Webinar: Who Cares for Older Adults? Workforce Implications of an Aging Population, May 31, 2pm
FOR FUNDERS: The next Conversations with Grantmakers in Aging webinar, "Who Cares for Older Adults? Workforce Implications of an Aging Population" will be held on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 2:00 Eastern (11:00 Pacific). The program will document the workforce crisis and describe hopeful public-private-academic approaches that are helping health care providers get ready to care for an increasingly older and increasingly challenging group of patients. Speakers include Dr. Richard Besdine of the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. This month's Conversations with GIA webinar is being co-sponsored by the John A. Hartford Foundation and the American Federation for Aging Research.
FOR FUNDERS: The next Conversations with Grantmakers in Aging webinar — Who Cares for Older Adults? Workforce Implications of an Aging Population — will be held on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 2:00 Eastern (11:00 Pacific).
Recent debates in the media and policy circles about the future of health care have centered on the rising costs of care for an older patient population. Missing from the discussion is the capacity of our nation’s doctors, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, and other health care professionals. With a lack of geriatric specialists available and precious little “gero” content in traditional curricula, this workforce is ill-prepared for the skyrocketing number of older patients with high rates of chronic conditions, multiple medications, and complex bio-psycho-social issues.
Dr. Richard Besdine will document the workforce crisis and describe hopeful public-private-academic approaches that are helping health care providers get ready to care for an increasingly older and increasingly challenging group of patients.
Dr. Besdine is Greer Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Director of the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, and Director of the Division of Geriatrics in the Department of Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is also former Chief Medical Officer of the federal Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid). From 1972-86, Dr. Besdine served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and co-founded Harvard's Division on Aging with Dr. John Rowe.
This month's Conversations with GIA webinar is being co-sponsored by the John A. Hartford Foundation and the American Federation for Aging Research.
