2009 Syracuse Seminar on Aging
Our Grandparents, Our Parents, Our Future Selves: Optimizing Function in Old Age
Thomas Gill, MD, Yale University
Thursday, September 10, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, Global Collaboratory, Maxwell School
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
Dr. Gill is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Investigative Medicine and the Humana Foundation Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Yale University. He received his research training in clinical epidemiology as a Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Clinical Scholar at Yale, and he joined the faculty in 1994 after completing an additional year as a geriatrics fellow. Dr. Gill is also Director of the Center on Disability and Disabling Disorders and Co-Director of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale.
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. Three of the past lectures have been published online as a CPR Policy Brief.
Previous Seminars on Aging:
- Who Will Take Care of Tomorrow's Elderly? Recommendations from the Institute of Medicine. John Rowe. Dr. Rowe chaired 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.
- Do We Want to Measure the Quality of Medical Care for Older People? The ACOVE Approach by Neil Wenger, Policy Brief No. 38/2008.
- 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.
If you need more information, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive announcements of future Syracuse Seminars on Aging, please contact Martha W. Bonney, (315) 443-2703, mwbonney@maxwell.syr.edu
