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hat geriatric knowledge is needed in their professional work, less than 5% of all masters level students in social work, and approximately 7% of doctoral level students specialize in aging. The Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Program is a $5.4 million dollar project to ensure that the country will have the necessary pool of trained and skilled geriatric social workers by creating faculty leaders specialized in geriatric research and teaching.

The Faculty Scholars Program is a major step toward increasing the visibility and desirability of geriatric social work so as to increase faculty commitment to training social workers to meet the growing and specialized needs of an aging population.

The John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc. of New York City is a private philanthropy established in 1929 by John A. Hartford, who was a chief executive of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. Nearly all of the Foundation's grants are directed to its Aging and Health Program, which addresses two major areas: Academic Geriatrics and Training; and Integrating and Improving Services for Elders.

The Faculty Scholars program is one of five funded as part of a Hartford Foundation initiative to enhance the capacity of social work education to meet the needs of the nation's older adults. The Initiative collaborates with social work education programs to prepare needed, aging-savvy social workers and improve the care and well being of older adults and their families. The other programs are focused on providing dissertation support, mentorship and leadership development for promising graduate students; developing and testing innovative, aging-rich field experiences for graduate students that connect communities and schools of social work; and improving curriculum and faculty development so that all social work students are prepared to meet the needs of older persons and their families.

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Contact: Christina Leone
cleone@geron.org
202-842-1275
The Gerontological Society of America
12-May-2003

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