Roni Lang is a licensed clinical social worker who has specialized in treating older adults and their families for over 40 years. She recently retired after 22 years from the Department of Psychiatry at Greenwich Hospital. She previously worked as the director of geriatric assessment at Stamford Hospital and, before that, as a clinical social worker at the Motion Picture and Television Fund, a CCRC for older adults in the entertainment industry. Additionally, she had a private practice treating older adults. Roni obtained a master’s degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin. She went on to complete two postgraduate programs: one in Gerontology from the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College, and one in Mental Health and Aging from California State University- Los Angeles.  

In 2022, she was awarded Social Worker of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers. She is an adjunct instructor at UCONN, Stamford, and has taught classes on Adult Development and Aging, Aging in American Society, Gender and Aging, and Death, Dying, and Bereavement. Additionally, she previously taught post-graduate classes on aging at Hunter College’s Brookdale Center on Aging. She is a board member for Silver Source and a member of the Stamford Advisory Council on Aging. She is currently doing some training on caregiving issues for Caring Kind, an organization in New York providing supportive and educational programs for people with memory disorders and their families. She says the motto that guides her professional life, adapted from Maya Angelou, is, “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it”.