Geriatric Case Management

Kristen Accisano is a passionate clinical social worker who specializes in helping individuals and families during difficult transitions.  She has experience working with all age groups. Her primary focus is with older adults and she is a fierce advocate for her clients. She worked for many years in the largest healthcare systems in NJ and is well known in the medical community.

Her experience began when she worked as an advocate for children living in violent communities in Belfast, Northern Ireland during The Troubles.  She was also the coordinator of a Senior Center in Lurgan, Northern Ireland where she facilitated group sessions and initiated a summer program that paired a child with an elderly member of the community for socialization and play. She has continued advocating for vulnerable populations throughout her education and career as a social worker offering in-home therapy for Holocaust survivors and assisting with filing grants with The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. She has also facilitated socialization and bereavement groups for those who lost loved ones in the Holocaust. 

Kristen also provides one on one counseling with agency and hospital nurses , first responders, and other caregivers to process the trauma of working with death and dying during the Covid pandemic.