Developing Interdisciplinary Research Centers for Improving Geriatric Health Care Services: Phase II

Grant Summary

Interdisciplinary research is vital to improving the care of older people, whose complex needs require the integration of social, psychological, and biological elements. To continue this work, the Foundation renewed a grant to RAND Pittsburgh, a branch of the internationally respected research firm, to fund a second national competition to create interdisciplinary research centers in geriatrics. These centers will bring together faculty members from medicine, nursing, social work and related disciplines to pursue new directions in health services and clinical research for older people. This renewal will provide funds for five new centers. Under a previous grant to RAND-Pittsburgh, five centers were funded: Duke University, Boston University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, San Francisco.