Your May 2020 AMAC Foundation Newsletter
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Saying Farewell to a Friend!
 
 
Well, it's not really a farewell. We plan on staying in contact with
our good friend and colleague Sandra Sinagra as she eases into
retirement. Sandra has served admirably as our Foundation Executive
Assistant since 2015, handling the myriad details, action items, and
general loose ends that comprise an active non-profit in today's
world. As an elected member of the Foundation Board of Directors,
Sandra contributed extensively to the oversight critical to our
compliance with non-profit regulations, drawing on her considerable
level of experience with Kingston, New York's Health Alliance
Foundation, where she served as Director of Foundation Relations.
Sandra has agreed to remain as a member of our Board of Directors,
and in that capacity will continue to aid our organization as we carry
out our mission of supporting and educating America's seniors. It's
accurate to say that Sandra's contributions to our Foundation are a
major factor in the level of success we've been able to achieve, and
we look forward to having the opportunity to work with her in the
future.
Coincident with Sandra's retirement, Eileen Cook has assumed the
position of Executive Assistant. Eileen is a seasoned professional at
AMAC, with an extensive history in healthcare research and
administration. She has worked closely with the Foundation staff on a
variety of activities and projects over the past several years, and
particularly with Sandra, making the transfer of responsibilities
relatively seamless.
 
"True friends aren't the ones who make your problems disappear. They
are the ones who won't disappear when you're facing problems."
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New "Ask Rusty" Publication Going to Print
 
 
Our newest Foundation publication is going to print! We expect to
have the update to our prior "Ask Rusty" compendium printed and
available for release during August. We're pretty excited about this
one...it's a major milestone for us. The approach we've taken with
this book is different, in that we've made it essentially an
instructive, almost textbook like. Each section will present, in
understandable terms, Social Security's rules, and follow these rule
definitions with actual "Ask Rusty" Q&A publications that illustrate
real-life examples of the rules in action.
The total publication is slightly over 300 pages, and we're producing
it as a hardbound book. When it's printed, it will be available for
purchase through the Foundation office at a relatively modest price.
Watch our Foundation.org and SocialSecurityReport.org websites for
announcements!
As a follow-on to this project, we plan to provide the book to each
Congressional Office, along with an explanation of our Social Security
Advisory Service and how their staff members can take advantage of our
services on behalf of their constituents.
 
Webinars...More Webinars!
 
 
Our first venture into the world of online seminars is behind us, and
it went fairly well. Our guest presenter, Peggy Bargmann, did an
outstanding job in the hour-long discussion on "Understanding Early
Dementia," with 17 attendees joining the seminar. Our second venture
was, our "New to Medicare: What you need to know!" briefing presented
by AMAC's Scott Kellogg, was equally successful, although a glitch
(technical term) negated the recorded copy (we plan to re-do the
webinar soon).
Since we're evidently going to be in a continued "social distancing"
stanch for the next few weeks or months, we're adding to our schedule
of upcoming webinars. Check our website's "Events"
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page, and you'll see what we've offering for the August/September
period, and we'll be adding to this as" time goes by. Recognizing our
country's current focus, we've added several directly related to the
COVID-19 pandemic. You'll also note that we're reoffering our "New to
Medicare" webinar on Tuesday, August 18...this is especially valuable
to anyone aging into Medicare eligibility, as well as anyone who just
wants to have a better understanding of the program's moving parts.
If you have any topics you'd like to suggest, we'd love to hear them!
Just email them to [email protected]
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