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NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 22, 2002 -- Donna E. Shalala, Ph.D., will deliver the keynote address at a Summit Meeting on baby boomers and aging entitled ???Can My Eighties Be Like My Fifties???? The meeting will be held Friday, Oct. 25 at The New York Academy of Medicine, which is co-sponsoring the event.
Shalala is President of the University of Miami and served as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Clinton. Her address, ???The Greying of America (and the World!),??? will touch upon the many issues impacting America???s senior population, which will swell to an unprecedented size as boomers age. Shalala will speak from 9:15-10 a.m. on topics such as the status of Medicare and social security, prescription drug assistance, and care and housing options for the aging. John Rother, the Policy and Strategy Director for AARP, will give the respondent address from 10:05-10:25 p.m.
???We???ll have the largest cohort of people turning 65 ??? the baby boomers ??? in 2011,??? said Patricia J. Volland, MBA, MSW, the Academy???s Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration. ???We???re trying to be prepared.??? Volland is Project Director for the Geriatric Practicum Partnership Program, a national effort to change graduate social work education and thereby increase the number of social work students pursuing jobs working with older adults.
Roughly 78 million babies were born between 1946 and about 1964 (around the time that birth control pills were invented). The U.S. had 35 million people age 65 and older as of the 2000 Census, and as boomers age, that number is expected to double by 2030. The Academy has co-sponsored three invitational Summit Meetings in the past year to pinpoint boomers??? future needs and ensure that those needs are translated into effective college educational curricula and teaching methods.
Friday???s event will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 20 at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Ave. (on 103rd St.). The meeting will include a question-and-answer session, discussion groups and a wrap-up. Media should register in advance with Kathryn Cervino by calling 212.822.7285, or via email at kcervino@nyam.org. The conference is funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It is co-sponsored by the Academy???s Social Work Fellows, the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College, The International Longevity Center, Bronx VAMC Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, AARP, and the Consortium of New York Geriatric Education Centers.
The New York Academy of Medicine is a non-profit institution founded in 1847 that is dedicated to enhancing the health of the public through research, education and advocacy, with a particular focus on disadvantaged urban populations.
Posted on October 22, 2002
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The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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