Mary Adelaide Mendelson

Background

Mendelson, Mary Adelaide was born on August 13, 1917 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

Education

AB, Radcliffe College, 1939; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1940; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Cleveland State University, 1981.

Career

Case worker, Children's Aid Society, Detroit, 1940-1941; Case worker, Home Svc. American Red Cross, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1941-1942; assistant director, Home Svc. American Red Cross, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1942-1946; teacher, Laurel Sch.Shaker Hts., Ohio., 1959-1963; instructor polit science, Cuyahoga Community School, Cleveland, 1963-1964; staff director nursing homes, Federation Community Planning, Cleveland, 1965-1973; director, Nursing Home Advisory & Research Council, Cleveland Hts., Ohio., since 1975.

Lecturer in field; consultant Department Health, Education & Welfare, Washington, 1975. Task force member Governor's Conference Aging, Ohio, 1971-1972, Ohio Department Health Nursing Home Regulations, Columbus, 1981-1985. Committee member Ohio Department Health Advisory Committee, Columbus, since 1972, Federation Community Planning, 1981-1987.

Achievements

• Mary Adelaide Mendelson has been listed as a noteworthy geriatric services administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Tender loving greed: How the incredibly lucrative nursing home "industry" is exploiting America's old people and defrauding us all

    (Health Care, Social Studies)

  • Tender Loving Greed - 2009 Notes

    (The 1974 George C. Polk Award exposé that blew the lid of...)

  • Tender Loving Greed - 2009 Notes by Mendelson, Mary Adelaide (2009) Paperback
  • Tender Loving Greed - 2009 Notes Paperback - October 23, 2009
  • Tender Loving Greed - 2009 Notes by Mary Adelaide Mendelson (2009-10-23)

Membership

Board of directors Office Price Stabilization, Cuyahoga County, 1946. President Radcliffe Club, Cleveland, 1951, League of Women Voters, Shaker Hts., 1952. Candidate City Council, Cleveland Hts., 1961, 63.

Member Junior League Cleveland (Frances Parke Bolton award 1975), Harvard University Club Cleveland.

Interests

• Avocations: reading, bicycling.

Connections

Daughter of Paul Walton and Florence S. (Diamond) J. Divorced; children: Walton L., Philip H.

Father:

Paul Walton J.

Mother:

Florence S. (Diamond) J.

child:

Walton L. Mendelson

child:

Philip H. Mendelson