Results List
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Tides Center – The Center for Y2K and Society
$378,568
Resource type: Grantee
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George Washington University – Center on Aging, Health & Humanities
$722,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Burden Center for the Aging, Inc.
$100,000
Resource type: Grantee
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In Act 2 of Life, Doing Work That Matters
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By Jane E. Brody Dr. Peter I. Pressman decided to retire in 2003 after 40 years as a New York breast cancer surgeon much admired by his patients for the time and skill he devoted to them and their families. He was 68,…
Resource type: News
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Aging and Community: ASA Presents National Forum on Civic Engagement
Source: American Society on Aging
Original Source The 2009 ASA-NCOA Aging in America Conference devoted a full day on March 16th to a National Forum on Civic Engagement, which presented best practices in civic engagement inspired by the 2006-2007 winter issue of ASA’s journalGenerations, Civic Engagement in Later Life. A…
Resource type: News
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Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program Now Accepting Applications
Source: Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program
Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce the 2nd year of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program, a unique professional fellowship opportunity. Supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies and directed by Harold Alan Pincus, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University (in collaboration with the…
Resource type: News
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Older and still toiling
Source: The Boston Herald
by TENLEY WOODMAN Gone are the golden days of retirement spent playing golf or spoiling the grandchildren. A sluggish economy and higher costs for food, utilities and health care has Americans 65 years and older saturating in the work force in growing numbers to make…
Resource type: News
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The Foundation Center Elects Two New Board Members: Marcia Smith and Valdemar de Oliveira Neto
Source: The Foundation Center
NEW YORK, May 19 -- The Foundation Center, the nation's leading authority on organized philanthropy, has elected two new trustees to its board: Marcia A. Smith and Valdemar Neto (known as "Maneto"). Ms. Smith is senior vice president at The Atlantic Philanthropies, a global foundation…
Resource type: News
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Segal receives grant for aging-related research
Source: Media-Newswire.com
Original Source Neil Segal, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1.18 million grant from the Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research Program. Segal…
Resource type: News
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Organizations Provide $8.7 Million to Launch a National Center to Improve Care for Complex Patients
Source: Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
CAMDEN, N.J.—The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers announced plans to establish a national center to improve care for high-need patients who experience poor outcomes despite extreme patterns of hospitalizations or emergency care. Inefficient and ineffective care of these patients has been identified as a driver…
Resource type: News