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Ripples
The e-Newsletter of the Geriatric Social Work Initiative
(GSWI)
Volume 3, Issue 4
April 12, 2005
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. To make
a contribution or to subscribe to this e-newsletter,
please contact Carrie Smith at csmith@geron.org.
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Grants &
Awards
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| Beat May 2 Deadline for Hartford
Doctoral Fellows Pre-Dissertation Award |
| Up to 20 students will be selected
and be brought to The Gerontological Society of
America's (GSA) Annual Meeting and will attend an
institute there conducted by the Association for
Gerontology Education and Social Work (AGE SW).
These same students will be brought to the Society
for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Conference where
they will participate in an all-day institute that
focuses on grant writing and research funding. For
more information, click
here. |
| Mit Joyner Gerontology Leadership
Award |
| Nominate a colleague
or yourself for this prestigious award. The deadline
for nominations is May 5, 2005. Information and
forms are available on the Association for Gerontology
Education in Social Work (AGE
SW) and Baccalaureate Program Directors (BPD)
websites. The awardee will be honored at the BPD
Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, November 2-6, 2005. |
| NIH/NIA: New Aging Research Dissertation
Awards |
| NIA announces the availability of
dissertation awards (R36) in all areas of research
within the Institute's mandate to increase the diversity
of the research workforce on aging. These awards
are available to qualified pre-doctoral students
in accredited research doctoral programs in the
United States. NIA expects to award $250,000 to
$300,000 annually beginning in FY 2006 to support
6 to 8 dissertation awards. For more information,
click
here. Applicant receipt dates are: 11/15/05,
06, and 07; 3/15/06 and 07. |
| Alzheimer's Foundation Grant for
Innovative Care |
| The Alzheimer's Foundation of America
(AFA) has announced it will award an annual grant
for an innovative program or service that improves
the lives of individuals with Alzheimer's (and related
illnesses) and their families. The $20,000 Brodsky
Grant will be awarded to one of AFA's member organizations.
Organizations that become members prior to the grant
deadline of May 15, 2005 are eligible for this year's
award. For more information, click
here. |
| NIH/NIA: Developmental Research
on Elder Mistreatment (RFA-AG-05-009) |
| NIA announces the availability of
Exploratory/Developmental awards (R21) to initiate
the systematic study of Elder Mistreatment. Several
of the more basic priority areas elaborated in the
National Academy of Sciences publication "Elder
Mistreatment, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in
an Aging America" (2004) are included in this
solicitation. NIA expects to award approximately
$1,700,000. Six to eight awards are anticipated.
For more information, click
here. |
| NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship in
Geriatric Mental Health Services Research |
| This NIMH-funded (T-32) two-year postdoctoral
Research Training Program provides fellowship training
in health services research for older adults with
mental disorders to psychiatrists, psychologists,
and social/behavioral scientists who are committed
to becoming independently supported mental health
services researchers. The program is part of a three-site
Research Training Cooperative that brings together
expert faculty from Dartmouth (S. Bartels, PI),
Cornell (M. Bruce), and the University of Washington
(J. Unützer). For more information, click
here. |
| NIH Roadmap Administrative Supplements
to Support Interdisciplinary Research |
The National Institutes of Health
announces the availability of one-year
administrative supplements aimed at stimulating
interdisciplinary research,
in humans, that integrates the behavioral or social
sciences with the
biological sciences. Deadline is June 15, 2005.
Learn
more.
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| NIH: Drug Abuse Dissertation Research |
| The National Institutes of Health
invites applications for support of drug abuse doctoral
dissertation research in epidemiology, prevention,
treatment, services, and women and sex/gender differences.
Funding support of dissertation research is provided
through the NIH Dissertation Award mechanism. Deadlines
are: October 1, February 1, and June 1 through March
2, 2008. Learn
more. |
| Resources |
| Promote Your School to Students
and Faculty Across the Country! |
| Place an ad in the first edition of
Careers in Gerontological Social Work: A Special
Issue published by the Hartford Geriatric Social
Work Initiative. The publication will be available
September 2005. The cost of a ¼ page ad is
only $100, a ½ page ad is $200, and a full
page ad is $400. For more information about the
publication, click
here. To obtain advertisement specifications
and an order form, contact Carrie Smith at csmith@geron.org
or (202) 842-1275 ext. 111. |
| Gero-Ed Center Website Launched |
| The new Gero-Ed Center website provides
an extensive collection of high quality, updated,
and diverse resources to help you "gerontologize"
your courses. Visit www.Gero-EdCenter.org
to explore the resources offered. If you have suggestions
or would like to submit resource materials, please
send to Suzanne
St. Peter, Center co-Director. Note: The SAGE-SW
and Gero-Rich websites will no longer be maintained.
