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Bio – John Paul Marosy

Biographical Information
John Paul Marosy

John Paul Marosy is a pioneer in the field of aging. His latest book, Elder Care: A Six Step Guide to Balancing Work and Family has won both a national 2003 Mature Media Award and a 2003 Caregiver Friendly Award from Today’s Caregiver magazine. He is also the author of A Manager’s Guide to Elder Care and Work (Greenwood Publishing, Westport, CT, 1999), the standard reference text on this subject. He is the author of numerous articles on the subject and is a sought-after speaker.

As president of Bringing Elder Care Home LLC, John Paul consults with business and community organizations to create work places that allow employed caregivers to balance elder care and work.

Over the past 25 years, John Paul has served as CEO of leading healthcare organizations, including Minuteman Senior Services (Burlington, MA), the Home Health Assembly of New Jersey (Princeton, NJ) and Visiting Nurse Affiliates (Cambridge, MA).

And he has lived the elder care experience as a family caregiver to his father.

John Paul serves as national program director of the Communicating Effectively with Healthcare Professionals Program of the National Family Caregivers Association, a Program of National Significance funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging.

He is a founder of the Family Caregiving Coalition of New England and serves as central New England Representative for the NFCA Caregiver Community Action Network.

The Planning Partnership In Aging, a program conceived and implemented by John Paul, received a Presidential Citation from the President’s Council on Public/Private Initiatives.

John Paul holds a Masters Degree in Urban Affairs from Boston University and a bachelors in Urban Studies from Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, NJ. He is the immediate past president of the Massachusetts Gerontology Association and is an active member of the American Society on Aging, the Alliance for Work/Life Progress, the New England Employee Benefits Council, and the National Speakers Association. He resides in Worcester, Massachusetts with wife Donna and son Martin.

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Speaker Information – John Paul Marosy

Finding the balance

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An awesome wave of aging is bearing down on America, washing over every aspect of our lives, reaching into our homes and jobs. The aging of America is driving a tremendous growth in family caregiving, where working-aged persons struggle to balance their job responsibilities with the responsibility of caring for an older relative. In fact, family caregivers provide over 80% of all the home care in the United States. Juggling responsibilities for raising a family, performing on the job, and caring for an older relative can be stressful. It can also be a richly rewarding experience; an opportunity to heal relationships and give back to an older loved one. John Paul Marosy has helped countless organizations and individuals to understand and safely deal with the profoundly important issue of elder care. His presentations are warm and accessible, drawing on his own rich experience as a caregiver to his father. But John Paul also taps his unique insights, […]

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Report: America’s Invisible Workforce – America’s Family Caregivers

A Portrait of Family Caregiving

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Caregiving affects people of all ages, races, ethnicities, lifestyles and income levels. Usually untrained for the tasks at hand, and working without respite, family caregivers commonly sacrifice their own physical and mental health—and frequently their financial well-being—for the ones they love.

While motivated by emotional commitment, they provide an invisible workforce that literally props up the American health care system. The value of these family caregivers’ services is estimated at $257 billion a year—more than twice what is spent, nationwide, on nursing homes and paid home care combined. Today, caregiving is much more than a family issue. It is a social and economic issue that warrants attention and action from policymakers, the health care industry and the public. […]

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Report: America’s Invisible Workforce – America’s Family Caregivers

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Executive Summary:
New England Family Caregiving Town Hall Meeting

Executive Summary

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Family caregivers made history on September 20, 2003.

On that sunny Saturday morning, 175 family caregivers and professionals who work with them gathered at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston to voice their concerns and to articulate their dreams for a better quality of life for all family caregivers. They were joined by expert panelists at the Boston site – and by another 200+ New England residents who participated in a live, interactive webcast of the event. Some gathered at satellite sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, while others logged on via their personal computers in their homes.

Background

The New England Family Caregiving Town Hall Meeting came about thanks to the united effort of over 40 community organizations throughout New England. A full list of community sponsors can be found later in this report. The New England meeting was one of several town hall meetings organized by the National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) as part of a year-long celebration of its tenth anniversary. NFCA is a non-profit organization, headquartered in Kensington, MD, that is dedicated to improving the quality of life of all of America’s family caregivers […]

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Executive Summary: New England Family Caregiving Town Hall Meeting

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