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Ripples
The e-Newsletter of the Geriatric Social Work Initiative
(GSWI)
Volume 3, Issue 5
May 13, 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.
Special Announcement: May is
Older Americans Month!
Our nation is in the midst of a boom in the aging
population. Older people are living longer, staying
healthier and are more active much later in life.
In 2011 the first wave of the 78-million-person
Baby Boom generation turns 65. The 2005 Older Americans
Month theme, "Celebrate Long-Term Living"
was selected by the Administration on Aging (AoA)
to recognize and honor the valuable contributions
older persons make to their communities as they
age. For more information on how you can celebrate
Older Americans Month, click here.
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1. New Resources
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| NIHSeniorHealth Offers Information
about Health Topics |
| Older Americans are increasingly
turning to the Internet for health information.
The National Institute on Aging in collaboration
with the National Library of Medicine has designed
a Web site with these older adults in mind. NIHSeniorHealth
features short, easy-to-read segments of information
that can be accessed in a variety of formats, including
various large-print type sizes, open-captioned videos,
and an audio version. The latest topic added to
the site has to do with sleep and aging. Additional
topics coming soon to the site include problems
with taste and smell, eye diseases, stroke, and
osteoporosis, the NIH said. To access the site,
go to http://nihseniorhealth.gov/. |
| White House Conference on Aging
Resolutions |
| The resolutions developed
at the joint AGE SW/NCGSW session at CSWE have now
been compiled and are posted on the AGE SW website
(www.agesocialwork.org) and the Gero-Ed Center website
(www.Gero-EdCenter.org). Thanks to Anita Rosen,
Cathy Tompkins, and Ashley Brooks for their work
in quickly compiling these resolutions and submitting
them to the White House Conference on Aging. |
| AHRQ Launches New Web Site Designed
To Provide Single National Source for Patient Safety
Findings and Resources |
| The Agency for Healthcare and Research
announced a new Web site, Patient Safety Network,
or PSNet - a national, "one-stop" portal
of resources for improving patient safety and preventing
medical errors. PSNet is the first comprehensive
effort to help health care providers, administrators,
and consumers learn about all aspects of patient
safety. The site provides a wide variety of information,
resources, tools, conferences, and more. PSNet users
can customize the site around their unique interests
and needs by creating a "My PSNet" page.
For more information, click here
to view AHRQ's press release. |
| New Journal: Clinical Interventions
in Aging |
Clinical Interventions in Aging is
a new international, peer-reviewed journal focusing
on evidence-based reports on the value or lack thereof
of treatments intended to prevent or delay the onset
of maladaptive correlates of aging in human beings.
In order to meet publishing commitments, the journal
needs to receive manuscripts by July 1, 2005. For
detailed author instructions, click here.
For further information on the Society for Applied
Research in Aging (SARA) please contact info@agesociety.org.
If you have any comments or questions contact: Dr.
Richard F. Walker, Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Interventions
in Aging, email: cia@dovepress.com.
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| IASWR's Working Conference on Evaluating
Social Work Services in Nursing Homes |
| In December 2004, an interdisciplinary
group gathered for a working conference, Evaluating
Social Work Services in Nursing Homes: Toward Quality
Psychosocial Care and Its Measurement. The conference
was organized by the Institute for the Advancement
of Social Work Research (IASWR) in collaboration
with the University of Maryland School of Social
Work and the Institute for Geriatric Social Work
(IGSW) at Boston University. It was funded in part
by a grant to IASWR from the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ). A summary can be found
in the Winter 2005 IGSW Issue Brief. The final report
with detailed recommended actions steps, a Report
to the Profession and Blueprint for Action, as well
as a background Briefing Book are available from
the IASWR website at www.iaswresearch.org. |
| Upcoming Free Broadcast in the "New
Look at the Old" Series |
| Want to learn about tools to screen
for cognitive impairment and about evidence-based
strategies for early intervention and prevention
of these problems in cognitively impaired older
adults hospitalized for acute illness or surgery?
Dr. Mary Naylor, and members of her research team
from the University of Pennsylvania, explain how
healthcare providers can better screen for cognitive
impairment, manage the acute care environment, and
ease transition to home or other care settings.
Follow this link to access the 60-minute webcast
anytime beginning Tuesday, 24 May 2005: www.NursingCenter.com/AJNolderadults.
