Featuring Patrick Arbore, Founder and Director of the Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention

Continuing our popular weekly interview series on Caregivers and The Eldercare Community, on Tuesday, March 1 at 2pm EST, Susan Baida, Co-Founder of eCareDiary will interview Patrick Arbore, Ed.D.

Dr. Arbore began his career in the field of aging in 1973. He is the founder and the Director of the Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention and Grief Related Services (CESP), a program now of the Institute on Aging in San Francisco. Patrick also serves as the Director of Staff Development and Leadership at the Institute on Aging. Patrick conducts workshops and presents lectures locally and nationally on aging related subjects. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on suicide prevention, bereavement, suffering, etc., including a chapter he co-authored entitled “Suffering and the Caring Professional” in When Professionals Weep: Emotional and Countertransference Responses in End-of-Life Care (2006). He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Human Services Division at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. Patrick also is a part-time Lecturer in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2002, Patrick was the co-recipient of the Gloria A. Cavanaugh Award for excellence in training and education in aging presented by the American Society on Aging.

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