Volume 1, Issue 2
December 13, 2004
In This Issue
- New Grants Awarded by Hartford Trustees (December 2004)
- Partnership with NIA Produces Latest Cohort of Beeson Scholars
- News from the JAHF Network
- Communications Tip: Marketing to Older People
1. New Grants Awarded by Hartford Trustees (December 2004)
The trustees of the JAHF recently approved the following major grants:
Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine
The John A. Hartford Foundation made three grants to create additional centers of excellence in geriatric medicine to increase the number of physician faculty dedicated to geriatrics. These grants allow academic health centers to provide support for fellows and junior faculty developing their careers in academic geriatrics as well as efforts to attract other medical school faculty to geriatric issues.
Cornell University , New York , NY
M. Carrington Reid, MD, PhD
Ronald Adelman, MD
Mark Lachs, MD, MPH
Grant amount: $450,000 over three years
Indiana University , Indianapolis , IN
Steven R. Counsell, MD
Grant amount: $450,000 over three years
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill , NC
Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD
Grant amount: $450,000 over three years
Copyright 2004 The John A. Hartford Foundation
Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry
An important part of providing quality health care to older adults is the ability to meet their mental health needs. Increasing the nation's capacity to deliver effective care to older adults with mental disorders depends in large measure upon increasing the number and quality of physician faculty specializing in geriatric psychiatry. In order to develop geriatric psychiatry faculty who will teach future physicians to provide good mental health care to older adults and create new knowledge, The John A. Hartford Foundation is providing support to establish centers of excellence in geriatric psychiatry. The Foundation's long experience using the centers of excellence in geriatric medicine mechanism to develop academic careers makes it an ideal approach to apply to geriatric psychiatry.
University of California , San Diego , San Diego , CA
Dilip V. Jeste, MD
Grant amount: $450,000 over three years
University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA
Charles F. Reynolds, III , MD
Grant amount: $450,000 over three years
Medical Student Summer Training in Aging Program
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), Inc., New York , NY
Odette van der Willik
Grant amount: $1,848,170 over five years
With Foundation support, the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), Inc. will continue to seek to increase the number of potential future geriatrics faculty by attracting medical students early in their career development. The project will draw excellent medical students toward such careers by supporting a structured summer experience with outstanding mentors and strong aging research opportunities and clinical exposure. Most students will enroll at one of five national training sites. Modest funds will be available to support students at schools with robust geriatrics programs who prefer to remain there. Ultimately, with substantial funding from the National Institute on Aging and various other foundations, this grant will recruit and prepare some 500 students.Translating Research into Practice: The Johns Hopkins Home Hospital
Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , MD
Bruce Leff, MD
John R. Burton, MD
Grant amount: $1,638,836 over three years
While older adults frequently need the treatments offered in hospitals, the hospital is one of the most dangerous settings of care for the elderly. Therefore, with Foundation support, Johns Hopkins University developed and demonstrated Home Hospital , a home-based alternative to acute hospital care for selected conditions of older persons. With this award, Johns Hopkins will spread the Home Hospital model to additional health systems around the nation and create the infrastructure for its continued spread. Building upon the expertise, materials, and people involved with the project over the last decade, Hopkins proposes activities to stimulate the model's adoption including marketing the benefits of Home Hospital, providing technical assistance and developing educational capacity. Ultimately, it is hoped five health care systems (three managed care, one Veterans Administration and Johns Hopkins) will adopt the model. Materials and expertise will be developed to support further adoptions.
