Volume 5, Issue 2
December 19, 2008
In This Issue
- Hartford Trustees Award New Grants (December 2008)
- The Foundation Welcomes Nora O’Brien as Senior Program Officer
- “State of the Science” Caregiving Report Co-authored by Hartford Nursing and Social Work Grantees
- Hartford Recognition at GSA
- Guided Care and Chad Boult Receive Awards
- Diane Meier Named MacArthur Foundation Fellow
- GSWI Announces YouTube Contest Winner
- Upcoming Hartford Program Deadlines
- Communications Tip: Easier Access, New Images Available on BandwidthOnline.org
1. Hartford Trustees Award New Grants
In December 2008, the trustees of the John A. Hartford Foundation approved the following grants:
Nursing Initiative Coordinating Center and Scholar Stipends Renewal
This grant to the American Academy of Nursing supports the continuation of its role operating the coordinating center for the John A. Hartford Foundation ’s Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Initiative, which aims to prepare more nurses to care for older adults by increasing the nation’s geriatric nursing faculty. The initiative includes scholarship and fellowship programs, annual leadership conferences, and ten Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at nursing schools across the country.
More information about the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Initiative, its coordinating center, the geriatric nursing faculty scholarship and fellowship program, and the Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence can be found at: www.geriatricnursing.org.
American Academy of Nursing, Washington, DC
Patricia Archbold, DNSc, RN
Grant amount: $9,354,654 over five years
Establishing a Geriatrics Workforce Policy Studies Center to Support Advocacy for Improved Geriatric Health Care
The Foundation awarded a grant to the American Geriatrics Society to establish a Geriatrics Workforce Policy Studies Center to serve as a source of data and communications in support of policy and advocacy efforts to expand the geriatrics health care workforce. The Center will also work more broadly to improve the availability and quality of health care for older adults, as recommended in the recent Institute of Medicine report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce. This work builds on the eight-year Status of Geriatrics Workforce Study, a comprehensive, longitudinal set of resources developed by the University of Cincinnati Department of Public Health Sciences on the growth and status of geriatric medicine, funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.
Information about the Status of Geriatrics Workforce Study can be found at: www.adgapstudy.uc.edu. For information about the policy and advocacy work of the American Geriatrics Society and the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs to improve health care for older adults, please visit: www.americangeriatrics.org/policy.
American Geriatrics Society, New York, NY
Nancy E. Lundebjerg, MPA
Grant amount: $499,456 over three years
2. The Foundation Welcomes Nora O’Brien as Senior Program Officer
The Foundation is delighted to announce that Nora O'Brien, MA, has joined us as a senior program officer. She will have responsibility for the Foundation’s social work grants and brings a wealth of experience in aging and foundation program development. In her 20-plus years in the field, Ms. O'Brien has been a geriatric social worker in community-based organizations, outpatient mental health clinics, and hospital settings. She has also conducted expert trainings on entitlement programs for elder law attorneys, provided eldercare consultation to corporations, and developed collaborative national and international partnerships resulting in research, publications, and programs working towards creating a society for all ages.
Ms. O'Brien has nine years experience as a program officer with the Brookdale Foundation, creating national direct service programs for older people as well as overseeing a national fellowship program in aging research. Additionally, Ms. O'Brien has served as the vice chair of the United Nations’ NGO Committee on Aging, the chair of the Gerontological Committee of the New York City National Association of Social Workers, and is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine where she also serves on the steering committee of the Social Work Section. Ms. O'Brien is completing her doctoral thesis at the Hunter School of Social Work and earned a master’s degree in gerontology and behavioral science at the California State University, Dominguez Hills.
3. .“State of the Science” Caregiving Report Co-authored by Hartford Nursing and Social Work Grantees
The Journal of Social Work Education (JSWE) and the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) recently published “State of the Science: Professional Partners Supporting Family Caregivers,” a report exploring the myriad issues involved in family caregiving.
Numerous Hartford grantees wrote and edited the multidisciplinary report, which is the result of a collaboration of the American Journal of Nursing, AARP Foundation, Council on Social Work Education, Family Caregiver Alliance, and Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. The partnership hopes to improve the knowledge and skills of nurses and social workers and provide practical, evidence-based tools to informal caregivers of older adults. Full-text articles are available on the AJN Family Caregiving web page (www.nursingcenter.com/library/static.asp?pageid=809507). The project was made possible by funding from the Hartford Foundation and the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation.
4. Hartford Recognition at GSA
Two Hartford-funded nursing projects recognized outstanding individuals at the Hartford Geriatric Nursing Initiative Leadership Conference and the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) 61st Annual Scientific Meeting in November. A current and a former Hartford grantee were also celebrated through two of GSA’s prestigious annual awards programs.
The Hartford Foundation’s Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity program gave the 2008 Mary Starke Harper Distinguished Lectureship to Gloria Smith, PhD, RN, FAAN, at the nursing Leadership Conference. Dr. Smith was recognized for her exceptional career in the nursing, health care, and health policy arenas, both in the U.S. and abroad. Prior to her retirement in 2001, she had served as vice president for programs in health at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (1991-2001) and as the dean of Wayne State University and the University of Oklahoma. She was also the first woman to head Michigan’s Department of Public Health. For more information about Dr. Smith and the Mary Starke Harper Distinguished Lectureship, please visit: www.geriatricnursing.org/leadership/2008/smith-msh-2008.asp.
