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WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY HOSTS CONFERENCE ON MEDICARE A conference designed to offer information and analysis of how the 1997 Balanced Budget Act changed the Medicare program will be held at William Paterson University in Wayne on Wednesday, April 28, 1999. "Medicare 1999: A Web of Confusion" will run from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom on campus. The fee is $10 for attendees age 55 and older and $30 for professionals in the field and other participants. The event is geared to Medicare beneficiaries, older adults, family members, and health care professionals. National, state and local experts will discuss how changes in the Medicare program impact on beneficiaries and service providers, as well as what community resources are available to assist Medicare beneficiaries in negotiating the program's new "web" of choices. Speakers will include Mary Ruchel J. Ramos, director of education, Medicare Rights Center, New York and Enzo Pastore, Committee to Preserve Medicare and Social Security, Washington, DC. Two moderated sessions will focus on implications for home-care, hospice and insurance options, and on community resources for Medicare recipients and professionals. The event will also include a dramatization by the Golden Thespians of the West Milford Office of Older Adult Services. The program is sponsored by William Paterson's Institute for Creative Aging, founded to serve as a resource for the region through community service, continuing and professional education, and research; William Paterson's Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning; the NJ State Nurses Association; the NJ Society for Public Health Education; and Chilton Memorial Hospital. For additional information or to register, call William Paterson's Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning at 973-720-2354. # # #
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