Staff
Core Staff
Anne Basting, Executive Director; Associate Professor, Theater
Office: 1163 Enderis Hall
Phone: 414.229.2732
Email: basting@uwm.edu
Sue Braden, Managing Director
Office: 1165 Enderis Hall
Phone: 414.229.2729
Email: smbraden@uwm.edu
Goldie Kadushin, Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Applied Gerontology; Professor, Social Work
Office: 1035 Enderis Hall
Phone: 229-6733
Email: kadushin@uwm.edu
Support Staff
Arrington Stoll, Student Office Assistant
Office: 1164 Enderis Hall
Phone: 229-2740
Email: alstoll@uwm.edu
Lori Woodburn, University Services Program Associate
Office: 1164 Enderis Hall
Phone: 229-2740
Email: woodburn@uwm.edu
Anne Basting, Executive 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 two books, Forget Memory: Creating better lives for people with dementia (2009) and 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 from the University of Minnesota. She continues to direct the TimeSlips Creative Storytelling Project, which she founded in 1998, and makes numerous presentations creativity and aging across the United States. She is currently at work on The Penelope Project, discussion with family, residents, and nursing home staff based on the myth of Penelope in Homer's Odyssey. The discussions will inspire a new, professionally staged play inside the nursing home.
Sue Braden, Managing Director
Sue Braden (MS) is the Managing Director of the Center on Age & Community. She is responsible for managing staff and operations of the Center's many innovative projects, including marketing and communications, applied research, and educational programs. Braden is currently completing the CAC's Graduate Certificate in Applied Gerontology and holds a Master's degree in Nonprofit Management and Leadership from UWM's Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management.
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.
Lori Woodburn
University Services Program Associate
