Author

Dr. Stan Goldberg is an expert in the areas of aging, human information processing, change, loss, and end-of-life issues. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Francisco State University, and his writing has received 26 national and international awards. He is available for workshops and presentations worldwide (press@stangoldbergwriter.com).

For 30 years, he trained clinicians, taught graduate students, and served the communicative needs of children, adolescents, and adults. For the last ten years, he counseled caregivers and seniors without charge. The practical guidance he provided to caregivers and seniors can be found in two books, Leaning Into Sharp Points: Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers and Loving, Supporting, and Caring for the Cancer Patient.

As someone living with cancer, he became a bedside hospice volunteer and, for eight years, served dying children, adolescents, and adults, as well as their families. His experiences as a hospice volunteer were contained in his internationally award-winning memoir, Lessons for the Living. Suggestions for counseling the dying are contained in the final chapter of Counseling in Communication Disorders

His 200+ articles and nine books range from the humor of riding an angry horse of the open range to the spirituality of holding an AIDS victim as he died. All the articles can be accessed, without charge, on his website: stangoldbergwriter.com.

His research and clinical practice led to breakthroughs in treating communication disorders in children, adolescents, and adults. He is a featured contributor for PsychologyToday.com, focusing on aging problems. New articles appear monthly on PsychologyToday.com, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

In his latest book, Preventing Senior Moments: How to Stay Alert into Your 90s and Beyond (Roman & Littlefield, October 2023), he opens a window into how we process information and offers insights into the direction our aging brain is moving, and how to break its decent. Through the use of scientifically-based strategies, he provides readers with the tools they need to simply, easily, and independently prevent senior moments that range from forgetting appointments to becoming disorientated.

While still writing on the issues he is known for—aging, loss, change, and human information processing—he has started a new career as a fiction writer. In his non-writing time, he sculpts wood and stone, crafts wooden flutes, and acts silly with his two granddaughters.