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Ripples
The e-Newsletter of the Geriatric Social Work Initiative
(GSWI)
Volume 4, Issue 1
January 30, 2006
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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Funding Opportunities
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| Training for a New Interdisciplinary
Workforce, RFA RM 06-006 |
| This RFA is an initiative of the
NIH Roadmap (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/), a series
of activities whose goal, in keeping with the NIH
mission of uncovering new knowledge about the prevention,
detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and
disability, is to accelerate both the pace of discovery
in these key areas and the translation of therapies
from bench to bedside. For more information, click
here. |
| Rose Kleiner Doctoral Fellowship
in Aging |
| The University of California,
Berkeley School of Social Welfare has announced
the Rose Kleiner Doctoral Fellowship in Aging. The
Fellow will receive full support (tuition, fees
and living expenses) for a minimum of four years
to pursue doctoral studies in gerontology. For more
information, contact Admissions at (510) 642-9042.
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| NIH/NIA: Small Business Innovation
Research Program Initiative |
| NIA seeks small business applications
in specific areas to enhance the coordination and
optimization of the SBIR grant program across NIA's
four programs of research: Behavioral-Social Research,
Biology of Aging, Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology,
and Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging. For
more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-049.html.
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| Boston College Center for Retirement
Research Grants |
- Sandell Grants for Junior Scholars: This program
promotes research on retirement issues by junior
scholars in a wide variety of academic disciplines.
Six grants of $30,000 will be awarded. The deadline
for proposal submission is 2/28/06. Awards will
be announced on 4/15/06. For more information:
http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/sandellguidelines.shtml.
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- Dissertation Fellowships: This program promotes
the next generation of retirement research scholars.
Six fellowships of $20,000 will be awarded.
Fellowships for successful applicants are renewable
for a second year based on adequate progress.
Deadline for proposal submission is 1/31/06.
Awards will be announced on 3/15/06. For more
information, go to: http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/dissertation.shtml.
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| NIH/NIA: Aging Research Dissertation
Awards to Increase Diversity Grant |
| The National Institute on Aging (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 (including
Puerto Rico and other US territories or possessions).
Contingent upon the availability of funds and the
submission of a sufficient number of meritorious
applications, the NIA expects to award $250,000
to $300,000 annually beginning in fiscal year 2007
to support 6 to 8 dissertation awards. Support is
provided for up to two years. Total allowable costs
per year are the current fiscal year National Research
Service Award (NRSA) pre-doctoral stipend level
(http://grants.nih.gov/training/nrsa.htm#policy)
and up to $15,000 for additional expenses. No funds
may be used to pay tuition or fees associated with
completion of doctoral studies. For more information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-117.html
PAR-06-117. |
| Research & News |
| Depression & Dispiritedness
in Later Life |
| Follow this link to access the article
from the American Journal of Nursing, December 2005
Issue: http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/static.asp?pageid=527873. |
| 2005 White House Conference on
Aging Top 10 Resolutions |
| Delegates from the 2005 White House
Conference on Aging (WHCoA) shared recommendations
to be sent to the President and Congress on the
pressing aging issues of today and the future. Delegates
in attendance selected the top 50 resolutions to
present and participated in working groups to develop
strategies for implementing the resolutions. The
top 10 resolutions as voted by the delegates are:
--Reauthorize the Older Americans Act Within
the First Six Months Following the 2005 White
House Conference on Aging
--Develop a Coordinated, Comprehensive Long-Term
Care Strategy by Supporting Public and Private
Sector Initiatives that Address Financing, Choice,
Quality, Service Delivery, and the Paid and Unpaid
Workforce
--Ensure that Older Americans Have Transportation
Options to Retain Their Mobility and Independence
--Strengthen and Improve the Medicaid Program
for Seniors
--Strengthen and Improve the Medicare Program
--Support Geriatric Education and Training for
All Healthcare Professionals, Paraprofessionals,
Health Profession Students, and Direct Care Workers
--Promote Innovative Models of Non-Institutional
Long-Term Care
--Improve Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment
of Mental Illness and Depression Among Older Americans
--Attain Adequate Numbers of Healthcare Personnel
in All Professions Who are Skilled, Culturally
Competent, and Specialized Geriatrics
--Improve State and Local Based Integrated Delivery
Systems to Meet 21 Century Needs of Seniors
By statute, the final report from the conference
will be presented to the President and Congress
by June 2006. For a full listing of the 50 resolutions,
visit www.whcoa.gov.
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| Resources |
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New Publication by Dr. Barbara Berkman: The
Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging
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| The Handbook of Social Work in Health
and Aging is a valuable resource authored by the
leaders in social work education, policy and practice
in health care and aging. It demonstrates how social
work with aging is central to gerontological health
care within the US and across the world. The handbook
provides guidelines for effectively assessing and
treating older adults and supporting their families.
