Charlene HarringtonCharlene Harrington, Ph.D., RN has been a professor at the University of California San Francisco since 1980 where she has specialized in long term care policy and research.' She was elected to the American Academy of Nursing in 1987 and the Institut of Medicine in 1996, and served on various IOM committees. She designed a model California long term care consumer information system website funded by the California Health Care Foundation and has maintained the site since 2002.' She has directed the national Center for Personal Assistance Services funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research since 2003 and a project on Medicaid home and community based services funded by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured since 1994.' She has testified before the US Senate Special Committee on Aging, and has written more than 200 articles and chapters and co-edited five books while lecturing widely in the U.S. Read More Read Less