Bellagio Fellowship
Press Release

G. Allen Power, MD is Eden Mentor at St. John’s Home in Rochester, NY, and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester. He is a board certified internist and geriatrician, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians / American Society for Internal Medicine.

Dr. Power is a Certified Eden Alternative® Educator and a member of the Eden Alternative board of directors. He has lectured on dementia and other elder care topics throughout the US, in Canada, the UK, Denmark, Singapore and Malta. In 2007 Dr. Power participated in a CMS webcast teaching culture change principles to nursing home surveyors. He was an expert consultant to New York’s Quality Improvement Organization for CMS’ Eighth Scope of Work program on culture change and depression, their Ninth Scope of Work program on restraint removal, and will be consulting on the Tenth Scope of Work as well.

In December 2011, Dr. Power recorded introductory material for a new CMS educational package, “Hand in Hand”, designed to help hands-on staff better care for people living with dementia. He will be working in an advisory capacity with CMS in 2012 for their new Congressional initiative to reduce antipsychotic drug overuse in nursing homes. Dr. Power is also a charter member of the International Advisory Board for Australia’s new Dementia Foundation for Spark of Life, created to support the award-winning work of Dementia Care Australia.

Dr. Power’s book, Dementia beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care was released by Health Professions Press in February 2010. It won a 2010 Book of the Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing, and a Merit Award from the 2011 National Mature Media Awards. He has been awarded a Bellagio Residency in Italy for spring 2012 by the Rockefeller Foundation, where he will work with Dr. Emi Kiyota on developing guiding principles for sustainable communities that embrace people of all ages and abilities.

Dr. Power is a featured contributor to Eden Founder Dr. Bill Thomas’ web log at www.changingaging.org. He has been interviewed by BBC Television, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Singapore’s Straits Times, Provider, Caring for the Ages, MD News, WHYY radio, WXXI radio, many other publications and radio shows, and for the book Old Age in a New Age: The Promise of Transformative Nursing Homes, by Beth Baker.
    
In 2011, Dr. Power developed dementia training curricula for the Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services and for The Eden Alternative organization. He is working with AgeSong Communities of San Francisco and faculty from UCSF to develop a mindfulness-based training program for care partners of people with dementia.

Dr. Power is also a trained musician and songwriter with three recordings, including Life worth Living: A Celebration of Elders and Those Who Care for Them.  His songs have been recorded by several artists and performed on three continents. Peter, Paul and Mary have performed his song of elder autonomy, “If You Don’t Mind”, and Walter Cronkite used his song, “I’ll Love You Forever” in a 1995 Discovery Channel profile of American families.

 

 

G. Allen Power. MD, FACP
Eden Mentor
St. John's Home
150 Highland Avenue
Rochester, NY, USA 14620
585-760-2639