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        The Evidence Database on Aging Care (EDAC)

The Evidence Database on Aging Care (EDAC) is an online database to help scholars, policy analysts, and advocates stay on top of the latest research and innovations in aging care, including health care and social services. As of 2010, the EDAC is no longer being updatd, however, the information is still useful to the research community. Access EDAC



        The HPPAE National Leadership Award

The Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education (HPPAE) Leadership Award is presented to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in aging education.

2011 Awardees

2010 Awardees

2009 Awardees

        2008 Awardees



2012 Student Publications

Generativity Student e-Journal Fall 2012 Edition [WEB]

Generativity Student e-Journal Winter 2012 Edition [WEB]

HPPAE Happenings - Student Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2012 Edition [PDF]




2011 Student Publications

        HPPAE Happenings - Student Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2011 Edition [PDF]


2011 Conference Proceedings

CSWE 2011 57th Annual Program Meeting

  • The Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education: Flexible & Adaptable Field Education Model
    • Building & Sustaining Community Partnerships, Virgina Cooke Robbins, University of Houston [PPT]
    • Interdisciplinary Learning Opportunities, Paul Gould, Binghamton University [PPT]
    • Recruitment of Diverse Students, Karen Bullock, North Carolina State University [PPT]
    • HPPAE in Small Towns & Rural Areas, Kristina Hash, West Virginia University [PPT]
  • Geriatric Social Work Initiative
    • Integration of Gero Field & Classrom Education: Reconsidering Possibilities, Nancy Hooyman, CSWE Gero-Ed Center [PPT]
  • HPPAE Partners Meeting 
    • HPPAE Overview, Emma Barker, Social Work Leadership Institute [PPT]
    • HPPAE VHA/GRECC Initiative, Patricia Volland, Social Work Leadership Institute & Nora O'Brien-Suric, The John A. Hartford Foundation [PPT]
    • Building a Successful University-Community Partnership Towards Sustaining HPPAE, Anwar Najor-Durack, Wayne State University & Marcia Spira, Loyola University [PPT]
    • What Social Work Brings to the Inter-Professional Team, Kristina Hash, West Virginia University [PPT]
    • Contributions to Inter-Professional Practice, Paul Gould, Binghamton University [PPT]

Aging in America – 2011 Annual Conference of the American Society on Aging

  • All Day Symposium: Linking the Social and Medical Models through Care Coordination in Aging Network [PDF]
  • Keynote by Stephen Counsell [PDF]
  • Evidence Based Models:
    • Promising Models of Care Coordination for Beneficiaries with Chronic Illness [PPT]
    • Application of Technology to Enhance Coordination and Care [PPT]
  • Best Practices
    • Linking the Social and Medical Models through Care Coordination in the Aging Network [PPT]
    • Application of Technology to Enhance Coordination and Care [PPT]
  • State Systems
    • How Does A Fee For Service State Respond to the Need for Care Integration? [PPT]
    • Federal Initiatives to Support State/Community-Based Approaches to Coordinated Care [PPT]
    • Managing Care in Wisconsin [PPT]
  • Federal Policy & Practice Implications
    • The Basics of the Older American Act [PDF]
2011 Aging and Society Conference
  • The Impact of Improved Communication Systems on Student Leadership Outcomes, Melody J. Wilding, Social Work Leadership Institute [PPT]



2010 Publications (in press or review)

Kayoko C. Nakao, JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez, Frances P. Lawrance, Patricia J. Volland. Examination of the Psychometric Properties of the Knowledge of Aging Social Work Quiz. (In Press).

Noell L. Rowan, Anna C. Faul, Julie Birkenmaier, JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez. Social Work Knowledge of Community-Based Services for Older Adults . (In Review).

Julie Birkenmaier, Jami Curley, Noell L. Rowan. Rotational Models of Social Work Education: Student Knowledge Outcomes in a National Geriatric Field Education Project . (In Review).

