Ruth Valentine

Our Elder Care Coordinator, Ruth Valentine, is a crtitical part of the solution to your needs.Ruth is able to assess a client's care needs and living situation in order to identify problem areas and assist in solving them.As an experienced care professional and member of our team, Ruth provides you with an added level of expert counsel not available from other elder law firms.
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Ruth Valentine

Another key team member is our Elder Care Coordinator, Ruth Valentine.Ruth brings a wealth of experience in care management services.
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Ruth Valentine

Our attorneys, Henry and Maria, in collaboration with our Elder Care Coordinator, Ruth Valentine, a social worker with over 37 years experience in healthcare, can draft an appropriate caregiver agreement that would satisfy these requirements.

October 9, 2007, Henry Levandowski, Esq. and Elder Care Coordinator, Ruth Valentine, MSW, LSW, presented a program entitled "Elder Care Planning" to employees at Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, LLP, a national law firm, headquartered in Philadelphia.

Ruth Valentine, MSW, LSW, Elder Care Coordinator 17 Mifflin Avenue, Suite 202, Havertown 19083E-Mail: maria@levandowskidarpino.com

Ruth Valentine

Ruth Valentine

Our People are Our Strength

Ruth Valentine, Elder Care Coordinator at Levandowski and Darpino,Ruth Valentine, our Elder Care Coordinator, has been a practicing social worker in health care for 38 years.She has had direct practice, supervisory, and management experience.She received her masters degree in social work from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 1970.

Ruth has worked in teaching hospitals in both Boston and Philadelphia and a community hospital in New Jersey, providing assistance to patients and their families as they navigated the health care continuum.In addition, Ruth was an administrator of an adult day program for clients with various functional difficulties, and most recently directed a geriatric resource center at a local health system that served more than 1200 clients by connecting seniors and their families with needed care and services in the community.

Ruth also organized and presented a variety of educational programs for seniors and their families, served on a number of community committees and advisory boards including the SeniorLAW Center in Philadelphia.Ruth and her husband are very proud of their award winning garden and their historical house, with the original structure dating from 1791.
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Ruth Valentine

RUTH VALENTINE, MSW, LSW, has been a practicing social worker in health care for more than 36 years.Currently she is an Elder Care Coordinator with the elder centered law practice of Levandowski & Darpino, LLC, where she is providing assessment of clients' needs to assist with planning for care.She received her master's degree in social work from Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey in 1970 and has worked in teaching hospitals in both Boston and Philadelphia and a community hospital in New Jersey, providing assistance to patients and their families as they navigated the health care continuum.She was an administrator of an adult day program for clients with various functional difficulties and most recently directed a geriatric resource center at a local health system that served more than 1200 clients by connecting seniors and their families with needed care and services in the community.Ruth also organized and presented a variety of educational programs for seniors and their families and served on a number of community committees and advisory boards.She has had direct practice, supervisory, and management experience.Ruth has a strong commitment to working with and advocating for seniors.Her current position in the elder law practice enables her to recognize the valuable work of the SeniorLAW Center.