Great Seminars & Books (GSB)

The seeds for GREAT Seminars and Books (GSB) were planted in 1958 when I was 5 years old and went to Miami Beach with my Grandparents. I loved being with older adults and hoped one day to make a difference in their lives. Then in 1978, when I was working on my master’s degree in Gerontology at the University of Southern California, I delivered a 3-minute talk to my class. After the presentation, a nurse, who owned a seminar company specializing in geriatrics, offered to pay me to deliver one-day talks on geriatrics for rehabilitation professionals. Off I went. I began in Flint, Michigan with 6 slides and 7 class participants and ended in NYC with 40 slides and 150 participants. I continued to lecture for various companies and years later I realized that I had a different vision from the people who owned these companies.

My vision was to own an educational company that presented current, research-based information on what clinicians could do every day to increase to improve their outcomes in working with older persons. Thus, GREAT (Geriatric Rehabilitation, Education And Training) Seminars was born. With the help of the world’s greatest executive director, my sister, Neila Waugh, we created Great Seminars and Books.

Vision:
I love physical therapy! And as a practicing PT, I know that keeping up with the latest, most powerful, research-based techniques is tough. That’s why I developed GSO – to help you stay on top of the information that can make the biggest impact on patient results.

Check us out. We aren’t the Amazon of education; we’re a highly engaging, center of learning specializing in continuing education for therapists working with older patients.

Our leadership team consists of 3 PhDs and our instructors are clinical experts who know how to translate research into practical, effective clinical interventions.

Our goal is to help you work smarter, not harder, to get your patients better. Boring lectures are not the answer! We keep you engaged as we discuss the latest techniques, and we use real, older patients as we bring new ideas to life.