(El Barrio SHARE – Supporting Natural Helpers with ADRD Resources and Education) Silberman Aging is excited to announce that the El Barrio SHARE project has received a Manhattan Community Award Program (MCAP) grant from Borough President’s Gale Brewer’s office. The Co-Principal Investigators for El Barrio SHARE are Dr. Caroline Rosenthal Gelman and Dr. Nancy Giunta,…
Faculty and students from Silberman Aging hosted a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) this past January. The symposium, Community-Engaged Research to Advance Social and Health Equity Among Diverse Older Adults, featured the community-based research and engagement conducted by Silberman Aging over the past six years. The…
“My view is that what we are breaking ground on is community,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said. “And a whole new different way of thinking about how do you create space. … We aren’t divided so much as we are disconnected. If we could create a place that people from different walks of lives can come…