Introduction to Senior Transportation: Enhancing Community Mobility and Transportation Services (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138959903)

Helen K. Kerschner has more than thirty-five years of experience in health, aging, transportation, and international development. Her career has included positions in university settings, corporate America, the federal government, and nonprofits. She is Director of the National Volunteer Transportation Center of the Community Transportation Association of America, Washington, DC. Formerly, she was President and CEO of the Beverly Foundation, which conducted research, demonstration, and education to foster new ideas and options for enhancing mobility and transportation for today's and tomorrow's older population.

Nina M. Silverstein is Professor of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and has held leadership roles in that organization, the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and the Alzheimer's Association. She has published on the impact of dementia on home, community, institutional and acute care settings and on a broad range of issues in gerontology. Her primary research interests relate to transportation and aging with a special focus on dementia.