Clinical Service Challenge Grant: Redesigning Long-Term Care Services for Urban Vulnerable Elders to

Grant Summary

Five academic health centers have been awarded two-year challenge grants to test innovations in geriatric health care. The innovations, based at sites that participate in the Foundation's Centers of Excellence for Geriatric Medicine Training program, will also provide enhanced venues for teaching geriatrics to medical students and residents. Selected through a competitive process, these five CoEs will use the clinical models to demonstrate enhanced teaching and training, and increase interest in geriatrics. They will also assess their didactic effectiveness, as well as the model's potential for sustainability and dissemination. The Hartford Foundation's Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine program was founded in 1988 to meet the need for physician-faculty trained to prepare physicians in the health care needs of older adults. In 2004, three additional centers in geriatric medicine and two new centers in geriatric psychiatry were funded.