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Ripples
The e-Newsletter of the Geriatric Social Work Initiative
(GSWI)
Volume 4, Issue 2
March 24, 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 Rebecca Finer at rfiner@geron.org.
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Funding Opportunities
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| Research Grants from the National
Health and Medical Research Council |
| DEADLINE for applications is 11 May
2006. DEMENTIA RESEARCH GRANTS (Round 1) Call for
Expressions of Interest. The implementation of the
Dementia Research Grants Program is a joint project
between the Ageing and Aged Care Division of the
Department of Health and Ageing and the National
Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). The
program is part of the Australian Government's Helping
Australians with dementia and their carers- making
dementia a National Health Priority initiative.
This program aims to improve the quality of life
for people with dementia and their carers through
funding collaborative, multidisciplinary and innovative
research into dementia and dementia care. Expressions
of Interest are particularly encouraged from experienced
researchers willing to collaborate with other researchers,
service providers and practitioners to ensure translation
of research outcomes into policy and practice. Total
funding of up to $10 million will be available in
Round 1 for 2 and 3 year research proposals. Further
information and Expressions of Interest forms are
available from the NHMRC Internet site at http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/funding/types/granttype/strategic/dementia.htm. |
| 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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| 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.
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| NIH/NIA: Small Business Innovation
Research Program Initiative
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| 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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| 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.
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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 |
| Gero-Ed Center Celebrates a Successful
Forum and Prepares for CDIs |
| The theme of the Year 2 Curriculum
Development Institutes (CDI), One Year Later: The
Reality vs. the Ideal - Next Steps? recognizes that
when many faculty attempt to implement curricular
change, it is often more difficult and slower than
expected. This year, faculty participants will report
on their planning year successes, challenges, and
lessons learned and determine next steps. Region-specific
presentations by experts in the field on such topics
as competencies, diversity, sustainability, and
mental health are new this year. The CDIs begin
March 30 in Salt Lake City.
The CSWE Gero-Ed Center would like to thank everyone
who helped make the recent Gero-Ed Forum, February
16-19, such a success. The Forum included over
235 presenters from 99 social work education programs,
7 community organizations and representing 4 countries.
Conference highlights include our well-attended
Kick-Off, which featured NASW Executive Director
Elizabeth Clark's keynote address and intergenerational
dance troupe Perceptual Motion, Inc.; the First
Annual Film Festival; a special screening of Almost
Home, which was later featured on PBS; the Gero-Ed
Center/AGE-SW roundtables and reception; and the
awarding of the first two Anita Rosen Gerontology
Awards for Outstanding Student Poster. Please
visit our Web site for more information on these
events and materials from the 2006 Gero-Ed Forum:
www.Gero-EdCenter.org.
Also at the Gero-Ed Forum, Drs. Judith Gonyea
and Andrew Scharlach led the Gero-Ed Institute
"Economic and Health Disparities Across the
Life Course: Implications for Aging, Policies
and Programs." For resources from this and
past Gero-Ed Institutes, visit our Web site: www.Gero-EdCenter.org.
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| 65+ in the United States |
| The face of aging in the United States
is changing dramatically -- and rapidly, according
to a new U.S. Census Bureau report, commissioned
by the National Institute on Aging. Today's older
Americans are very different from their predecessors,
living longer, having lower rates of disability,
achieving higher levels of education and less often
living in poverty. The report, "65+ in the
United States: 2005" provides a picture of
the health and socioeconomic status of the aging
population at a critical time in the maturing of
the United States. It highlights striking shifts
in aging on a population scale and also describes
changes at the local and even family level, examining,
for example, important changes in family structure
as a result of divorce. The 243-page compendium
examines in detail five key areas: growth of the
older population (changes in age and racial/ethnic
composition), longevity and health (life expectancy
and causes of death), economic characteristics (income
and household wealth), geographic distribution (by
population and race) and social and other characteristics
(marital status, living arrangements and voting
patterns). To view an appendix of selected highlights
from "65+ in the United States: 2005 please
see http://www.nia.nih.gov/NewsAndEvents/PressReleases/ |
| The National Association of Social
Workers (NASW) releases results of a national study
of licensed social workers |
| The findings warn of an impending
shortage of social workers that threaten future
services for all Americans, especially the most
vulnerable among us, children and older adults.
Among the key findings:
· The number of new social workers providing
services to older adults is decreasing, despite
projected increases in the number of older adults
who will need social work services.
