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Matthew Morrison

Matthew is a dedicated LiLY volunteer and health advocate. Dr. Morrison is an Emergency Physician at BronxCare Health System, and teaches the next generation of doctors studying at Yale with a focus on Medical Humanities. He is…

Norma MT Braun, MD, FACP, FCCP

  Photo IDClinical Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine Mount. Sinai Morningside (St. Luke’s) – Mt. Sinai West (Roosevelt) Ombudswoman and Chair, Archives Committee Department of Medicine: Senior Attending, Pulmonary/…

Jennifer Beisser

  Jennifer Beisser joins LiLY’s board after five years as a volunteer. She is the current Executive Director of the Morningside Area Alliance, a 70-year old membership association of the nation’s leading academic and religious…

Audrey Wu

  Audrey Wu is a printmaking and mixed media artist whose work is in collections in America, Europe and Asia.  She is also a veteran producer with over twenty years of experience of executive conferences, summits and thought-leadership…

John Hailu

  John Hailu began his career in Information Technology in 1977. He has worked as a Performance Analyst at Citibank. He was a Systems Programmer and Systems Administrator for nine years for the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, NASA;…

Lois Freedman, CPA

Lois Freedman, CPA began her career in late 1970s as an industry accountant. During the 1980s, she worked on Wall Street in a variety of roles, and has been in public accounting since 1990. Her practice is a family-owned full-service accounting…

Press Release September 8, 2023

IRENE ZOLA, NYC AGING IN PLACE LEADER, FOUNDER OF LiLY, DIES AT 78 With great sadness, the LiLY organization (Lifeforce in Later Years) announces news of the sudden and unexpected passing of LiLY’s founder and executive director, Irene…
Irene Zola Aging in Place NYC Leader and LiLY Founder
Irene Zola Aging in Place NYC Leader and LiLY Founder

CARING CONNECTIONS STORIES

You can well imagine how 89 year old Mrs. S.* felt during heart failure to have Risa*, her LiLY volunteer, by her side, holding her hand for the time between when EMS arrived and 8 hours later when Mrs. S. was comfortably asleep in the I.C.U. …

Patricia Gatling

Director Patricia L. Gatling is an attorney with a career spanning the public and private sectors. Her current practice focuses on transportation law, employment law and employee benefits, government relations, litigation, alternative dispute…

Ron Bruno, LSW

Ron Bruno, LSW | Morningside Health & Retirement ServicesSince 1997, Ron Bruno has served as Executive Director at MRHS, which is one of New York’s first NORC’s. Prior to this position, he was Director of Social Work at Amsterdam…

Our Mission

To enhance the well-being of our oldest community members through free-of-charge services offered by a corps of dedicated volunteers, expand community care models nationally, and raise the public visibility of ways to honor and care for…