Ask Jodee - Jodee Meddy, RN, MS, LNHA, Co-founder of SeniorSite.com is a nationally acclaimed Licensed Nursing Home Administrator, a Registered Nurse and an expert on Long Term/ Extended Care issues and Nursing Homes.

Jodee's 25 year career in Health Care has been as a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator for 10 years, followed by 5 years as CEO of an East Coast group of Nursing Home/Extended Care Centers, followed by East Coast Regional Director for Geriatrix, a leading National Senior Care management organization based in San Diego, California, and as COO for several Extended Care facilities in NY's North Shore/LIJ Healthcare System.

Currently Jodee Meddy is pursuing her life-long dream of helping Seniors in the ultimate way - by attending Medical School to become a Doctor specializing in Geriatric Medicine. What better way to help Seniors than by healing and extending life.

Jodee is a leading advocate for the rights of senior adults and a renowned public speaker on women's rights and is very politically involved regarding Senior Care issues. Jodee was very instrumental in helping to get a certain female elected as NY State Senator. Besides being a regular contributor on SeniorSite.com, Jodee monitors all SeniorSite Long Term/ Extended Care content and answers members questions on her Ask Jodee Column.  » Ask Jodee

Phyllis Shelton is author of Long-Term Care: Your Financial Planning Guide and is also President of LTC Consultants, a Nashville-based company specializing in web-based and live long-term care insurance training and marketing materials. Her organization has trained over 40,000 insurance agents and delivered 2,020 employee education meetings for the Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program.  » Ask Phyllis Shelton

George Fulmore, is a retired educator and programmer who retired on the younger side of the scale. With this column, George will introduce you to the concept of "The Art of Retirement".  » Ask George Fulmore

Janet Hall, The Organizing Wizard and Certified Pyramid Feng Shui Practitioner, offers professional organizing services to small and large businesses and also works with individuals, families, seniors, and individuals with ADD and ADHD in dealing with home clutter and time management.

Janet Hall has written organizing articles for various publications. She is the owner of OverHall Consulting, and Organizing By Phone and has written several organizing booklets.  » Ask Janet Hall

Doctor Pourrat Monahemi, is the SeniorSite expert on medical and health issues concerning seniors and brings you the latest health news, views, secrets and tips that your health professional may not know or tell you about, including the latest medical breakthroughs from Mother Nature and modern technology.

Dr. M is the NY State Medical Director for Geriatrix, a leading national senior care management organization and is a Medical Director and Head Physician in many Long Term Care Hospitals throughout the New York City area. Dr. M monitors all SeniorSite health content. If you have any seniors health questions or concerns, click here for Dr. M's "Ask The Doctor" section. » Ask Dr. M

Pat Boone is the SeniorSite expert on music from the '40s, '50s and '60s. He sold more records in the '50s than any other artist except one - Elvis Presley.

Besides breaking boundaries in pop music, he starred in 15 motion pictures, wrote several best selling books and songs, hosted his own TV variety series - The Chevy Showroom - and became a Magna Cum Laude graduate from Columbia University.

With his wealth of entertainment knowledge, Pat Boone offers recommendations on music and movies that will bring back precious memories for you and your family.  » Ask Pat Boone

Gayle Mitchell is the SeniorSite expert on responsible casino gambling. Gayle has some great tips to share with SeniorSite members who enjoy this popular activity.

If you're planning on visiting a casino we think you should be prepared with the latest consumer information available, including news on gambling scams that target seniors. 
» Ask Gayle Mitchell

Edwin Black is the SeniorSite expert on historical / holocaust / World War II issues for seniors. 

Edwin Black is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling investigative author of IBM and the Holocaust (Crown Publishing and others worldwide 2001), The Transfer Agreement (Macmillan 1984 and Carroll-Graff 2001), War Against the Weak (Four Walls Eight Windows and others worldwide September 2003), and a novel, Format C: (Dialog Press and others worldwide 1999). His latest book is Banking on Baghdad (John Wiley & Sons and others worldwide).

In the past several years, Black has won numerous prestigious awards. In 2004, he won the coveted Rockower Award for Investigative Journalism--First Prize from the American Jewish Press Association for his syndicated investigation of the Ford Foundation's systematic funding of hate groups.

In 2003, Black received the International Human Rights Award from the World Affairs Council for War Against the Weak. Plus, in 2003, he received the top two editorial awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors: Best Book of the Year for IBM and the Holocaust and Best Article of the Year for "IBM in Auschwitz" in the Village Voice. Editors have nominated Black for the Pulitzer Prize eight times, the most recently for Banking on Baghdad. In addition, Black received the Carl Sandburg Award for The Transfer Agreement as well as two Folio Awards and a Computer Press Association Award for excellence in magazine publishing.

Black's enterprise writing has appeared in dozens of newspapers across the United States and Europe, from the Washington Post, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Daily News and Los Angeles Times to Sunday Times (England), Frankfurter Zeitung (Germany) and Jerusalem Post (Israel). The world's leading magazines have also carried his work, from Playboy and Reform Judaism to Der Spiegel and L'Express.

Black's latest book is Banking on Baghdad, which chronicles the tragic and turbulent 7,000-year history of Iraq. Banking on Baghdad is the first history of Iraq from a global stage, as determined by the corporate boardrooms and governmental war rooms of London, Paris, Istanbul, Washington and the other centers of commercial and political power that coveted its geography and geology. Black led a team of thirty researchers in five countries, accessing more than 100 repositories and securing some 50,000 documents. Black was granted access to the corporate archives of numerous oil companies involved in Iraq and the Middle East. Sir Martin Gilbert wrote, "Every hour spent reading Banking on Baghdad will be well rewarded. The historical detail is fascinating; Edwin Black's mastery of it reads like a detective story and thriller combined, and the relevance of the past has seldom been so graphically portrayed. This is a gripping exposé… this is fact not fiction, more endlessly intriguing and absorbing than any novel could be." Banking on Baghdad has been nominated for a Pulitzer.

He is the winner of the American Society of Journalists and Authors prizes for the best nonfiction book of 2002 for IBM and the Holocaust, as well as best investigative article of 2002 for his piece on IBM at Auschwitz that appeared in the Village Voice. He has also won the Carl Sandburg Award for the best nonfiction book of 1984 for The Transfer Agreement, two Folio Awards, and a Computer Press Association Award for publishing excellence. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize five times.   » Ask Edwin Black