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Emily Carton, LISW

Emily Carton, LISW, has been a geriatric social worker for over twenty years. Currently she is with ElderOptions, a private care management organization that works with older people and their families in the Washington Metropolitan Area. ElderOptions also provides workshops and seminars to businesses and corporations to assist their employees in dealing with elder issues.

Ms. Carton is also a trained bibliotherapist and uses literature and poetry to work in mental health settings with people with mental illness, or those who wish to explore their concerns with poetry and literature as the vehicle. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, The Journal for Poetry Therapy, and in other professional journals.

The concerns of aging affect people throughout their lives. It is the goal of her work to bring creative solutions to difficult situations and to bring the issues that everyone must face into an open and creative dialogue. It was through a profound respect for people and their life stories that propelled her into this profession and it's the remarkable strength and wisdom of "life's survivor's," that has kept her involved in the geriatric profession.

She can be reached through: ElderOptions
8008 Quarry Ridge Way
Bethesda, Maryland 20817
Phone:301-767-0121
Fax 301- 767-0120

Read Ms. Carton's Articles:

• Aging, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• Aging: Coping with Age Memory Loss Part 1
• Aging: Coping with Aging Memory Loss Part 2
• Aging: Dementia Versus Delirium
• Aging: Depression and Older Adults Part 1
• Aging: Depression and Older Adults Part 2
• Aging: Depression and Older Adults Part 3
• Aging: How do I Deal with a Failing but Uncooperative Parent?
• Aging: Long Distance Caring
• Before a Parent Moves in: An Emotional Elderly Home Care Checklist for Families
• Books for Dealing with Aging Parents
• Future Planning: Thinking about Advanced Directives
• Health: How to Cope with a Hospitalized, Angry, Abusive Father
• Health: How to Effectively Manage Ineffective Nursing Home Staff
• Health: How to Think about Discontinuing Tube Feeding a Parent
• How Can I Convince My Aging Parents to Get the Help They Need?
• Long Distance Care for Aging Parents
• Things to Consider Before Giving Home Care to Your Parents
• What Should I do about a Parent who is Stopping Medication?
• When the Holidays Turn into a Signal for Help

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