Advisory Board

RICHARD SCHULZ, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh
Director, University Center for Social and Urban Research
Director of Gerontology, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Schulz is an internationally-recognized leader in caregiving and its affects on the caregiver. With a doctorate in social psychology from Duke University, he is one of the major contributors to the scientific literature on the effects of late-life illness and disability on patients and their families. Dr. Schulz has been influential in shaping the research and policy agenda in this area, particularly through his recent publications in the New England Journal of Medicine (2003) and the Journal of the American Medical Association (1999, 2001, 2004).

JAMES HUYSMAN, Psy.D., LCSW, CAP
Co-Founder & Executive Director, The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation
Member of the Home Instead Senior Care Advisory Board
James Huysman, Psy.D, is a board-certified clinical social worker. He understands that it is often difficult for family caregivers to reach out for help or to find resources, so he has taken his experience and partnered with Leeza Gibbons, one of this country's most prominent family caregivers, and created Leeza's Place. As part of the The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, of which he is executive director and co-founder, Leeza's Place was created to meet the growing needs of those recently diagnosed with a memory disorder, as well as their families. The non-profit organization has partnered with Home Instead Senior Care this year to help support family caregivers and the opening of additional Leeza's Place facilities throughout the United States.

Dr. Huysman believes that a caregiver's stressful challenges, if met with innovation, can be effectively transformed into education, empowerment and energy for their life journeys. His philosophy is that the human spirit is resilient, powerful and dynamic. Change is imminently possible on a mental, medical, and spiritual basis, and his philosophy is reflected in the caregiver programs found at Leeza's Places around the country.

LINDA RHODES, Ed.D.
Gerontologist
President, Linda Rhodes Caregiving, LLC
Author, Caregiving As Your Parents Age and The Caregiver Kit

Dr. Rhodes is a former Secretary of Aging for the state of Pennsylvania. During her tenure, she oversaw a billion dollars worth of long term care services and created the award-winning Family Caregiving Program, helping thousands of families care for their loved ones at home. Holding a doctorate in the field from Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Rhodes is frequently asked to testify before legislative committees and is a popular speaker at conferences on aging and healthcare throughout the country. She writes a weekly "Living" feature eldercare column for Pennsylvania's state capitol newspaper, The Patriot-News.

PAUL HOGAN
Eldercare Expert
Founder & President, Home Instead Senior Care

Paul Hogan and his wife, Lori, founded Home Instead Senior Care in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1994. It was from his own family experience with caring for his grandmother at home for 12 years that helped him realize that there was a need for non-medical eldercare and companionship services to help seniors to continue to live independently at home. This service would also provide overtaxed, stressed family caregivers with a professional resource to turn to. A little more than a decade later, there are more than 500 Home Instead Senior Care Offices in the United States and Canada, with international expansion into Japan, Portugal, Ireland and Australia. The senior care and companionship industry is expected to grow exponentially, as the boomers reach their retirement years.