It is a major accomplishment in the field of gerontological
social work. For more information or to order your
copy, click
here. |
| FREE Online Course on Aging Available
to Students |
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The National Association of Social Workers and
the Social Work Leadership Institute at the New
York Academy of Medicine are pleased to present
a FREE online course on Aging: Understanding Aging:
The Social Worker's Role (http://www.naswwebed.org/).
Released December 2005 (www.socialworkers.org/pressroom/2005/121505.asp),
the free course will assist your students in understanding
the basics of aging and experiences relevant to
older adults.
Both NASW and NYAM-SWLI encourage you to include
the 2-hour course in your curriculum. The training
can be used as a course requirement or as extra
credit. (Students who pass an examination will
receive a certificate.)
Understanding Aging is available 24 hours a day,
7 days a week, and can be completed over several
online sessions. Add the course to your curriculum.
Refer students to www.NASWWebEd.org to take the
course today.
Although encouraged, membership in NASW is not
required to take the course. The course is funded
by an unrestricted educational grant from the
Hartford Foundation and the Social Work Leadership
Institute at the New York Academy of Medicine.
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| Experience Exciting Careers
in Social Work and Aging: Request a FREE Copy
of the Magazine Today |
| Click
here to access the first edition of "Experience
Exciting Careers in Social Work and Aging",
a magazine about careers in gerontological social
work created by the Hartford Geriatric Social Work
Initiative. You are encouraged to distribute the
magazine around your school. Bulk copies are available
- contact Carrie Smith at csmith@geron.org. |
| Get an Early Start: Apply to the
Hartford Predissertation Award Program |
| Twenty students to be selected for
the Hartford Doctoral Fellows Predissertation Award
Program. Deadline for applications is May 1, 2006.
Learn
more. |
| APA Advanced Training Institutes
(ATIs) |
| The APA Science Directorate will
sponsor five ATIs in the summer of 2006. These week-long
programs expose new and established faculty, researchers,
and advanced graduate students to state of the art
psychological research methods and emerging technologies.
More information about these exciting programs can
be found at http://www.apa.org/science/ati.html.
For all courses, advanced graduate students, post-docs,
and new and established faculty are invited to apply.
Applications are available at http://www.apa.org/science/ati.html
and must be submitted electronically through each
program's website. For more information, contact
APA's Science Directorate at ati@apa.org or (202)
336-6000. |
| Third Annual Research Training
in Aging and Social Work |
| Nationally recognized experts in
research methodology will lead a training institute
specifically designed for social work faculty who
received their doctoral degree at least 3 years
ago in any area of social work. The institute, funded
by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), aims to
strengthen participants' knowledge and skills essential
for developing an active research agenda and integrating
scholarship with teaching. It is co-directed by
Barbara Berkman of Columbia University and Chandra
Mehrotra of The College of St. Scholastica. It will
be held at The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth,
Minnesota overlooking beautiful Lake Superior July
16-24, 2006. Please visit the program Web site:
www.css.edu/programs/iasw/ for additional information.
For more details and application materials, please
contact Chandra M. Mehrotra, Co-Director, Research
Training Program, The College of St. Scholastica,
1200 Kenwood Avenue, Duluth, MN 55811. E-mail: cmehrotr@css.edu.
Application Deadline: 3/15/06. |
| Second Annual Applied Research
Training Series |
| George Mason University's Center for
Social Science Research announces its second annual
Applied Research Training Series. This Spring/Summer
they will hold introductory workshops on survey
research, content analysis, program evaluation,
writing funding proposals, in-depth interviewing,
focus groups, and finding and using existing data.
For more information: http://cssr.gmu.edu/series/series.html. |
| 2006 Summer Research Institute
in Suicide Prevention |
| This announces the third annual session
of research training program, the Summer Research
Institute in Suicide Prevention (SRI/SP), funded
by the National Institute of Mental Health and organized
by the University of Rochester Center for the Study
and Prevention of Suicide (CSPS). The SRI/SP will
be held from June 11-17, 2006 in Rochester, New
York. It provides the opportunity to train a multidisciplinary
array of young investigators and develop a cadre
of researchers with the knowledge and skills required
to address the public health challenges of suicide
and other major mental health problems. For more
information, please contact Anthony Beckman at anthony_beckman@urmc.rochester.edu
and visit www.Rochesterpreventsuicide.org. |
| International Conference on "Aging
and Social Change In Africa" |
| The conference is being held from
June 15-17, 2006 at Georgia State University, Atlanta.
More information: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwger/news/Conference.html.
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| Free Professional Resources: Information
for Practice |
| Information for Practice (IP) seeks
to help social care/social service/social welfare/social
work professionals throughout the world conveniently
maintain an awareness of news regarding the profession
and emerging scholarship. The specific goals of
IP are to identify and deliver high quality information
in each category, deliver an interesting mix of
information, and create a more global sense of the
profession for users from all locales. See http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/ip/.
For more conference information and a full list
of special sessions, please visit our Web site
www.Gero-EdCenter.org or the CSWE APM Web site
at www.cswe.org/apm.
