Staff
Core Staff
Anne Basting, Director; Associate Professor, Theater
Office: 1163 Enderis Hall
Phone: 229-2732
Email: basting@uwm.edu
Lorna Dilley, Assistant Director of Communications
Office: 1147A Enderis Hall
Phone: 229-3641
Email: ljdilley@uwm.edu
Tom Fritsch, Associate Director
Office: 1165 Enderis Hall
Phone: 229-2729
Email: fritscht@uwm.edu
Goldie Kadushin, Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Applied Gerontology; Associate Professor, Social Work
Office: 1035 Enderis Hall
Phone: 229-6733
Email: kadushin@uwm.edu
Support Staff
Kara Anderson, Student Office Assistant
Office: 1164 Enderis Hall
Phone: 229-2831
Email: kja3@uwm.edu
Holly Leitner, Communications Assistant
Email: hleitner@uwm.edu
Zoe Lord, Student Office Assistant
Office: 1164 Enderis Hall
Phone: 229-2831
Email: zoeelord@uwm.edu
Lori Woodburn, University Services Program Associate
Office: 1164 Enderis Hall
Phone: 229-2740
Email: woodburn@uwm.edu
Anne Basting, Director
Anne Basting (Ph.D.) is the Director of the Center on Age & Community and an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches storytelling and playwriting. Basting has written extensively on issues of aging and representation, including her book The Stages of Age: Performing Age in Contemporary American Culture. Her numerous articles and essays have been published across multiple disciplines including journals such as The Drama Review, American Theatre, and Journal of Aging Studies, and anthologies Figuring Age, Mental Wellness in Aging, the Handbook for the Humanities and Aging, and Aging and the Meaning of Time. Basting is the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship, a Brookdale National Fellowship, and numerous major grants for her scholarly and creative endeavors. Her creative work includes nearly a dozen plays and public performances, including The Frida Kahlo Retrospective, All the Live Long Day, Persuasion (co-written with Ping Chong), the Last Dinosaur, and TimeSlips. Basting received her Ph.D. in Theatre Arts and Dance from the University of Minnesota in 1995. Basting continues to direct the TimeSlips Creative Storytelling Project, which she founded in 1998. She is currently at work on a new book, Forget Memory: Imagining a Better Life for People with Dementia. Basting makes numerous presentations creativity and aging across the United States.
Lorna Dilley, PhD
Lorna completed her undergraduate degree in sociology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH, and her master's degree in sociology at Kent State University. She received her PhD in Urban Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in May 2006. Her dissertation examined poor women's housing and neighborhood experiences after welfare's end. Lorna spent several years in Cleveland as a mental health social worker before beginning her graduate studies. She has taught courses in sociology and urban studies and her topics of research have included welfare reform, poverty, housing, and work and family issues.
Lorna worked at the Center on Age & Community in 2004 as the Outreach and Summit Coordinator for Almost Home. She came back in January of 2006 to help in the transition while the search was underway for a new associate director, and now serves as CAC's Assistant Director.
Thomas Fritsch, PhD
Thomas Fritsch, Ph.D. is Associate Director of the Center on Age & Community, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Fritsch received his undergraduate degree in psychology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH (1990). His doctoral work, in the area of cognitive experimental psychology, was completed at Miami University, Ohio (2000). His dissertation examined the effects of an intervention to reduce strain in caregivers of cognitively impaired, hospitalized elders.
Prior to coming to UWM, Dr. Fritsch was a researcher for 10 years at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. His research interests there included risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). A specific focus was on associations between factors early in life--such as early cognitive performance and activity levels--and dementia later in life.
Dr. Fritsch has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, and has received grant support from NIA-NIH and the American Health Assistance Foundation. He is currently studying the impact of creative expression programs on many facets of quality of life (QOL) in elders with dementia living in long-term-care. Another research interest is whether and how early memory loss clubs--which are emerging at a grass-roots level at senior centers across the nation--are effective in improving cognition and well being, and increasing engagement with the environment.
Goldie Kadushin, Ph.D.
Dr. Kadushin is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1989, and joined the UWM faculty in 1994. Her teaching responsibilities are in the area of social work methods. Dr. Kadushin is the Coordinator of the University Certificate in Applied Gerontology and the Coordinator of Adjunct Faculty for the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. Dr. Kadushin's current research interests are in the area of community-based social work practice with the elderly. She is the co-author with Alfred Kadushin of the Social Work Interview (4th edition), Columbia University Press, 1997. She is the Associate Editor of the journal, Social Work in Health Care. Dr. Kadushin was a social work practitioner for 15 years.
Representative publications:
Kadushin, G. (1998). Adaptation of the traditional interview to the brief treatment context. Families in Society, 79, 346-357.
Egan, M., & Kadushin, G. (2000). The social worker in the emerging field of home care: Professional activities and ethical concerns. Chapter in S. Keigher, A. Fortune & S. Witkin (Eds.). Aging and Social Work: A Changing Landscape. Washington DC: NASW Press.
Kadushin, G., & Egan, M. (2001). Ethical dilemmas in home health care: A social work perceptive. Health and Social Work, 26, 136 149.
Kadushin, G. (2004). Home health care utilization: A review of the research for social work. Health & Social Work, 29, 219-244.
Egan, M., & Kadushin, G. (2002). Ethical conflicts over access to services: Patient effects and worker influence in home health. Social Work in Health Care, 35, 1-21.
Egan, M., & Kadushin, G. (2004). The job satisfaction of home health social workers in the new environment of cost containment. Health & Social Work, 29, 287-296.
Kadushin, G., & Egan, M. (2004). An exploratory-descriptive study of home health social work practice under the Medicare Prospective Payment System. Journal of Social Work in Long Term Care, 3, 43-56.
Egan M., & Kadushin, G. (2005). Pursuing cost control in home health: Medicare, PPS, practice and patient needs. Social Work in Health Care, 41, 1-19.
Kadushin, G., & Egan, M. Unmet patient need in home care under managed care. (in press). Journal of Gerontological Social Work.
Kara Anderson
Kara Anderson is a senior at UWM majoring in occupational therapy. She has been with the Center on Age & Community since May 2006. Kara is originally from Green Bay, WI, but she has lived in Milwaukee for the past ten years. She plans to pursue a master's degree in occupational therapy and either work in a mental health setting or with young children in a school-based program.
Zoe Lord
Zoe Lord is a junior at UWM and is studying secondary education with a minor in theatre and exceptional education. Zoe is originally from Fredonia, Wisconsin, but is currently living in Milwaukee. She has been employed at the Center on Age & Community since February of 2006. The learning experiences that she has obtained through the Center will not only benefit her, but also her career. After graduation, Zoe hopes to work in the MPS system teaching high school English while actively incorporating theatre. Her ideal goal is to positively influence and enhance students' learning environment.
Lori Woodburn
University Services Program Associate