2010 Research Reports

The Social Work Leadership Institute of the New York Academy of Medicine. (2010, May). Strengthening Services for Older Adults through Changes to the Older Americans Act. Recommendations for the reauthorization of OAA 2011, A report for the Administration on Aging (AoA). A report prepared for The Social Work Leadership Institute of The New York Academy of Medicine and The National Coalition on Care Coordination. (In Press).

Golden, R. and Volland, P. Healthcare Professionals Work to Improve the Delivery of Transitional Care for Elders. American Society on Aging, Aging Today Online, 2010, 1(3).

The New York Academy of Medicine Center for Evaluation. (2010, March). Perspectives on Care Coordination: Voices of Older New Yorkers. A report prepared for The Social Work Leadership Institute of the New York Academy of Medicine. (Available: PDF)

The Social Work Leadership Institute of the New York Academy of Medicine. (2010, June). Comprehensive care coordination interventions which positively impact hospital length of stay. A report prepared for The Social Work Leadership Institute of the New York Academy of Medicine (Available: http://www.searchedac.org/resources.php)

2010 Student Publications

HPPAE Happenings Winter 2010

HPPAE Happenings Summer 2010

Generativity Student e-Journal Winter 2010

2010 Conference Proceedings

The International Conference for Urban Health 2010: Building a Social Work Workforce for Older Adults: An Interprofessional Model, Geriatric Assessment, Debra Fromm Faria, SUNY Brockport & Thomas Caprio, The University of Rochester Medical Center



2009 Publications (in press or review)

Berkenmaier, J. Rowan, N., Damron-Rodriguez, JA, Lawrance, F.P. & Volland, P. (2009). Social Work Knowledge of Facts on Aging: Outcome evidence from a national field education initiative. Journal of Educational Gerontology 35(9),784-800.

Damron-Rodriguez, J.A., Ranney, M., Goodman, C., Min, J.W. & Takahashi, N. The state of gerontological social work education in California. Journal of Social Work Education. Journal, (In Review).

Lee, S.E, Damron-Rodriguez, J.A., Lawrance F. P., & Volland, P. (2009). Geriatric social work career tracking: Graduates of the Practicum Partnership Program. Journal of the Gerontological Social Work. Journal (53(4), 336-353.

2009 Research Reports

The Social Work Leadership Institute of the New York Academy of Medicine. (2009, August). Who is Qualified to Coordinate Care? A report prepared for the New York State Department of Health and The State Office for the Aging. New York, NY. (Available: PDF)

Berenson, R., Howell, J., (2009, July). Structuring, Financing, and Paying for Effective Chronic Care Coordination. A report prepared for the National Coalition on Care Coordination. Available: INSERT N3C - Financing Care Coordination.PDF

The Social Work Leadership Institute of the New York Academy of Medicine. (2009, October). Toward the Development of Care Coordination Standards: An Analysis of Care Coordination in Programs For Older Adults. A report prepared for The New York State Department of Health and The State Office for the Aging. New York, NY.

Council on Social Work Education and the Social Work Leadership Institute. (2009, October). Advanced gero social work practice. (Available from the Council on Social Work Education, 1725 Duke Street, Suite 500, Alexandria, VA 22314 or http://www.searchedac.org/resources.php)

Brown, Randall (2009, March). The Promise of Care Coordination: An Analysis of Care Coordination Models that Can Reduce Hospitalization and Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries and Improve Quality of Care. A report prepared for the National Coalition on Care Coordination (N3C). (Available:  PDF)

2009 Student Publications

HPPAE Happenings Spring 2009

HPPAE Happenings Winter 2009

HPPAE Happenings Fall 2009

Generaitivity Student e-Journal, Winter 2009

2009 Book Chapters

Damron-Rodriguez, J.A., Volland, P.J., Wright, M.E. & Hooyman, N.R. Transforming Social Work Education: A Decade of Accomplishment from the Hartford geriatric social work approach. Gerontological Social Work: Lessons Learned for Social Work Education. National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Press.


2008 Publications

Damron-Rodriguez, J.A. & Effros, R. (2008). Innovations in student-centered teaching for general education in aging. Gerontology and Geriatric Education, Vol. 29 (3).

