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MRHS Events
Speakers, Forums & Seminars
Morningside Health & Retirement Services (MRHS) continues its long tradition of holding special forums and speaking events for the residents of Morningside Gardens. To reach a wider audience, we use the "Zoom" platform to present some of our programs and seminars to our community which are both informative and entertaining. Below are just some of our recorded audio and video  presentations which are available for viewing, listening or downloading to enjoy at your own convenience.

To watch or download any of the programs listed below, simply click on the title link in blue.  If the presentation is an "audio" only recording, the accompanying PowerPoint presentation link is there to download and follow along.

2024 Programs

How MRHS Helps Seniors Grow Old in Their Own Homes  (NY1 News Segment, viewable only)
Program Description:  A special Spectrum NY1 News segment about how MRHS offers services to help seniors navigate their later years, such as a nurse, social workers, and occupational and physical therapists that go door-to-door to residents.
Date:  Produced by NY1 News, March 6, 2024
Strategies to Protect and Maximize Your Investments & to Build a Retirement Plan (Audio Podcast Only)
Program Description:  Live discussion about how to maximize and protect your investments, and how to build a Retirement Plan which works best for you.  (Audio podcast with separate PowerPoint presentation).
  • The PowerPoint presentation used in this seminar may be downloaded HERE
Host:  David Wharton, CFP, MBA, Director & Founder, Wharton Wealth Planning, LLC
Date:  January 23, 2024

2023 Programs

Depression Seminar  (PowerPoint Presentation ONLY)
  • The PowerPoint presentation used in this seminar may be downloaded HERE
Hosts: Natalie Malarczyk, Yaxayra Bermeo, Shamiris Molina, MRHS Nursing Student Interns
Date:  November 30, 2023
Introduction to Hearing Loss and Solutions: Tips and Tricks    (Audio Podcast Only)
  • The PowerPoint presentation used in this seminar may be downloaded HERE
Host:  Carolyn Stern, Director of Outreach, Center for Hearing and Communication
Date:  November 3, 2023
Understanding Hypertension (PowerPoint Presentation only)
  • The PowerPoint presentation used in this seminar may be downloaded HERE
Presenters:  Alyssa Palacios, Jesca Villareal, Clara Soriano, Nursing Student Interns
Date:  October 12, 2023
Estate Planning with Sherri Hughes, Esq.
  • The PowerPoint presentation used in this seminar may be downloaded HERE
Host:  Sherri Hughes, Attorney-at-Law
Date:  September 21, 2023

2022 Programs

Understanding Medicaid Eligibility: Basic Home Care and Nursing Home Eligibility
  • The PowerPoint presentation used in this seminar may be downloaded HERE
Host:  Douglas J. Chu, Esq., Hynes and Chu, LLP
Date:  September 29, 2022
How Can MRHS Help?
Program Description:  Live discussion of what MRHS is all about, the services they provide, how it impacts the lives of those living in the Morningside Gardens Community, and how MRHS can assist you in continuing to live and thrive in your apartment as you age.  A live community Q&A Session is included.
MRHS Staff:  Joanna Stolove, LCSW, Assoc. Director; Saudia Garnette, LCSW;  Stacia Steen, RN, BSN, Staff Nurse
Date:  August 11, 2022
Medicare Webinar
Program Description:  How and when to enroll in Medicare; out-of-pocket costs; traditional Medicare and Parts A&B; Provider Assignment Acceptance
Host:  Gil Kunkin, Medical Consultant, NYC Dept for the Aging/HIICAP Program
Date:  August 14, 2022
Preparedness as a Means of Control: Wills, Trusts, POAs, Health Care Proxies, Etc.
Hosts:  Douglas J. Chu, Esq. and Sherri L. Hughes, Esq.
  • The PowerPoint presentation used in this seminar may be downloaded HERE
Date:  July 20, 2022
Finding Purpose: Improving Your Physical Health & Well Being in Retirement
Host:  Dr. Jill Steinberg, PhD
Date:  May 26, 2022
Cognitive Aging
Host:  Dr. Richard P. Sloan, PhD, Professor of Behavioral Medicine at Columbia University
  • The Powerpoint presentation used in this presentation may be downloaded HERE
  • Information about the Columbia University Study on Cognitive Aging may be downloaded HERE
Date:  April 22, 2022
Restoring Your Fitness and Balance
Presenter:  Dr. Anat Lubetzsky, PT, PhD, CSCS at NYU Dept. of Physical Therapy
  • The PowerPoint presentation used in this seminar may be downloaded HERE
Date:  April 14, 2022
Medicare Update 2022
Program Description:  Medicare enrollment; costs and help with costs; Medicare choices
Presenter:  Eric Housman, New York City Dept for the Aging/HIICAP Program
  • The PowerPoint Presentation used in this seminar may be downloaded HERE
Date:  January 14, 2022

2021 Programs

Back To Basics 101:  A Financial Presentation with Attorney Sherri L. Hughes
Program Description:  Special 90 mins. with Sherri L. Hughes, Esq, speaking all about how to protect one of your most valuable investments... your MHHC Co-op.  This special presentation was recorded on Zoom and answers many questions regarding the ownership of your home and how co-ops work.
Host:  Sherri L. Hughes, Esq.
Date:  January 10, 2021
Living Into My Life
Host:  Joy Carol, Author of "Nine Lives of Joy"
Date:  April 21, 2021
Food for Thought: Estate Planning & Your Home at Morningside Gardens
Host:  Sherri L. Hughes, Esq.
Date:  February 4, 2021

Past Seminars

Essential Advance Planning.  The importance of being prepared in advance should an emergency occur, especially having a health care proxy, cannot be emphasized too strongly. As in past years MRHS and the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association invite you to participate in “Decision-Making Day.”  Attorney Frank Colella, will discuss wills, advance directives, the New York Health Care Proxy, the living will, powers of attorney, and procedures for organ donation. By preparing, you can ensure that your wishes are met in an emergency.
EPIC Talk: “Engineers in America – Early History”.  Guest speaker Mischa Schwartz, the Charles Bachelor Professor Emeritus in Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University chronicles infrastructure development in the United States in the early to mid-1800s.  He then follows briefly with the development of engineering education in the US concluding with the birth of Columbia’s School of Mines in 1864, and the department of Electrical Engineering within it in 1892. 
“Love, Maria”, with Guest Author Gregor Collins.  Mr. Collins discusses his book, The Accidental Caregiver, a moving memoir recounting his unique relationship with 92-year-old Holocaust refugee and Gustav Klimt heiress Maria Altmann. Altmann's extraordinary life inspired the movie "Woman in Gold" starring Helen Mirren. Collins had just finished a speaking tour in Australia and is excited to spread more of Maria's love in New York.
Renaissance Art and the Rise of Humanism, Prof. Philip Gould of Columbia University.  Erwin Panofsky noted that the "Arnolfini Wedding Portrait" marked the intersection of the profane and the sacred. In this presentation, the interaction of these two directions will be traced in European paintings from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century.  Philip Gould returns to MRHS to offer new insights into this theme. Highlighted will be examples from Flemish and Dutch art.  Professor Gould taught art history at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College and was a visiting professor at Fordham University, Pratt Institute and Parsons in New York, as well as at the University of Taiwan in Taipei and at Teachers College in Beijing. At present he is an associate member of the University Seminars at Columbia University. (This presentation was made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities).
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