Dr. Anne Kenny

MD

Founder
Together in Dementia

Website: https://togetherindementia.com/

Anne Kenny, MD, author of Making Tough Decisions about End-of-Life Care in Dementia and of Your True North: A Guided Journal for Those Living with Cognitive Loss or Dementia about Legacy, Love and Wishes for the End of a Life Well-lived, is a Professor of Medicine with specialty training and board certification in Geriatric Medicine, and Palliative and Hospice care. She has been a practicing physician for over 35 years and has been recognized by her peers as a “Top Doc” in Geriatric Medicine. She has been honored with a Brookdale National Fellow and the prestigious Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar awards.

Dr. Kenny has worked clinically as a geriatrician in nursing homes, assisted living, rehabilitation and clinical outpatient settings. Dr. Kenny has found joy in her work with individuals and their families managing issues related to the diagnosis of dementia. Her experience in partnering in the care of these families touched close to home when her own mother was diagnosed with dementia.

Dr. Kenny joined with her mother and her brothers and sister to provide the best care for her mother during the early and middle years following her mother’s diagnosis. Her expertise, coupled with her mother’s playful spirit and her sibling’s openness, support, intelligence and compassion, allowed for the highest functioning and independence of her mother for several years. Dr. Kenny’s expertise and experience in inpatient and outpatient Palliative and Hospice care were called on when her mother reached the final stages of living with dementia. The Kenny family worked together for their mother’s graceful exit from this planet.

In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Kenny lectures to both healthcare professionals and the public on aging-related issues such as osteoporosis, exercise, nutrition, hormone therapy, death and dying, and frailty. She is an educator of medicine and research skills. She taught and mentored clinical and research skills to all levels of trainees including medical students, post-graduate residents and fellows, and early faculty members. She has been active investigator participating in clinical research focusing on various aspects of aging. She has over 100 scientific publications and presentations focused on improving the care and functioning of older adults.

Anne Kenny, MD is the author of Making Tough Decisions about End-of-Life Care in Dementia, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in September 2018 outlines care, emotions, and communication issues at end-of-life in dementia. Her second book, coauthored with Teresa Webb, RN, Your True North: A Guided Journal for Those Living with Cognitive Loss or Dementia about Legacy, Love and Wishes for the End of a Life Well-lived offers a guide for persons experiencing cognitive loss to begin to explore their thoughts and wishes about their life and to prepare for the changes that dementia will bring.

In addition, she is Founder of Together in Dementia, which offers courses, consultation and hosts a blog focusing on issues common to Alzheimer’s and related dementias and caregiving. She is a Professor Emerita of Medicine with specialty training and board certification in Geriatric Medicine, and Palliative and Hospice care.