- The supply of licensed social workers is insufficient
to meet the needs of organizations serving children
and families.
- Workload expansion plus fewer resources impedes
social worker retention.
- Agencies struggle to fill social work vacancies.
For complete information about NASW's Center
for Workforce Studies, which issued the study,
and the national survey of licensed social workers
in the United States, please visit http://workforce.socialworkers.org.
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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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| Building Academic Palliative Care:
Palliative Care Leadership Center (PCLC) Training |
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Sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative
Care (CAPC)
The Palliative Care Leadership Centers (PCLC)
are pleased to announce a new training opportunity
to help academic medical centers secure their
status as national leaders in the emerging field
of palliative care.
Based on the PCLC curriculum, the course has two
key components:
Training Program. Building Academic Palliative
Care is specifically designed for academic medical
centers to provide both faculty and key hospital
staff with the knowledge and tools needed to:
" Provide a palliative care program that
brings crucial clinical experience to students
and residents;
" Promote faculty development in palliative
care;
" Improve the integration of the academic
mission within the teaching hospital;
" Develop and implement an action plan for
clinical and academic program development to support
student and resident education.
Mentoring. PCLC faculty will continue to assist
participants for a full year after the training
through continued guidance and distance mentoring.
Approved for 13 Hours, Category 1, Physician CME
Credit.
Register now at www.capc.org/pclc. Sessions fill
months in advance. Space is available on a first-come,
first-served basis only.
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| Just Released - Understanding Aging:
The Social Worker's Role Earn 2.0 FREE CEUs.
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| The newest release in NASW's "Understanding
Series," the free online course covers the
basics of gerontological social work and is a joint
project of NASW and The New York Academy of Medicine
Social Work Leadership Institute. Take the course
today. [click here] |
| Oncology Nursing and the Treatment
of Pain |
April 11, 2006
1:30 - 2:45 PM EST
10:30 - 11:45 AM PST
Sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care
(CAPC)
Hear from featured speaker Patrick Coyne, who
will discuss how you can incorporate appropriate
pain relief techniques into your care of cancer
patients. Through this audio conference you will
learn to:
" Identify barriers to adequate pain relief
at the end-of-life
" List components of a thorough pain assessment
" Describe pharmacological and non-pharmacological
therapies used to relieve pain
A Q&A period will follow the panel discussion.
The cost for this call is: $45 PER LINE. Space
is limited and available on a first-come, first-served
basis.
To register and more information on the panel,
go to http://www.capc.org/support-from-capc/audio-conf/2006-04-11.
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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 Rebecca Finer at rfiner@geron.org.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 |
| AARP GLOBAL AGING PROGRAM: "Portfolio
on Health and Aging." |
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This is a collection of recently released international
resources on health and aging topics including
prescription drug importation, health IT, and
health care quality and affordability. http://www.aarp.org/research/international/portfolio/health.html
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| Memory and Aging Center, University
of California, San Francisco: 5th International
Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias |
a conference to be held in San Francisco,
Sep. 6-8, 2006. For more information see
http://www.ucsfcme.com/2006/MNR07002.pdf
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| Reflecting on 100 Years of Alzheimer's:
The Global Impact on Quality of Lives |
| University Center on Aging and Health,
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland Ohio):
a conference to be held Nov. 6-7, 2006, in Cleveland.
For more information see: http://fpb.case.edu/CFA/announce.shtm
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| 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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| Announcements |
| Free Professional Resources: Information
for PracticeInformation 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/. |
| 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. |
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Aging Times: New Quarterly e-Newsletter from
the CSWE Gero-Ed Center
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| To view 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/. |
| Call for Abstracts |
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The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
(AGHE) invites you to submit an abstract for program
consideration at our 33rd Annual Meeting and Educational
Leadership Conference. The meeting will be held
in Portland, Oregon, March 1-4 2007. The theme
is 'Mentorship?the Dyad, Triad, and Beyond. The
deadline for abstract submission is June 1, 2007.
You may click on the call for sessions box at
www.aghe.org
The American Society on Aging and the National
Council on the Aging's Joint Conference is accepting
abstracts for their 2007 meeting in Chicago, Ill.
The deadline for the abstracts is June 3, 2007.
Check http://www.agingconference.org/agingconference/jc06/index.cfm
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| Congratulations to Cohort III Hartford
Scholar, Amy Ai |
| We are pleased to announce that Governor
Gregoire of Washington State has appointed Dr. Amy
Ai to the State Council on Aging. |
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