (2014). Effect of A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns about Falls on Balance Confidence in Older Adults. American Society on Aging, Aging in America Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2014. (Poster).

Reynolds, L., Buchanan, B., Crabtree, S., Bordenave, B. (2023). A Program to Improve the Quality of Life of Older Adults with Chronic Conditions: A Pilot Study. Open Journal of Occupational Therapy.

McKinney, G., Alexander, J., & Bordenave, E. (2022). Correlation between Sway Balance and the Modified Balance Error System. Journal of Excercise Physiologyonline, 25(5):27-38.

Reynolds, L., Buchanan, B., Alexander, J.L., Bordenave, B. (2019). Effectiveness of a Matter of Balance Program Within an assisted Living Community, Physical & Occupational Therapy In Geriatrics, DOI: 10.1080/02703181.2019.1673526

Sartor-Glittenberg, C.,Bordenave, E., Bay, C., Alexander, J. L., & Bordenave, L. (2018). Effect of a Matter of Balance Program on avoidance behavior due to fear of falling in older adults. Psychogeriatrics, doi: 10.1111/psyg.12310

Alexander, J.L., Sartor ­Glittenberg, C., Bordenave, E., & Bordenave, L. (2015). Effect of the Matter of Balance program on balance confidence in older adults. The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 28, 1­7.