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Two new initiatives promote elder healthcare
Healthcare Strategist Trend Watch, July 7, 2006
Two new initiatives have been designed to improve the health and quality of life of older Americans. One is a $2 million grant awarded to Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center, both in New York City, to develop a program that trains doctors in caring for the elderly. The other, a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and New York City-based The Atlantic Philanthropies, will support efforts to deliver healthcare programs to the elderly at the community level.
The grant awarded to Yeshiva and Montefiore will support the GeriEd Program, which contains both educational and clinical components and targets physicians who provide acute or chronic primary care for the elderly, according to a release from the Las Vegas-based philanthropic organization Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, which provided the grant.
The $15 million collaboration is designed to provide interventions to help older people better their health status by improving nutrition and diet, exercising more, and avoiding injuries. The efforts will take place over three years in up to 12 states, and will be administered through non-profit organizations such as senior centers, senior housing projects, and faith-based organizations, according to an HHS release.
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