Guided Care: Demonstration Project and Diffusion Planning
Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , MD
Charles E. Boult, MD
Grant amount: $1,880,467 over five years
Advancements in chronic disease care are needed for older patients to improve health, promote independence and reduce hospitalizations. Guided Care is a nurse-coordinated model that brings specially trained RN-level nurses into primary care practices to provide and coordinate high quality, evidence-based care for older adults with multiple complex chronic diseases. The John A. Hartford Foundation has made a grant to Johns Hopkins University to co-fund a rigorous demonstration of Guided Care to produce evidence regarding health benefits to patients, feasibility for health systems, and financial outcomes for payers. The grant is contingent upon funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
2. Partnership with NIA Produces Latest Cohort of Beeson Scholars
Earlier this year, the Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research program's private funders-The John A. Hartford Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and The Starr Foundation-partnered with the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and put the Beeson program on solid footing as it moves into its second decade. While the spirit and intent of the program-to create a cadre of physician-scientists to lead the field in the 21st century-remains, several changes have been made. The program's name is now the Paul Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research Program. NIA and the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), Inc. will share administrative responsibilities for the program, with AFAR conducting the Beeson annual meeting. Importantly, the size of the Beeson award will grow to between $600,000 and $800,000 over three years.
The program's latest cohort of 13 talented scholars from around the country and their research projects are:
Sandy Chang, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center : Telomere Induced Genomic Instability in Premature Aging
Cathleen Colon-Emeric, MD, Duke University Medical Center : Evidence-Based Medicine in the Skilled Nursing Facility
illiam Dale, MD, PhD, University of Chicago : Emotions in Medical Decision Making in Older Adults
Lee Goldstein, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital: Alzheimer's Disease Beta-Amyloid in the Lens
Cary Gross, MD, Yale University : The Impact of Comorbidity on Older Cancer Patients
John Lehman, MD, Washington University : Mitochondria Control by PCG-1a in Young and Aging Heart
Andrew Lieberman, MD, PhD, University of Michigan : Modifiers of Polyglutamine Toxicity
Atul Malhotra , MD , PhD, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital: Aging Influence on the Development of Sleep Apnea
Marcin Sadowski , MD , New York University School of Medicine: Blocking ApoE/A-Beta Binding as a Novel AD Therapy
Catherine Sarkisian, MD, University of California , Los Angeles , School of Medicine : Intervention to Raise Octogenarians' Walking Levels
Clemens Scherzer, MD, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital: Genomic and Genetic Analysis of Parkinson's Disease
Lisa Silbert, MD, Oregon Health & Science University : White Matter Change and CNS Process in the Elderly
Joe Verghese, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Latent Mobility Abnormalities and Disability
3. News from the JAHF Network
SWE to Create New National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education
During the past six years, The John A. Hartford Foundation has supported the development of gerontological social work curriculum standards and the creation of a clearinghouse for geriatric teaching tools. Two grants to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) have advanced the gero-teaching competence of almost 600 instructors through Faculty Development Institutes and supported the development of geriatric curricula at 67 schools of social work throughout the country.
In June 2004, the Foundation built on this work with a new effort to establish a National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education. The Center will develop regional, multi-year curriculum institutes at 64 schools of social work and conduct a variety of faculty workshops on infusing gerontological social work into the curriculum. It will also seek broader "policy" changes to encourage the inclusion of geriatric content throughout the social work education curriculum. For example, the Center will work with the accreditation board for social work education to stimulate wider adoption of the gerontological competencies in education programs. It will also promote geriatric-related content in social work textbooks and continue CSWE's successful National Gerontological Social Work Conference.
CSWE executive director Julia Watkins and University of Washington Professor Nancy Hooyman will serve as co-Principal Investigators on the project. For more information, contact Ashley Brooks at abrooks@cswe.org or Suzanne St. Peter at sstpeter@u.washington.edu.
Nursing Groups Launch Two New Web Sites
The programs of the Hartford Geriatric Nursing Initiative (HGNI)-the Foundation's multi-year, multi-project, $38 million investment designed to prepare professional nurses to play leadership roles in improving the health of adults-have recently launched two Web sites. The first, at www.hgni.org, describes the work of the HGNI generally with links and information about the Initiative's various projects and partners.
