More than 80 people from hospitals, community-based organizations, public agencies, and academic settings, came together to learn more about local initiatives focused on dementia care at the First Annual Silberman Aging Conference entitled Innovations in Dementia Care: A Celebration of Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Diverse Urban Settings, held on Friday, May 8, 2015. Check…
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Featured in The New York Times: “Admitted to Your Bedroom: Some Hospitals Try Treating Patients at Home”
“Admitted to Your Bedroom: Some Hospitals Try Treating Patients at Home” By Daniela J. Lamas, M.D. Under pressure to reduce costs and improve quality, a handful of health care systems are hospitalizing patients in their homes. Read more e…
Inaugural Conference on Innovations in Dementia Care: A Celebration of Practice Research and Advocacy in Diverse Urban Setting
The Center of Excellence is launching a community-based conference showcasing innovative local programs in Dementia Care. If you would like to feature your program, please submit a proposal to present at this conference. Proposals are due by midnight March 24th, 2015. Click here to learn more. For a copy of the application cover sheet, please click here. Please…
Funding Awarded by Center to Community-Based Pilot Research Projects
The Hartford Silberman Center of Excellence in Aging & Diversity is pleased to announce the first recipients of awards from our Research Pilot Grants program, developed with support from the John A Hartford Foundation to promote community-based research that advances psychosocial knowledge in aging and enhances direct and indirect practice with older adults and their…
EWA Hosts Congressional Briefing on Geriatrics & Gerontology Education and Interdisciplinary Team Care
East Harlem: An Age-Friendly Community
New York City was named by the World Health Organization to be one of the first thirty five Age-friendly cities worldwide to address population aging and urbanization. Age-friendly cities were identified and created as an initiative to improve the growing needs of the aging population. Through strategic implementation of improved accessibility to services, the goal of this age-friendly…
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Traumatology – Trauma, Aging, and Well-Being: Invoking Human Rights, Intergenerational Family Justice, Peace, and Freedom Deadline: August 31, 2014 In response to a large gap in the literature, Traumatology is pleased to announce a call for papers with a forensic and interdisciplinary focus, on the topics of trauma, aging, and well-being, particularly life course and cumulative…