On Sunday, July 24, Dr. Rosanne Leipzig will present “Honest Aging: What’s the Right Medical Care for Older Adults?” for the Monadnock Summer Lyceum.
The presentation will be at Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church, 25 Main St., at 11 a.m., preceded at 10:30 a.m. by the music of Fireside Winds.
A leader in geriatric studies, Leipzig’s awards include the Dennis W. Jahnigen Memorial Award, the Brookdale National Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine, the Paula Ettlebrick Community Service Award for Advocacy for LGBT Elders and Mount Sinai’s Jacobi Medallion. She has appeared on “Today,” “CBS Evening News” and “CBS Sunday Morning,” and has been published in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Her talk will focus on medical evidence that provides a framework for making decisions about disease and medical intervention, including questions patients and family should ask and which providers must answer, and how making decisions about health can be made less onerous and more closely aligned with one’s personal definition of health.
Moderator Meredith MacMartin is director of inpatient clinical services for palliative care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and director of the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care. A Peterborough native, MacMartin graduated from the College of William and Mary, attended Wake Forest School of Medicine and completed internal and palliative care training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
The program is also available online. Go to monadnocklyceum.org for information.