As for­mer direc­tor of a long-dis­tance-care­giv­ing non-prof­it, elder­care author & advo­cate, Jean has tes­ti­fied at Con­gres­sion­al hear­ings & appeared on (e.g.) the Today Show plus local/​national TV/​radio, & at the NY Armory Book Fair. She has been a high-school his­to­ry teacher; Nader’s Raider; researcher at the Brook­ings Institution/​National Acad­e­my of Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion; & co-founder of The Work­place, Inc., Wash­ing­ton DC’s first salon-type shared-office suite. Her How to Care for Your Par­ents: A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Elder­care (lat­est edi­tion Nor­ton, 1997) (a ​“Bet­ter Books for Life” final­ist with 65,000 col­lec­tive copies sold) led to her 13-year stint as direc­tor of Car­ing From a Dis­tance (www​.cfad​.org). She has served on a U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee, the 1995 White House Con­fer­ence on Aging, & life­long-learn­ing advi­so­ry com­mit­tees plus syn­a­gogue, men­tal health & women busi­ness-own­er boards. She is co-author of Two Pianos: Play­ing for Life.