GSA’s Health Sciences Section, in collaboration with the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, presented the 2008 Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award to Barbara Resnick, PhD, Professor of Nursing, University of Maryland School of Nursing. This award recognizes Dr. Resnick’s outstanding and sustained contribution to geriatric nursing research. For more information about the award, please visit: www.hartfordign.org/Research/awards/.
In addition, David Reuben, MD, director of the UCLA Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and director of the Hartford Foundation's Centers of Excellence for Geriatric Medicine at UCLA, received GSA’s Joseph T. Freeman Award for his contributions to the field. This lectureship in geriatrics is awarded to a prominent physician in aging involved both in research and practice. Also, at the meeting, former Hartford grantee Nancy Whitelaw, Senior Vice President at the National Council on the Aging, delivered the lecture associated with Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging, which she received in 2007.This talk focused on Whitelaw’s dynamic efforts, initially funded by the Hartford Foundation, to promote evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention programs. The Pollack award recognizes instances of practice informed by research and analysis, research that directly improved policy or practice, and distinction in bridging the worlds of research
and
practice.
To read about all of the awards presented at the 2008 GSA meeting, please visit: www.geron.org/images/pressreleases/2008/awards08.pdf
5. Guided Care and Chad Boult Receive Awards
Guided Care—an innovative, Hartford-funded model of team-based primary care for people with multiple chronic conditions—received the 2008 Archstone Foundation Award for Excellence in Program Innovation. The award is given annually by the Archstone Foundation and the Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association. To read more about the award, please go to: www.guidedcare.org/pdf/Guided%20Care%20Archstone%20Award%20Release_final.pdf.
In related news, the principal investigator of the Guided Care program, Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA, Professor of Public Health and Director of the Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University, has been named the recipient of the 2008 UCLA David H. Solomon Award in recognition of his role as an influential leader in the field of geriatrics. To learn more about the award, please visit: www.guidedcare.org/pdf/Soloman%20Award%20Release.pdf.
6. Diane Meier Named MacArthur Foundation Fellow
Diane Meier, MD, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mt. Sinai, became one of this year’s 25 MacArthur Foundation Fellows. The so-called “genius award” recognizes Dr. Meier’s creativity and accomplishments throughout her career to promote palliative care programs around the country and world. To read more about Dr. Meier and the MacArthur Foundation Fellows program, please visit: www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4537275.
7.GSWI Announces YouTube Contest Winner
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Hartford Foundation’s Geriatric Social Work Initiative (GSWI), in collaboration with the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work, recently announced the winner of its first-ever YouTube contest for social work students. The contest encouraged students at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels to create two-minute videos on the theme, “This is Social Work and Aging.” More than 30 entries were received. The winner of the contest, the Gerontology Student Association at Washington University in St. Louis, was announced at the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting on November 25, 2008. To view the video, please go to: gswi.org/youtubewinners.html.
8. Upcoming Hartford Program Deadlines
January 7, 2009
T. Franklin Williams Scholars Award
www.healthinaging.org/franklin_Williams
January 14, 2009
BAGNC Predoctoral Scholarship
www.geriatricnursing.org/applications/predoc-scholarship.asp
Claire M. Fagin Fellowship
www.geriatricnursing.org/applications/cmf-fellowship.asp
January 30, 2009
Chief Resident Immersion Training Program (CRIT) www.americangeriatrics.org/adgap/crit/default.asp
February 2, 2009
Hartford Faculty Scholars in Geriatric Social Work
www.gswi.org/programs/hfs.html
Hartford Doctoral Fellows in Geriatric Social Work
www.gswi.org/programs/hdf.html
February 6, 2009
Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program
www.afar.org/medstu.html
March 4, 2009
Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents Curricula Enrichment Grants www.americangeriatrics.org/specialists/gsr/default.asp
April 10, 2009
Gero-Ed Specialized Gerontology Program
depts.washington.edu/geroctr/Center2/sub2_10_1SpecGero.html
May 1, 2009
Hartford Pre-Dissertation Awards in Geriatric Social Work www.gswi.org/programs/predissertation.html
9. Communications Tip: Easier Access, New Images Available on BandwidthOnline
Responding to suggestions raised in an initial evaluation of the site, we’re pleased to announce that you (and your colleagues and students) no longer need a password to access virtually all of the content at www.BandwidthOnline.org, the Foundation’s online communications resource.
A password is now only needed to see and use the Images section of Bandwidth. And this month, we’ve added 16 new, original photographs by documentarian Annie Levy. These images, available at no charge, depict diverse older adults engaged in a variety of daily activities. To see these and other no and low-cost photos and to learn about using images to strengthen your communications efforts, please visit:
www.bandwidthonline.org/images.asp. (If you don’t have a password, or have forgotten yours, please contact Chris Gherst at cgherst@aboutscp.com). |