This fourth in a series of 18 webcasts is a collaborative
effort between the American Journal of Nursing
(AJN), The Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
and PRIMEDIA Healthcare, sponsored in part through
a grant from Atlantic Philanthropies. The broadcast
series is designed to provide information and
demonstrate skills to improve the care and well-being
of older adults. If you have any questions about
the broadcast (or the associated print series),
please contact Katherine Kany, Project Manager,
at 703-729-6050 or katherinekany@adelphia.net.
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| 2.
Research Opportunities |
| Practicum Partnership Program Adoption
Initiative RFP Now Available |
The Request for Proposals for the
latest Hartford Foundation social work education
grants, seed grants to MSW social work programs
to spread adoption of the Practicum Partnership
Program social work rotational training model, is
available at http://socialwork.nyam.org/. There
will be three rounds of applications, but the first
deadline is June 1, 2005.
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| Research!America Calls for Nominations |
Research!America is pleased to announce
the Call for Nominations for the
2005 Eugene Garfield Economic Impact of Medical
and Health Research Award.
This award, which carries an honorarium of $5,000,
recognizes outstanding research on how medical or
health research impacts the economy. Past awardees
include, Sherry A. M. Glied, PhD, David Cutler,
PhD and David Meltzer, MD, PhD. The deadline for
nominations is July 29, 2005. For further details,
please visit Research!America's website at http://www.researchamerica.org. |
| Submissions Due for Meeting of
the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education |
| Outcomes of Gerontological and Geriatric
Education is the theme of this conference, scheduled
for Feb 9 - 12, 2006 in Indianapolis, IN. For more
info, visit www.aghe.org. The deadline for submissions
is June 1, 2005. |
| Call for Papers for 2006 National
Gerontological Social Work Conference |
| The conference is scheduled for February
16-19, 2006 in Chicago, IL. To access the NCGSW
call for papers, click here.
To submit abstracts online, click here.
The deadline is July 7, 2005. Remember, you do not
have to be a CSWE member to submit an abstract.
Beginning this year, however, accepted presenters
must pre-register for the conference by Nov. 30,
2005, in order to appear in the Final Program. Abstract
Acceptance/Rejection Notifications should be sent
by Sept. 9, 2005. Registration and Housing Opens
September 29, 2005. |
| BPD Call for Student Papers |
| Scheduled for Nov. 2-6, 2005 in Austin,
TX, students are invited to submit papers on topics
of interest to BSW social workers. These papers
should be completed as part of the coursework in
the BSW program and should cover knowledge, values,
and/or skills of baccalaureate social workers. Only
papers written while the student is in the undergraduate
program will be considered. Also, there should be
no identifying information in the proposal to assure
an anonymous review. Please submit the following
via email attachment to wbracy@sbcglobal.net by
May 25, 2005: Proposal Title; abstract overview
(not more than 50 words) to be included in the Final
Program; an essay, not to exceed 500 words, that
identifies the purpose and describes content of
the paper; your name, university or college, mailing
address, phone number, and email address; completion/Expected
Completion Date of Degree. A confirmation of submission
will be sent out within 24 hours of the receipt
of your proposal. If you do not receive a confirmation,
please contact Wanda Bracy at (708) 481-9835. You
should hear about the status of your paper by June
30, 2005. |
| Call for Papers |
| The Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life
and Palliative Care announces a Call for Papers
for a Special Issue highlighting the research of
the Hartford Geriatric Scholars. You are eligible
to submit a manuscript if you have received a grant
award from the John A. Hartford Foundation through
the Hartford Faculty Scholars Program in Geriatric
Social Work or through the Hartford Doctoral Fellows
Program in Social Work (1999-2004). Due date for
submission of manuscripts for this special issue
is July 1, 2005. For detailed information, click
here. |
| Nominations Sought for Robert Wood
Johnson Community Health Leadership Award |
| The Robert Wood Johnson Community
Health Leadership Program (CHLP) honors ten outstanding
individuals each year for their work in creating
or enhancing healthcare programs serving communities
whose needs have been ignored and unmet. Each leader
receives $120,000 to be used for personal and program
enhancement over a period of up to three years.
