The Magic of Elder Care Mediation

Kim Hegwood | February 18, 2025

Mediation is the opportunity for the family to have a qualified conversation where they have been nibbling with each
other. They are now in the presence of a professional who’s going to help them each be heard and to hear a radical idea. ~ Barbara Manousso
Title: The Magic of Elder Care Mediation

Talking Points:

1.   What is Elder Care Mediation?

2.   When adult children caring for an aging parent cannot agree how can a mediator help?

3.   Is there a lot more tension when some of the siblings live out of town?

4.   What are common problems that adult children face when caring for an aging parent with dementia?

5.   How can you get family members to agree to mediation?

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Bio:

Barbara Sunderland Manousso, Ph.D., MPH, CFRE

Dr. Barbara Sunderland Manousso, Ph.D., M.P.H., CFRE, is CEO and founder of Manousso Mediation and Arbitration, LLC, and Solution2Conflict. She has taught, lectured, and practiced mediation and arbitration worldwide, since 1993, and for the past ten years, an adjunct faculty at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX in GlobalConflict Management.  Her Podcast is Manousso Musing on InstantMediations.com.
Dr. Manousso earned her baccalaureate from Brown University; Master of Public Health, from the University of Texas School of Public Health; and Ph.D.,
from Nova Southeastern University.  She attended South Texas College of Law.

She has been the treasurer of the Texas Mediation Trainers Round Table since 2020 and serves on the Executive Committee, of the Texas Consortium of ADR trainers.  She also serves on the board and as past president of the Association for Conflict Resolution Houston Chapter and the Houston Gerontological Society.  The 2016 to 2019 Chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution International section for Training, Education, and Research
Committee and formerly Health Care Section and Workplace sections.  She is past president of the Association for Conflict Resolution Houston Chapter.

In 2019, she received the Suzanne Adams Award from the Texas Association of Mediators.  In 2018, she was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award in mediation and arbitration from the Association for Conflict Resolution Houston Chapter, A Houston Business Journal Mentor, and A Woman Who Means Business by the Houston Business Journal.  In 2010, she was recognized as One of the Fifty Most Influential Women in Houston, by Houston Women’s Magazine.  In 1992, she was recognized by the Egyptian Suez Government.  In 1972, she was recognized by the White House as Rhode Island’s Outstanding Small Business.

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