Audrey Ignatoff
Bio: Audrey Ignatoff is the president of Senior Arts and Systems, a consulting company in health care and geriatrics. She has conducted seminars and in-service training for hospitals, nursing homes, home health care agencies, social service agencies, and businesses.
Audrey is the former Coordinator for The New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services? (now OASAS) subcommittee on Drug Misuse and the Elderly where she designed a statewide educational program on preventing drug misuse for seniors for professionals, patients, and caregivers. She is the author of The Art and Systems of Medication Use: A Training and Resource Manual. Audrey also coordinated the first national study of polydrug abusers under a contract for The National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA).
As a delegate for the New York State Governor?s Conference on Aging in 1981, she was responsible for submitting two policy resolutions, which became federal law under The Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987. One was to free residents in long-term care facilities from unnecessary medications, and the other was to require mandatory training for all staff in long-term care.
Audrey Ignatoff holds a Master of Science in Social Research from Hunter College in New York City, and lives with her husband and two children in New Jersey.
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