EdD, Ball State University
MS, Indiana University
BS, Indiana University
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Dr. Candace Beitman is an associate professor. Candace has 28 years of clinical experience in psychiatric acute care, community-based senior wellness programs, and geriatric rehabilitation settings.
Dr. Beitman’s specialty areas of teaching, practice, and research include geriatric wellness, dementia and caregiver training, mental health, and interdisciplinary service-learning. She has presented short courses, papers and posters at local, regional, and national conferences including the American Occupational Therapy Association, International Service-Learning Symposia, and the Gerontological Society of America.
Dr. Beitman has been the recipient of multiple internal and external grant awards. She is currently teaching an interdisciplinary service-course for undergraduate students as the result of an internal interdisciplinary team teaching grant. Students in this course provide faculty- and graduate student-supervised wellness interventions to seniors living independently in the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) of Indianapolis; this project is funded by an external grant received through Elder Friendly Communities.
Dr. Beitman has published articles and book chapters in the Journal of Work (March, 2003), Service-Learning Paradigms: Intercommunity, Interdisciplinary, & International (2006), and Paradigms and Challenges in Service Learning and Higher Education (2008). Her continuing education article entitled, Wellness interventions in community living for older adults was published in the February 23, 2009 issue of OT Practice.
Candace is an active member of AOTA and IOTA and serves on the advisory board of the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community.
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