The Future of Aging

Posted by Rachael Watman on February 24, 2009

It was with great excitement that I went back to my alma mater, Columbia University School of Social Work, eight years after I graduated with my MSW to speak to their newly formed Student Aging Caucus. My presentation, The Future of Social Work and Aging, traced my academic and professional…

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A System Failure

Posted by Amy Berman on February 20, 2009

Recently, I had the opportunity to make a site visit to Baylor College of Medicine. The director of the Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine, George Taffet, MD, related a story that starkly underscores the need for policies that support greater awareness of geriatric issues in the training of…

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