The second site, GeroNurseOnline (www.geronurseonline.org), is an effort of the Nurse Competence in Aging project, which is funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies and represents a strategic alliance among the American Nurses Association, the American Nurses Credentialing Center , and The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University . GeroNurseOnline is a comprehensive Web site providing current best practice information on the care of older adults. The project will soon designate Specialty Nurse Web Fellows to customize resources addressing geriatrics and specialty nursing practices such as oncology, critical care, medical surgical, and many other specialties.
Eight Additional 2004 Hartford Doctoral Fellows in Geriatric Social Work Selected
The John A. Hartford Foundation and The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) selected eight additional outstanding doctoral students for the Geriatric Social Work Doctoral Fellows Program in geriatric social work. The eight Hartford Fellows will administer dissertation projects that look at an array of issues in the geriatric social work field:
oonhee Ahn , New York University: Risk Factors for Depression Among Korean Elderly Immigrants
Karra Bikson, University of California , Los Angeles : Understanding Innovation in End-of-Life Care: Hospital-Based Palliative Care Programs
anghwa Lee Casado, University of Houston : The Effects of Appraised Caregiver Burden on the Utilization of Home- and Community-Based Formal Care among Primary Caregivers of Older Americans: Integrating the Health Behavioral and Caregiving Appraisal Models
Alexandra Crampton, University of Michigan : A Comparison of Mediation and Old Age in Ghana and the United States : Mediation as Intervention in Elder Advocacy
Angela Curl, Case Western Reserve University : The Impact of Retirement on Trajectories of Physical Health of Married Couples
Jerry Ingram, University of Iowa : Retirement Planning Among Baby Boomers: Do Role Clarity and Locus of Control Make a Difference?"
Hee Yun Lee, University of California , Los Angeles : The Social and Cultural Construction of Elder Mistreatment Perception and Help-Seeking Behavior among Elderly Korean Immigrants
harles A. Smith, University of Maryland , Baltimore : Social Work Gerontology Scholars: Research Status, Productivity, and Predictors of Quantitative Research Quality
2004 Social Work Faculty Scholars Selected
The John A. Hartford Foundation funded 12 Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars in 2004 through a grant to the Gerontological Society of America. The Faculty Scholars Program addresses the lack of adequately trained gerontological social work practitioners to meet the social and health care needs of today and tomorrow's rapidly increasing aging population. The 2004 scholars are:
Geri Adler, PhD, University of South Carolina : An Integrated Study of Driving Cessation in Older Adults with Dementia
Mercedes Bern-Klug, PhD, University of Iowa : National Survey of Nursing Home Social Workers
Kathy Black, PhD, University of South Florida , Sarasota/Manatee: Examining Case Managers' Advance Directive Communication Practices with Older Clients
Holly Dabelko, PhD, Ohio State University : The Association Between Services and Outcomes in Adult Day Health Care Programs
Vaughn DeCoster, PhD, University of Arkansas : Empowering African American Elders with Diabetes: An Application and Test of the Illness Intrusiveness Model
Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, PhD, University of Washington : Caregiving and Resiliency: The Role of Informal and Formal Supports
James Hinterlong, PhD, Florida State University : Race Disparities in Health Among Older Adults: Examining the Role of Productive Engagement
Terry Koenig, PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo : Transitions from Community to Assisted Living: Decision-making, Transitions and the Role of Social Workers
Eun-Kyoung "Othelia" Lee, PhD, Boston College : Does Spirituality Matter? Examining Race and Disability Status
Debra Parker-Oliver, PhD, University of Missouri : Videophones as a Geriatric Telemedicine Intervention for Social Work Practitioners
Daniel Rosen, PhD, University of Pittsburgh : Using the Chronic Care Model to Develop Treatment Approaches for Depression Among Older Adult Clients at a Methadone Clinic
racy Schroepfer, PhD, University of Wisconsin , Madison : Assessing the Psychosocial Needs of Terminally Ill Elders
4. Communications Tip: Marketing to Older People-Resource List
If your agency or organization directly serves older adults or would like to venture into that market, this useful resource list compiled by the Administration on Aging may be helpful. http://www.aoa.gov/prof/notes/Docs/Marketing_to_Seniors.pdf |