Best practices, resources, and lessons learned from
those two sites are now available on the new Gero-Ed
Center website. |
| Call for Resources from CSWE |
A compilation of modules, syllabi,
and other resources in the education of BSW and
MSW students in end-of-life care issues is planned
for publication by the Council on Social Work Education
(CSWE). Click
here for a list of resources to be included.
You may submit your resources electronically or
via regular mail (on disk) by April 30, 2005 to:
Ellen L. Csikai, PhD, The University of Alabama,
School of Social Work, Box 870312, Tuscaloosa, AL
35487-0314; email: ecsikai@sw.ua.edu, phone: (205)
348-4447, fax: (205) 348-9419.
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| Research Training Opportunity |
| NIH Office of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Research is sponsoring a Summer Institute
to address essential conceptual, methodological,
and practical issues involved in planning and carrying
out research on psychosocial interventions. The
Institute will take place in Washington, DC from
July 18-22. For more information, click
here. |
| The New Politics of Old Age Policy:
a New Book Edited by Robert B. Hudson |
| As the aging population of the United
States continues to increase, age-related policies
have come under intense scrutiny and have sparked
heated debates. Demographic, economic, and political
trends have transformed the understanding of older
people's role in America's public policy. The New
Politics of Old Age Policy offers a variety of perspectives
on these policy issues-particularly the relative
merits of using chronological age to determine eligibility
for government programs. For more information and
to purchase a copy, click
here. |
| Research
& News |
| Special Issue: "Aging and
Older Men: Thoughts, Reflections, and Issues" |
| This recent special issue of The Journal
of Sociology and Social Welfare, XXXII (30), 2005,
is co-edited by Robert Blundo and Deborah E. Bowen,
from the Department of Social Work at the University
of North Carolina at Wilmington. |
| Retirement Wealth Shortfalls for
Americans on the Verge of Retirement |
| A working paper has been released
from the Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC)
entitled, "Shortfalls and Delayed Retirement,"
by Olivia S. Mitchell and John W. R. Phillips (WP
2005-094, February 2005. |
| AARP Prime Time Radio: Taking
Care of Your Elderly Parents When They Didn't Take
Care of You |
| This radio discussion focuses on the
issue of parents who never really took care of their
children becoming dependent on these children. According
to psycho-analyst Roberta Satow, caring for our
parents, and doing it with love, is the only thing
to do. Dr. Satow joins host Mike Cuthbert in a discussion
about her new book, Doing the Right Thing. To listen,
click
here. |
| Announcements |
| The New York Academy of Medicine
Receives $5.1 Million Grant |
| SThe New York Academy of Medicine
(NYAM) has been awarded a four-year, $5.1 million
grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation to educate
hundreds of social workers to care specifically
for older adults, a population that will swell as
the nation's 78 million graying baby-boomers reach
official senior citizen status. Combined with a
second $3.8 million grant that the Foundation has
pledged to the Academy for 2009, the funds will
ultimately allow more than 1,000 social workers
to be trained as elder care specialists by 2013.
Learn
more. |
| Congratulations to Hartford Faculty
Scholar, Dr. Carmen Morano |
| Carmen Morano, Cohort IV Scholar,
was recently named "Educator of the Year"
by the Maryland Chapter of NASW. If you wish to
congratulate Carmen, you can email him at CMORANO@ssw.umaryland.edu. |
| Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Mahoney |
| Dr. Kevin Mahoney has been awarded
promotion to Professor at Boston College School
of Social Work. If you wish to congratulate Dr.
Mahoney in his most recent well-deserved honor,
his e-mail address is kevin.mahoney@bc.edu. |
| Hartford Welcomes Kimberly Carron
and Sarah Sisco |
- Kimberly Carron joins Hartford as the
new Program Coordinator for the Hartford Faculty
Scholars Program, directed by Dr. Barbara Berkman.
Kimberly graduated from Connecticut College
with a BA in psychology in 2003 and is enrolled
in the part-time master's program of the Columbia
University Business School.
- Sarah Sisco, MPH, MSSW, has joined
Hartford as the new Program Officer for the
Social Work Leadership Institute at the New
York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). Sarah will
oversee and direct the implementation of the
Practicum Partnership Program (PPP). She will
be working with Pat Volland, Principal Investigator
of the PPP. Sarah has spent two and half years
as Project Director for numerous community-based
partnership programs. She holds a Master of
Science in Social Work degree from Columbia
University School of Social Work, a Master of
Public Health (Sociomedical Sciences) degree
from the Mailman School of Public Health, and
specializes in issues of underserved populations,
international urban health, and community-based
participatory research. We welcome these wonderful
additions to the Hartford family.
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