Welcome To EldercareMediators.com

Connecticut

Jane Beddall, M.A., J.D., founded Dovetail Resolutions, a mediation and consulting firm, after many years as an attorney and mediator. Her personal, professional, and volunteer experiences have included working with elders and their loved ones in various challenging roles and situations. Dovetail's focus is on elder mediation, conflicts in estate planning and settlement, and business (especially family business) conflicts. Its aim to help you achieve piece of mind through preventing conflicts when possible and resolving them
when necessary. www.dovetailresolutions.com

Rikk Larsen is a founding partner of Elder Decisions where he is a mediator, trainer and conflict coach. He has created and presented conflict skills trainings to eldercare professionals from around New England. Rikk serves on a Subcommittee for the Massachusetts Trial Court’s Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution. http://www.elderdecisions.com/

Arline Kardasis, B.A., M.A.T. is a mediator, trainer, conflict consultant and coach. As a family mediator, she specializes in elder and divorce mediation. Arline mentors new mediators in the Massachusetts Courts and designs and delivers conflict skills trainings to eldercare professionals. She is a co-founder and partner at Agreement Resources, LLC and Elder Decisions. Both of these firms have been approved to receive referrals from the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court Department. Arline has a professional background in educational administration at the university level and twenty years as a business owner and director.

Judith Machanik, B.A. is the Principal of Access Mediation Services, LLC and has acquired more than 100 hours as a mediator. She is trained as an elder mediator, CHINS mediator, divorce mediator and community mediator. She is also a court coordinator for small claims court in Great Barrington, MA. As a business consultant, she has worked in numerous senior living facilities as a marketing consultant/interviewer/writer. Judith is skilled, experienced, and professional.

Jill Sarah Moscowitz, M.P.H. serves as mediator for the New Jersey Superior Court, US Postal Service, United Postal Service and the Transportation Securities Administration. She has many years experience as a nutritionist working with older adults where she provided nutritional advise to homebound elders and their caregivers. Jill Sarah authored the article "Compassionate Communications for Caregivers" which can be found at "Articles and Information", www.EldercareMediators.com .

Christina P. Burnham, J.D. is an attorney specializing in family, probate, juvenile and elder law. She has represented elderly clients in probate matters including involuntary conservatorships, estate planning, drafting health care directives, wills, and Title XIX eligibility from state to state. Christina holds a B.A. in applied music and music history from Connecticut College, and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut.

Barbara Sunderland Manousso Ph.D.(ABD), M.P.H., T.C.D.M. Texas Credentialed Distinguished Mediator. Mediator since 1993. She has been a trainer, lecturer, and practioner in elder care mediation. Her doctoral dissertation has been in elder care mediation. She mediates for nursing long-term care facilities, probate courts, and families in a crisis or planning mode involving elders and adults. Sometimes a family only needs Manousso as a conflict coach, which can be done by phone or online. Past-president of the Association for Conflict

Resolution Houston Chapter. I am also a member of the
Houston and New England Chapters of ACR.