Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence Renewal University of Iowa

Grant Summary

The John A. Hartford Foundation renewed its five centers of geriatric nursing excellence to continue their work in strengthening nursing for the care of older adults. The grants will provide support for these diverse centers to build upon and expand their multi-faceted aging programs in the areas of education, research, practice, recruitment, policy, and dissemination. These programs ultimately impact students, faculty, consumers, providers, and practicing nurses. The five centers of geriatric nursing excellence are part of the Foundation's Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Initiative (www.geriatricnursing.org). This initiative was created in 2000 in response to the critical shortage of nursing faculty with the geriatric skills needed to educate future generations of nurses and the paucity of geriatric nursing curricula and research.