Mary Kaplan

Mary Kaplan, M.S.W., is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked in health care and geriatrics for over four decades as a clinician, administrator, educator, consultant, and community activist. An instructor since 1971, Kaplan served for 13 years as Director of the Student Internship Program at the University of South Florida School of Aging Studies, where she taught courses on mental health and aging, geriatric care management, and Alzheimer’s disease. She earned a bachelor’s degree in social work from State University of New York at Buffalo and a master’s degree in social work from Catholic University.

Kaplan is the author/coauthor of three books on dementia care (Behaviors in Dementia, Special Care Programs for Persons with Dementia, and Clinical Practice with Caregivers of Dementia Patients), as well as two additional books on African American history (Solomon Carter Fuller: Where My Caravan Has Rested and The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and Its Black Physicians).

The author has conducted workshops and presentations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia. Having retired from professional practice, she serves as a mental health volunteer for the American Red Cross.