Help Participants Make What Matters Most the Priority: A Practical Toolkit for Your Center

Dianne Stone has more than 20 years of experience with senior centers and aging issues, primarily as the Director of the Newington Senior and Disabled Center in Newington, Connecticut. Stone has also worked, volunteered, and held leadership positions with a variety of organizations in Connecticut, including Connecticut AgeWell Collaborative, the ADA Coalition of Connecticut, Connecticut Medicaid Oversight Council, and the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity. She joined NCOA in January 2022, as a member of the Center for Healthy Aging, where she is primarily focused on supporting senior centers throughout the country through the ACL-funded Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC. 

Kathleen Cameron, BSPharm, MPH, has more than 25 years of experience in the health care field as a pharmacist, researcher, and program director focusing on falls prevention, geriatric pharmacotherapy, mental health, long-term services and supports, and caregiving. Cameron was the Senior Director of the NCOA Center for Healthy Aging, where she provided subject matter expertise on health care programmatic and policy related issues and oversaw the Modernizing Senior Center Resource Center.

Kizzy Hernandez Bigos is a dedicated Health Priorities Identification Facilitator and Trainer at the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Geriatrics. She brings a deep commitment to person-centered care, with a special focus on supporting older adults through complex health conversations and care planning.

Kizzy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Applied Social Relations from Eastern Connecticut State University.