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| International Longevity Center-USA | April-May 2008 |
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Caregiver Training Examined in Southern CA Conference
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 Do professional in-home caregivers receive proper training? The Caregiving Project for Older Americans will examine who are the professional in-home caregivers in the United States and how they are trained at a consensus conference this week, funded by the UniHealth Foundation.
The conference, to be held in Los Angeles on May 8, will bring together ten distinguished caregiving experts to review caregiving curricula and training programs through the country. While the conference program will be national in scope, special emphasis
will be on Los Angeles and Orange Counties in Southern California, two of the
most diverse and populous areas in the country.
Members of the initiatives Caregiving Training
Task Force and participants in the conference include Donna Benton, Ph.D., University
of Southern California; Marie A. Bernard, M.D., University of Oklahoma,
College of Medicine; Cordula Dick-Muehlke, Ph.D., Adult
Day Services of Orange
County;
Kathleen Kelly, M.P.A.,Family Caregiver Alliance; Mary Ellen Kullman, M.P.H, Archstone
Foundation; Vera Salter, Ph.D., National Clearinghouse
on the Direct Care Workforce at the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute; Vicki Schmall, Ph.D., Executive Director of Aging Concerns; E. Percil Stanford, Ph.D., Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Monika White, Ph.D., WISE & Healthy Aging;and Beth Vaughan-Wrobel, EdD, RN, FAAN, Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education.
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Board of Directors Welcomes New Members
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The ILC-USA announced last month the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors. As a result
of the ILC's modification of its affiliate relationship with Mount Sinai School
of Medicine earlier this year, two seats on the board are named by Mount Sinai's
president. Those included Dr. Albert Siu, chair of the Brookdale Department of
Geriatrics and Adult Development who returns to the board on which he served earlier and Mount Sinai Medical Center board member, Andrew
Heienman. Paul Gilbert, a co-founder of MedAvante, was also appointed.  Paul M. Gilbert is co-founder of MedAvante, a pharmaceutical services organization.
Prior to MedAvante, Gilbert was VP of Marketing and Strategy for Princeton eCom.
Gilbert has over 19 years in general management and marketing
experience working with Johnson & Johnson, Arm & Hammer, Booz
Allen, and Gillette. Gilbert graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin
College and received his MBA from Harvard University.
 Andrew D. Heineman, a retired attorney from Proskauer Rose LLP, is a board member of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Williams College. Heineman has also served as trustee and Chairman of the Board of Jewish Home & Hospital LifeCare System, one of the
oldest, largest and most advanced non-profit geriatric centers in the country. Heineman is a graduate of Williams Collage and received his law degree from Yale University.
 Albert Siu, M.D. is the Ellen and Howard C. Katz
Chairman's Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult
Development. Dr. Siu graduated from Yale Medical School and went on to
complete a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship as a Robert
Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCLA. He joined the UCLA faculty in
1985 in Medicine with a joint appointment at RAND. He served as Chief
of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at UCLA from 1989 until his
departure in 1993 to become a Deputy Commissioner in the New York State
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Community College Caregiver Training RFP Released
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The critical lack of family and paraprofessional caregivers for
older adults has motivated renewal of the Community College Caregiver
Training Initiative for a second year. With funding from MetLife
Foundation, The Caregiving Project for Older Americans, a project housed within the ILC-USA, has released a Request for Proposals (RFP)
and will award up to twelve $25,000 grants to community colleges to
establish new caregiver training programs or to build upon existing
programs.
The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2008. At a minimum, planning
stages for implementation awarded program must begin by September 2008;
full implementation of awarded training program must begin by Spring
2009. Final selection of grantees will be made July 2008. "Community colleges can play a pivotal role in meeting the increased
need for caregiver training," said Sibyl Jacobson, president and CEO, MetLife Foundation. "These grants will offer opportunities for community colleges across the country." |
ILC-USA Leadership to Visit Intel Headquarters
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 Drs. Robert Butler and Everette Dennis will travel to Portland, OR to meet with scientists at Intel's headquarters May 7. Eric Dishman, global director of product research and innovation and Paul Crawford, director of medical equipment platforms will meet with Drs. Butler and Dennis to discuss Intel's latest work on technologies for the aging population. Dr. Butler will also present to a larger group of Intel scientists an overview of his new book The Longevity Revolution.
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Director of Corporate Relations Heads to Africa
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Joris de Vries, ILC-USA's director of corporate relations, departed the ILC at the end of April for a very exciting new assignment in northern Tanzania with the FEMI Foundation, a Dutch philanthropy. He'll be engaged in community development and economic projects inspired in part by the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
"Joris has done a magnificent job for us at the ILC leading our corporation relations outreach, supervising the Sleep and Healthy Aging Project as well as work with MetLife Mature Market Institute, Phillips, and others, especially the Alliance for Heath & the Future with Pfizer," says Dr. Everette Dennis, ILC-USA Executive Director and COO. "He has enhanced our funding and our ties with many new constituents. Additionally, he has been a wonderful and most cooperative colleague here at the ILC."
We wish Joris, his wife, Sarah and their son Jonah best of luck in their exciting adventure!
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Upcoming Events
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| May 29
Brown Bag Lunch Presentation: The Top Ten Legal Issues in Aging
Noted Elder Law Attorney Daniel G. Fish will give a presentation on major elder legal issues facing society today.
June 1
World Science Festival: 90 is the New 50 >The Science of Longevity
Join leading longevity researchers, including the ILC-USA's President
& CEO Dr. Robert N. Butler, to investigate the facts and
implications surrounding scientific developments - emerging
technologies, novel therapies, and innovative medical practices - that
forecast a radical extension of a healthy human life.
June 1-6
9th Annual Age Boom Academy
The ILC-USA's invitation-only Age Boom Academy will be held in early June. Gearing up for the presidential elections,
the program will be themed "Politics of Aging and Longevity".
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