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| Public Health Social Work in the
21st Century |
| This National Conference is to be
held at Boston University on May 19, 2006. You are
invited to register for this one-day conference
where major stakeholders will come together to dialogue
and collaborate on enhancing the visibility, revitalization,
and importance of public health social work. This
conference is being offered with no registration
fee. Abstract submissions for oral presentations
that share knowledge, experience, and ideas about
the vision for and current state of the field of
public health social work are now being accepted.
The deadline for abstract submission is January
31, 2006. Conference registration and abstract guidelines
can be found at: http://www.bu.edu/ssw/mswmph. |
| Aging Times: New Quarterly
e-Newsletter from the CSWE Gero-Ed Center |
| To view the first issue of Aging Times,
click here: http://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=31209960&message_id=150254&user_id=CSWE. |
| RAND Summer Institute (RSI) |
| RAND is pleased to announce the 13th
annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI). RSI consists
of two annual conferences that address critical
issues facing our aging population. The MiniMedical
School for Social Scientists will be held on July
12-13, and the Demography, Economics, and Epidemiology
of Aging conference on July 14-15, 2006. Both conferences
will convene at the RAND Corporation headquarters
in Santa Monica, California. Fill in the application
now. (Qualified applicants must hold a Ph.D. or
have completed two years of a Ph.D. program and
be actively working on a dissertation. Only applicants
working in the field of aging - or actively considering
this research field - will be considered) - deadline
is March 15, 2006. The conferences are sponsored
by the National Institute on Aging and the NIH-wide
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.
For more information: http://www.rand.org/labor/aging/rsi/. |
| Announcements |
| PBS Independent Lens Series, Almost
Home: New Air Date |
| The new air date and time for "Almost
Home" is Feb. 21st at 10pm ET. For more information
about the film, look here: http://www.almosthomedoc.org/. |
| Can't-Miss Events at the 2006 Gero-Ed
Forum |
| The Gero-Ed Forum/APM Online Personal
Scheduler is now online (www.cswe.org/apm). Use
this tool to search through all Gero-Ed Forum sessions
and create your own personal schedule. Be certain
to look for the following special events on the
scheduler and at the 4th Annual Gero-Ed Forum in
Chicago, February 16-19, 2006.
Join us on Friday, February 17 at noon for our
Kick-Off with keynote speaker Elizabeth J. Clark,
NASW Executive Director, and entertainment by
Perceptual Motion, Inc., Choreography by Lin Shook.
We are also pleased to announce a special screening
and panel discussion on Saturday, February 18
from 7:30 - 9:30 pm of the new documentary Almost
Home, which will air in late-February on PBS.
In addition to this special screening, don't miss
our first annual Gero-Ed Forum Film Festival where
you can view and order educational gero-related
films. The Film Festival runs throughout the conference;
please see our special tote bag insert for more
information. Also, look for our invited special
sessions featuring national aging experts and
be sure to join us Friday night for the annual
Gero-Ed Center/AGE-SW roundtable reception.
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| News from the Social Work Leadership
Institute |
| Thanks to the many schools across
the country who submitted applications to become
a PPP site by January 15th! Notifications of Cycle
2 awardees will be made after March 15, 2006. Specific
dates to apply for Cycle 3 are coming soon! For
more information on how to apply to become a PPP,
please see our website, at www.socialworkleadership.org
or feel free to contact Sarah Sisco, Program Officer,
(ssisco@nyam.org) or Alissa Yarkony, Associate Program
Officer, (ayarkony@nyam.org), both at the Social
Work Leadership Institute at the New York Academy
of Medicine. |
| 2006 AGHE Reflections Calendars
Now Available |
| Mark your year with stirring and
inspiring images of older adults caught in the act
of living! The 2006 Reflections Calendar is a continuing
reminder of the joys and challenges of growing old,
and of the importance of the work done by professionals
in the fields of gerontology and geriatrics. All
photos were submitted by members of AGHE and/or
members of GSA. This year's calendar is once again
in the format of an 8½" x 11" wall-mountable
calendar, providing you with enough room to jot
down important reminders. In addition, key dates
for AGHE and GSA are marked on the inside cover
as well as throughout the year. These inspiring
and functional calendars are being sold for only
$10 each, plus $3.85 shipping/handling. For orders
of multiple calendars, all additional calendars
will be shipped free of charge. Calendars can be
purchased directly on our website, or ordered by
fax/mail using a form downloadable from www.aghe.org. |
| Congratulations to Cohort VI Hartford
Scholar, Sandra Owens-Kane |
| We are pleased to announce that Sandra
Owens-Kane received promotion to Associate Professor
and tenure at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. |
| Cohort III Hartford Scholar Selected
for Fulbright Senior Scholar Award |
| Amy Ai has been selected for a Fulbright
Senior Scholar award. The award is given "to
scholars and professionals worldwide who are leaders
in the educational, political, economic, social
and cultural lives of their countries." Such
Scholars serve as cultural ambassadors worldwide.
The award will permit Amy to visit and collaborate
in the area of spirituality and health at two universities
in Germany. |
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