2008 Syracuse Seminar on Aging
John Rowe, MD
John Rowe, MD, delivered the fourth Seminar on Aging on Thursday, April 17, 2008, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm in the Global Collaboratory, 060 Eggers Hall. His topic was Who Will Take Care of Tomorrow's Elderly? Recommendations from the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Rowe leads the MacArthur Foundation's Initiative on an Aging Society and chairs the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans, which issued its final report on April 14, 2008. The report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce, is available on the National Academies Press website.
The Syracuse Seminar on Aging is co-sponsored by the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center of Upstate New York, the Center for Policy Research, and the Syracuse University Gerontology Center. Each of the past lectures has been published online as a CPR Policy Brief.
Previous Seminars on Aging:
- Do We Want to Measure the Quality of Medical Care for Older People? If So, Why Aren't We?, by Neil Wenger, MD, MPH, will be published as Policy Brief No. 38/2008, in spring 2008.
- Is It Time to Redesign Hospice? End-of-Life Care at the User Interface, by David J. Casarett, Policy Brief No. 35/2007.
- Changing Economic Incentives of Long-Term Care by R. Tamara Konetzka, Policy Brief No. 32/2006.
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