For more information, click here. |
| 3. News & Research |
| Preliminary Report of NASW's Study
of Licensed Social Workers Available |
| In order to better predict the adequacy
and sufficiency of the social work labor force to
meet the changing needs of society, the National
Association of Social Workers (NASW) conducted a
benchmark national survey of licensed social workers
in the fall of 2004. A preliminary report, which
presents early findings that illuminate a number
of issues related to social workers and their professional
practices, is now available. Click here
to view the report. |
| Social Work Congress Sets Future
Course |
| More than 400 social work leaders
came together in Washington, DC, March 16-18 for
Social Work Congress 2005 and adopted 12 "imperatives"
for the profession's future. To see the list of
imperatives, click here.
For more information, visit www.socialworkers.org. |
| Medicare Hires First Ombudsman |
| The Medicare program has hired its
first ombudsman to oversee the beneficiary concerns.
Dan Schreiner will focus on appeals, complaints,
grievances, and requests for assistance, CMS said
on March 22. "Dan Schreiner is uniquely qualified
to be the voice of the beneficiary inside Medicare,"
Dr. McClellan said. "Beneficiaries already
can reach Medicare in many ways, but Daniel Schreiner
will make sure the concerns of people with Medicare
are always heard." |
| New AHRQ Publication Focuses on
Women's Health Research Findings |
| Examples of AHRQ's current and completed
research projects concerning conditions especially
important to women are described here. |
| Boston Globe Article: Ageism Said
to Erode Care Given to Elders |
| Older patients often suffer needlessly
from cancer, depression, and heart disease because
society's age bias gets in the way of treatment,
according to a growing body of research. Patients
over 65 typically get less aggressive treatment
for cancer than younger patients, less preventive
care for high blood pressure and cholesterol, and
double the dose they need of some psychiatric medicines,
studies show. Read
article. |
| 4. Announcements |
| International Social Work Practice
Research Symposium |
To honor the late William J. Reid,
whose work shaped the agenda for research on social
work services for 35 years, and to further stimulate
high quality practice research in social work, the
University at Albany School of Social Welfare will
host an international practice research symposium
on June 1 - 2, 2005 in Albany, NY.
The symposium will feature state-of-the-art papers,
posters and summaries of the evidence for practice
effectiveness in four major tracks: child welfare,
mental health, aging and substance abuse. Plenary
sessions will encourage the development of new partnerships
and capacity building among key stakeholders and
will present a historic map of the practice research
movement in Social Work. Among the aging research
presenters will be Barbara Berkman, Kevin Mahoney
& Letha Chadiha.
Click here
for registration and additional informational materials.
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| Older Americans' Mental Health
Week is May 22-28 |
| The Older Women's League (OWL), the
voice of midlife and older women, has announced
that Older Americans' Mental Heath Week will be
observed May 22-28, 2005. Celebrate the week as
part of Older Americans Month. To support this year's
observance, OWL has developed the 2005 Older Americans'
Mental Health Week toolkit, containing many items
including suggested sample activities and informative
materials to guide providing assistance to older
adults suffering from mental health disorders. For
more information and to access items from the toolkit,
visit OWL's website at www.owl-national.org/mentalhealthweek.
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| Congratulations to Cynthia Stuen,
this year's ASA Leadership Award Recipient |
| Cynthia Stuen, chair of NASW's Aging
Section and senior vice president for education
at the American Society of Aging (ASA), was the
recipient of this year's ASA Leadership Award. Stuen,
director of the Center for Education at Lighthouse
International, was honored in March at the 2005
Joint Conference of the ASA and the National Council
on Aging for her "contributions to the growth
and development of ASA and the field of again."
Stuen, former treasurer for The Gerontological Society
of America, is known for her work and research on
a wide range of age-related issues, including sensory
loss, access to environments for older adults with
impaired vision, and the various ways families and
friends can contribute to program planning and service
delivery. |
| Five Hartford Doctoral Fellows
Receive PhDs |
| Congratulations to Cohort III Fellows,
Dr. Abigail Lawrence-Jacobson from the University
of Michigan, Dr. Edna Naito-Chan from UCLA, and
Dr. Kelsey V. Simons from the University of Maryland-Baltimore;
and to Cohort IV Fellows, Dr. Kelley Macmillan from
the University of Kansas and Dr. Charles A. Smith
from the University of Maryland-Baltimore! |
| Congratulations to Cohort II Hartford
Faculty Scholar, Dr. Terry Lum |
| We wish to congratulate Dr. Terry
Lum, who has been awarded tenure at the University
of Minnesota. For those who wish to contact Terry
his e-mail is TLUM@che.umn.edu. |
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