About The Partners • • •
Dr. Barbara Silverstone and Dr. Ann Burack-Weiss are licensed clinical social workers and prolific authors with decades of practice, supervisory, administrative, and educational experience. They are co-authors of the text Social Work Practice with The Frail Elderly and Their Families: The Auxiliary Function Model, published in 1983.
Dr. Silverstone served as President/CEO of Lighthouse International from 1984 - 2005 and before that as Executive Director of the Benjamin Rose Institute. A former President of the Gerontological Society of America, she is co-author with Helen Kandel Hyman of You and Your Aging Parent, the 4th edition soon to be released. She is currently Adjunct Associate Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Silverstone can be reached at bsilverstone@sbwpartners.com.
Dr. Burack-Weiss is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work where she has taught two generations of students. She is the author of The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life and lectures on narrative approaches in work with older adults and their families. She is co-author (with Frances Coyle Brennan) of Gerontological Supervision: A Social Work Perspective in Case Management and Direct Care. Dr. Burack-Weiss can be reached at aburack-weiss@sbwpartners.com.