Aging Initiative

Related Links

• Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
  The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) is a nonprofit national association representing over 3,000 individual members as well as graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in this country.
  
  
• CSWE Gero-Ed Center
  The Council on Social Work Education Gero-Ed Center National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education, funded for three years by the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City, is part of an exciting initiative to “gerontologize” accredited social work programs throughout the United States. Website contains teaching resources, web links, competency information, and information about other Hartford Initiatives.
  
  
• Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, Older Americans 2000: Key Indicators of Well-Being
  This publication provides 31 key indicators about older Americans, categorized into five broad groups: population, economics, health status, health risks and behaviors, and health care.
  
  
• Generations United (GU) National Center on Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children
  Generations United (GU) National Center on Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children seeks to improve the quality of life of these caregivers and the children they are raising. Using an intergenerational framework that considers the needs of each generation in these families, we are educating policy makers at the national, state and local levels, raising awareness among professionals in the public and private sectors, and providing education and training to service practitioners.
  
  Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) Program
  Studies show that complex patients manage better when every health professional involved in their care work together as a team to develop a smart plan of care. The John A. Hartford Foundation's GITT program helps health educational institutions establish a resource center to facilitate interdisciplinary team work.
  
  
• Geriatric Social Work Practicum Partnership Program (PPP)
  This John A. Hartford program was created because high quality practicums connect communities and practitioners with schools of social work and help schools respond to evolving local needs. PPP is a resource for students and field instructors for creating aging enhanced social work field education experiences.
  
  
• GERONET, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  UCLA Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (MPGMG) is comprised of the following core sites: UCLA Medical Center and Center for Health Sciences, the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System-West Los Angeles and Sepulveda Centers, and the Jewish Homes for the Aging-Borun Center for Gerontological Research.
  
  
• Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
  GSA provides researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers with opportunities to understand, advance, integrate, and use basic and applied research on aging to improve the quality of life as one ages.
  
  
• Geriatric Social Work Education Consortium (GSWEC)
  The Southern California Geriatric Social Work Education Consortium (GSWEC) is the nation’s first major regional consortium to create a replicable and sustainable model for integrated field and academic graduate geriatric social work education.
  
  
• Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
  The GRECCs are "centers of excellence" that are designed to improve health care and quality of life to older veterans through the advancement and integration of research, education and clinical achievements in geriatrics and gerontology into the total VA health care system and broader communities.
  
  
• Hartford Geriatric Social Work Initiative
  The John A. Hartford Foundation's initiative to prepare needed, aging-savvy social workers. Includes funding opportunities for students (Doctoral Fellows Program) and faculty (Faculty Scholars Program) as well as career information.
  
  
• Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR)
  A freestanding, not-for-profit organization, IASWR serves the research needs of the entire social work profession. IASWR promotes social work research conducted under the auspices of other academic and professional organizations.
  
  
• Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW)
  The Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW) is dedicated to advancing social work practice with older adults and their families.