Ageism and Dental Hygiene: Reeducating ourselves for better patient care, research and education

Registered dental hygienist, and adjunct instructor in the Valentine School of Nursing and in the interprofessional education program, Saint Louis University. She is also an adjunct instructor in the graduate periodontics program and in the Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, Dept of OTO-HNS at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and a gerontological clinical nurse specialist in the Abramson Cancer Center at the Pennsylvania Hospital within Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.