Ann Elizabeth Carson is a recently retired psychotherapist and consultant in private practice. She worked with individuals, couples and families with a particular interests in life stage transitions, memory, brain plasticity and expressive therapies. As an older person Ann brings both personal experience and professional expertise to helping older people and their families with the re-definition of our meanings of health, of the aging process and of being elderly. Her own experience with several debilitating chronic illnesses makes her sensitive to the individual, familial and work related areas of concern which individuals and their families must deal with, and alert her to alternative and community resources for health care. Ann Elizabeth consults occasionally by appointment.