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MemorialCare Recognized By U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Hospitals 41 Times

MemorialCare Recognized By U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Hospitals 41 Times

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Professor Keefe Named Partner in SAMHSA's New Center of Excellence in Behavioral Health Disparities in Aging

Search for: Professor Keefe Named Partner in SAMHSA’s New Center of Excellence in Behavioral Health Disparities in Aging BU CADER Advocacy Helps Pass Increased State Funding  for Elder Mental Health Outreach Bronwyn Keefe (PI) and the BU Center for Aging & Disability Education & Research (CADER) will partner with Rush University Medical Center in a 5-year, $3.5 million grant funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services organization (SAMHSA) to create a new research center called Engage, Educate, Empower for Equity: E4, The Rush Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Disparities in Aging. The E4 Center’s mission is to expand workforce capacity through innovative training of practitioners. Their focus is to ensure that community-based providers can implement evidence-based practices and programs (EBPs) in their work with vulnerable older adults who experience the greatest behavioral and physical health disparities. 

Age-Friendly Health Systems a prescription for geriatrician shortages, elder patient care?

PITTSFIELD — To Maura Brennan, the country’s “silver tsunami” is a good thing. As a geriatrician at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Brennan works with the elderly on a daily basis. In Brennan’s personal life, her elderly mother lived long enough to celebrate at her daughter’s wedding. “She still had an enormous amount to contribute at that time,” Brennan said. “That’s a success, that we have increasing numbers of people, frequently in good health, surviving to advanced ages.” The question, Brennan says, is how to care for the growing number of older Americans. While the U.S. elderly population is expected to swell by tens of millions in the next few decades, projections show that the number of geriatricians will increase only modestly, creating a massive deficit in high-quality elder care.