Acknowledgements
The Mental Health and Aging Advocacy Project wishes to express its appreciation to all who made this guide possible. It wishes to recognize and thank Nicola Donlen for her tireless work in researching, writing and editing the document.
We thank the many resources from which we adapted information for this guide. We are also grateful to the many agencies and organizations named in this guide who serve older adults in our community.
There were many who helped contribute to and/or reviewed the contents of this guide, including Bonnie Gilbert, Trudy Persky, Esther Mathieu, Doris Loftin, Cynthia Zubritsky, Marian Mullahy, Deborah Sterne, Misa Romasko, Bill Krum, Sarah Nathan, Maria Brown, Mary Hurtig, Susan Rogers, Tom Volkert, the Senior Advocacy Team, the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, the Philadelphia Office of Mental Health and the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Special thanks go to Michael Nathan for the cover design.
In particular, the Mental Health/Aging Advocacy Project wishes to thank Eli Lilly and Company, who provided the funding for this resource guide.