Damron-Rodriguez, J.A. (2008). Developing competence for nurses and social workers: evidence-based approaches to education. American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 108, No. 9, 40-46.

Damron-Rodriguez, J.A. (2008). Developing competence for nurses and social workers: evidence-based approaches to education. Journal of Social Work Education, Vol. 44, No. 3, 27-37. [Also published in the American Journal of Nursing see above]

Rosenfeld, P., Taylor, E., Liu, C., Volland, P. (2008) Articulating the Evidence Base for Effective Social Work Practices: Building a Database to Support a Geriatric Social Work Policy Agenda. Social Work in Public Health, Vol. 23(6).

2008 Research Reports

The Social Work Leadership Institute of the New York Academy of Medicine. (2008, December). Toward a Care Coordination Policy for America's Older Adults An Overview and recommendations for President-elect Barack Obama and his Transition Team. A report prepared for National Coalition on Care Coordination (N3C)

2008 Research Monographs and Major Reports

Moon, A., Wilson, S., Takahashi, N., Damron-Rodriguez, J.A. & Goodman, C. (2008). Aging Inititave Labor Force Survey I: Public Services for Older Adults. http://calswec.berkeley.edu


2007 Publications

Damron-Rodriguez, J.A., Lawrance, F.P., Barnett, D., & Simmons, J. (2007). Developing geriatric social work competencies for field education. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 48(1/2), 139-169.

Lawrance, F, Damron-Rodriguez, J, Rosenfeld, P., Sisco, S. and Volland, P. (2007). Strengthening field education in aging through university-community agency partnership: The Practicum Partnership Program. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, Vol. 50(1/2), 135-154.


2006 Publications

Funderbunk, B., Damron-Rodriguez , J., Simmons, WJ. Creating Consortia Across the Continuum of Care: Geriatric Social Work Field Education. Social Work Education. 2006; 25(6): 543-568.

Funderburk, B., Damron-Rodriguez, J.A., Levy-Storms, L., & Solomon, D.H. (2006). Endurance of undergraduate attitudes toward older adults, Journal of Educational Gerontology, 32, 447-462.

Lawrance, F., Damron-Rodriguez J., Rosenfeld, P., Sisco, S., Volland, P. Strengthening Field Education in Aging through University-Community Agency Partnership: The Practicum Partnership Program. (In press). Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

Rizzo, V., Rowe, J. Studies of the Cost-Effectiveness of Social Work Services in Aging: A Review of the Literature.

Rosenfeld, P., Taylor, E., Liu, C., Volland, P. Articulating the Evidence Base for Effective Social Work Practices: Building a Database to Support a Geriatric Social Work Policy Agenda. (In press). Journal of Health and Social Policy.

Caring for an Aging America: A case for Increasing the Ranks of Social Workers Who Care for Older Adults. A White Paper Response to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services March 2006 Report to Congress. The Social Work Leadership Institute of the New York Academy of Medicine.

2006 Book Chapters

Volland P., Keepnews D. (2006) Generalized and Specialized Hospitals. In Berkman B. et al (Eds.) Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging (pp. 413-422). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.


2005 Publications

Damron-Rodriguez, J. (2005). Moving ahead: Developing geriatric social work competencies. In Berkman B. The Handbook of Social Work and Aging, Oxford University Press.

Damron-Rodriguez J., Lawrance F.P., Barnett, D & Simmons J.W. (in press) Developing geriatric social work competencies for field education. Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

Hadden, B., Damron-Rodriguez, J., Lawrance F.P., Dunkle, R., & Barnette, D. (under review) Competency-driven geriatric social work field education. The Practicum Partnership Program. Journal of Social Work Education.

Ivry, J., Lawrance F.P., Damron-Rodriguez, J., & Cooke Robbins, V. (2005) Field Rotation: A viable model for educating social workers for aging practice. Journal of Social Work Education; 41(3): 407-426.

Sisco S, Volland P, Gorin S. (2005). Social work leadership and aging: meeting the demographic imperative. Health Soc Work; 0(4):344-7.

Volland P, Sisco S. (2005). The aging imperative: preparing the social work labor force. Currents; 49(7):3, 10.