• speaks on both clinical and managerial topics (programs)
  
• receives consistently "excellent" evaluations (others say)
  
• travels throughout the United States (events)
  
• speaks at conventions, seminars, individual long term care facilities, universities and colleges. The year 2005 found her in front of 84 different audiences in 17 states! She spoke to groups from 5 to 850! (events)
  
• has been selected as one of a few selected national speakers profiled by the ACHCA in their CHAPTER SPEAKER’S BUREAU, Vol 1, 2002. (ACHCA.org)
  
• stars (her word!) in an extensive series of videos highlighting many of her areas of expertise (products)
  

• works hand in hand with facility staff as they revise their approach to resident care (others say)
  
• encourages others to embrace the out of the box approach to care (programs)
  
• interfaces with families and members of the community regarding clinical issues (products)
  
• leads management teams to introspective review of their practices (programs)
  

As a research partner with Barbara Brock of Communication Art, 80 health care workers, 22 facilities and 364 residents in long term care facilities throughout Ohio, she is proud to report their research findings were published in the September 2005 issue of The Journal of Gerontological Nursing. The journal article is entitles:

"Visual Spatial Abilities and Fall Risk. An Assessment Tool for Individuals With Dementia."

The Project funded by a grant from Manor Care Foundation, Toledo, Ohio, confirmed that a brief cognitive assessment known as the Reality Comprehension Clock Test (RCCT 1999 Brock, B., et el) is capable of identifying visual spatial problems that leads to falls in elderly patients who suffer from Alzheimer's and other related dementia. (clocktestrcct.com)