Staff
The Generations Team
VICKI SHERMAN (DOUECK), MSW, LCSW, ASWCM – PRESIDENT / CEO
Ms Sherman has been a leader in the field of geriatrics for over twenty-five years. As Coordinator of Geriatric and Outpatient Services at Douglas Gardens Community Mental Health Center, a division of the Miami Jewish Home and Hospital she developed and implemented demonstration programs for clients with dementia that serve as a standard of care to this day. Before founding GENERATIONS she was a director at the Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford, Jewish Family Service of Bergen County and Mid-Bergen Community Mental Health Center. In 1987 Ms Sherman founded the agency and has guided it to a position as the premier provider of services to the elderly, disabled and their families throughout New Jersey.
OUR CLINICAL STAFF
RISA AGIN LEVIN , LCSW – CARE MANAGER
Ms Agin Levin has a diverse background as a social worker having worked in St. Margaret’s Hospital for Women, Jewish Family and Children’s Service and Family Service Association in the Boston area. For five years she provided social work services to home bound patients for Rush Home Care Network in Chicago. Her most recent involvement with Englewood Hospital Home Health Services gave her the opportunity to use her experience and skills conducting psychosocial assessments, evaluating client’s in-home care needs and providing long term care planning through in-home visits and family counseling. Ms. Agin Levin joined GENERATIONS to manage our contractual case management and monitoring commitments to the local community and state wide programs.
JENNIFER PERELMAN, RN; UK – CARE MANAGER
Ms Perelman has more than 35 years of experience as a registered nurse and corporate overseer of over 17 long-term care facilities throughout the United Kingdom. Prior to joining GENERATIONS she was a General Manager with Marriott Assisted Living. Ms Perelman is our care manager for cases that present medical priorities that require negotiating medical systems; dealing with complex family relationships and consulting on long term care monitoring and placement.
MARIE T. THORPE, RN – CARE MANAGER
Ms Thorpe has been a registered nurse for over forty-five years in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Since 1984 she was the Director of Residential Services at Eastern Christian Children’s Retreat in Wyckoff, NJ, Hospice Nurse at Hospice of the Valley in San Jose, CA and Community Health Nurse at Valley Home Care in Paramus, NJ. Her extensive experience in providing care to the disabled, elderly and critically ill gives Ms Thorpe the opportunity to provide an insightful approach to care management and service for GENERATIONS clients and their families.
MARGO TUCKER, MSW, LSW, CSW – CARE MANAGER
Ms Tucker joined the GENERATIONS team with twelve years experience in medical social work and care management. After receiving her Masters of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Tucker worked for the Office on Aging and the Philadelphia Veterans Administration. Her seven-year tenure with Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York encompassed a variety of duties including discharge planning in the geriatric unit, coverage of the Emergency Unit for crisis intervention, resource coordinator for the social work department and supervisor of medical students in compassionate care. Ms. Tucker is a certified social worker in New York.
SHARON MCCOBIN, MSW, LCSW – PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Ms McCobin has practiced as a clinical social worker for over twenty-five years. She has expertise in the treatment of depression, grief, life-stage issues, and trauma and in working with family and community systems. Ms McCobin works with GENERATIONS‘ clients in their homes as well as in assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. Her clinical skills enable her to work with a variety of clients and their families and help them meet the challenges of aging.
OUR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
JIM LOCOCO – EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT / CFO
Mr. Lococo brings over 30 years of executive level experience in financial management, business development, technology management and systems design and development. Before joining GENERATIONS, he was the Chief Financial Officer of The Renfrew Centers, Inc., an internationally recognized mental health organization that provide service for women with eating disorders.
The GENERATIONS team is completed by a dedicated support staff that includes: reception, business office management and billing. GENERATIONS has also utilized the talents, enthusiasm and energies of graduate students in social work serving to insure there will be a “next generation” of compassionate, highly skilled professionals to serve the geriatric community. GENERATIONS is affiliated with professional care managers throughout the country and can coordinates services in most areas of the nation.
