Rhoda Meador

Meador’s academic training is in adult education and distance learning. She has spent much of her career working with practice and applied audiences including over twenty-five years of experience as an adult educator and administrator in a variety of education, human service, and health care settings. She has developed and implemented many successful long-term care staff training programs. She has consulted, presented seminars, and facilitated numerous events on topics including recruitment and retention of frontline workers, elder abuse, communications, and adult learning. In 2001, she served as the principal investigator for a Phase I SBIR grant entitled Web-based CNA Inservice Training Program (Grant # 1R43 AG20440-01). In her employment as a Cooperative Extension agent, her main responsibility was to translate research knowledge generated by Cornell University to the public. She has developed dissemination components for many projects. Over the past 10 years, she has established contacts with many of the major state and national interest groups in aging, which will be very useful to CITRAS activities.
In addition, Meador has recent experience in successful program dissemination in NYC. In 2002, she worked in partnership with the Foundation for Long-term Care to design and disseminate Caring Communication: Cooperative Communication about End-of-Life Care, a project funded by the United Hospital Fund. She designed and conducted five train-the-trainer workshops for approximately 60 nursing homes and other elder-care agencies in each of the five boroughs of New York.