Working With Older Adults: Group Process And Technique

Dr Barbara Haight is a Professor Emeritus at the College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina. Recently retired, Dr Haight served the University for over 20 years in various roles to include Associate Dean of Research and Practice, Department Chairperson, and Senior Scholar. She was the first nurse faculty member to be awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Medical University. Dr Haight was funded to start three separate graduate programs in gerontological nursing and 8 research projects on the structured role of life review. She opened a primary care clinic in a subsidized housing high-rise where nurses and social workers were reimbursed for conducting life reviews. She was the first president of the Life Review and Reminiscing Society, now the International Institute of Reminiscence and Life Review, and has conducted life review projects in the United States, England, Japan, and most recently Northern Ireland, where she worked with co-author Faith Gibson. Dr. Haight is co-editor of two books on reminiscing and life review and is widely published in the field of life review and gerontology. She is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America, and the American Academy of Nursing. She is married to Col Barrett Haight, an attorney, retired from the US Army and from the Citadel. They have five children and eight grandchildren. Faith Gibson OBE is an Emeritus Professor of Social Work in the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. She is a graduate of the Universities of Sydney, Queensland and Chicago and holds degrees in psychology, social work and education. While her earlier social work career was in childcare and psychiatric social work, she has been involved in social work practice, policy development, research and teaching concerned with aging and dementia for more than thirty years. She has published widely on social work education, social gerontology, dementia care, and reminiscence theory and practice. She has authored or co-authored six books concerned with reminiscence work with individuals and small groups. She is a member of the British Association of Social Workers, the British Society of Gerontology and the Northern Ireland, UK, and European Reminiscence Networks. She is married to Norman Gibson, an Emeritus Professor of Economics and they have three children and four grandchildren.