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Ripples
The e-Newsletter of the Geriatric Social Work Initiative
(GSWI)
Volume 1, Issue 4
June 12, 2003
Welcome to Ripples, an e-newsletter designed
to keep interested deans and directors, faculty members,
students, practitioners and others informed about the
work of the Geriatric Social Work Initiative (GSWI).
We welcome your feedback and encourage you to contribute
any story ideas, stories, resources, news and other
content to subsequent issues of the newsletter.
Don't Miss the NCSWC-2 Deadline
The deadline for submissions for the Second National
Gerontological Social Work Conference (NGSWC 2) is coming
up in just a day or so on June 15, 2003. The conference
will be held in Anaheim, CA on February 27th - March
4, 2004. Learn more.
Newly Released Book Presents Research of Social
Work Scholars
Springer Publishing Company has released Social Work
and Health Care in an Aging Society: Education, Policy,
Practice, and Research by editors Barbara Berkman, DSW,
and Linda Harootyan, MSW. This publication presents
the research of the first 10 scholars in the Hartford
Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Program. In presenting
the research, the editors clarify the value that social
work brings to the larger realm of health care for older
adults and their families. Special consideration is
given to such issues as case management, urban, African-American
elders, grandmothers raising grandchildren, aging persons
with developmental disabilities, home health care, and
more. For more information and to order your copy of
this publication, please visit the Springer Publishing
Company's Web Site at http://www.springerpub.com/books/social_work/pub_1543_8.html.
Journal Releases Special Issue on Social Work Education
The Journal of Gerontological Social Work has released
a special issue on Advancing Gerontological Social Work
Education. This special issue is divided into three
sections. Section I, Geriatrics and Gerontology in Social
Work Education, examines the development of geriatrics
and gerontology in social work educational programs.
Section II, School Based Initiatives, and Section III,
Models For Practice: Class and Field Curriculum Programs,
"focus on a range of specific projects and programs
designed to develop social workers for geriatric social
work practice." For more information and to order
your copy of this publication, please visit the Haworth
Press Web Site at http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=J083.
Investigating and Improving the Training of Aging
Services Personnel
GSWI.org, the Web site of the GSWI, is dedicated to
promoting the latest high quality research and making
it accessible to practitioners and other professional
audiences. Each month, we "digest" a current
piece of research. In this article, printed in the Journal
of Gerontological Social Work, authors Andrew Scharlach,
Jaimie Simon, and Teresa Dal Santo investigate the current
training levels of aging services personnel and discuss
ways to increase it for the future.
Learn more
Genetics Home Reference
The National Library of Medicine has launched Genetics
Home Reference, a site aimed at helping the general
public understand genes and genetics - http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov.
The target audience is the general public, and the language
is written at the high school level - for those who
remember "a little from their high school biology
course." A quick refresher course is available
by clicking the "help me understand genetics page,"
which talks about, for example, how genes can be turned
on and off in cells, what it means if a disorder seems
to run in a family, and the principles of gene mutation.
A helpful resource.
Aging States
This comes through our colleagues at the National Association
of State Units on Aging (NASUA). It is an article that
was written up last month in the National Governor's
Association Center Newsletter, and highlights the Aging
State Project, which was a collaborative effort to define
the state of health promotion and disease prevention
efforts in the states by the CDC, AoA, NASUA, and the
Chronic Disease Directors.
You can download a copy of the Aging States Report
from NASUA's website.
http://www.nasua.org/
The link to the article is:
http://www.nga.org/center/frontAndCenter/1,1188,T_CEN_HES^D_5396,00.html?hotOffThePress=1
Dear Marci
Dear Marci, a weekly electronic newsletter on Medicare
issues, is a service of the Medicare Rights Center (MRC),
the largest source of Medicare information and assistance
in the US. Founded in 1989, MRC helps older adults and
people with disabilities get good, affordable health
care. For more information about MRC, please visit www.medicarerights.org.
Consisting of Q&As, resources, statistics, timely
Medicare reminders and health tips, Dear Marci is a
great way to stay in the loop about Medicare benefits,
rights and options, and be part of the community of
folks working to ensure that older and disabled adults
get the health care they need.
To subscribe to the consumer version of Dear Marci,
please send an e-mail to dearmarci@medicarerights.org.
Type "subscribe consumer" in the subject line.
To subscribe to the professional version of Dear Marci,
please send an e-mail to dearmarci@medicarerights.org.
Type "subscribe professional" in the subject
line. You will receive a confirmation e-mail.
GSWI Program News
Nine New Faculty Scholars Named
Nine scholars have been selected as Hartford Faculty
Scholars and will receive $100,000 over the next two
years to improve the well-being of older adults by strengthening
geriatric social work. Find
out more and learn who this year's Scholars are.
Eunice Park Selected as Hartford Doctoral Fellow
The John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City and
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) have selected
Eunice Park as a Hartford Doctoral Fellow. Park, a doctoral
student in the School of Social Work at the University
of Maryland, Baltimore will receive a $40,000 grant
plus $20,000 in matching support from her home institution
to support her dissertation research project. Park's
dissertation topic examines Korean elderly in America
and their everyday life experiences and subjective well-being.
Learn more.
August 1 Deadline for Applications for Doctoral
Fellows
Don't miss the opportunity to apply to be among the
next cohort of Hartford Doctoral Fellows. For more information
about the program, as well as an application, please
click here.
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