April 3, 2003 - Aging people get help in overcoming small barriers
...improvements are a result of their participation in the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community demonstration project, a joint effort between the Jewish Federation of St. Louis and Washington University's Center for Aging. The Jewish Federation received a grant of almost $1.3 million from the federal Department of Health and Human services for the project, which seeks to help aging people continue to live in their own homes.
<<Read More - Adobe Acrobat .pdf>> From: April 3, 2003 Saint Louis Post Dispatch
October 18 , 2002 - Community
John C. Morris, M.D., director of the Center for Aging, describes the NORC project at a news conference at the Jewish Community Center Oct. 7. <<Read More>> From: October 18,2002, Record (Washington University)
October 9 , 2002 - Study aims to keep people out of nursing homes
The Jewish Federation of St. Louis and Washington University's Center for Aging hosted about 200 older people Monday as they kicked off their program to help keep older adults in their own homes longer.
Specialists from the university will study some of the 1,600 older adults living near the Jewish Community Center in Creve Coeur to find out what services and tools the residents need to keep them out of nursing homes. The Jewish Federation will then help provide those services.
Older adults began signing up for the 17-month study and program Monday. For more information, call the Center for Aging at 314-286-2881. From: October 9,2002, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 23, 2002 - Local retirement community focus of study
The University's Center for Aging is collaborating with the Jewish Federation of St. Louis to investigate naturally occurring retirement communities, or NORCs. <<Read More>> From: August 23,2002, Record (Washington University)
August 7, 2002 - St. Louis gets $1.26 million in grants
Known as Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORC), the project is the result of an initiative by Jewish Federations to address the needs of an aging Jewish community within the general aging population. The St. Louis Jewish Federation is one of five nationwide committed to the project, which just received $3.7 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<<Read More>> From: week of August 7,2002, St. Louis Jewish Light newspaper
August 2, 2002 - Study will focus on older adults in Creve Coeur neighborhood
Help is on the way for Gornak and other older adults in her neighborhood in the form of a $1.3 million grant the Department of Health and Human Services was scheduled to announce on Friday.
The Jewish Foundation of St. Louis and Washington University will use the grant to study how best to provide services that will keep older adults living in their own homes for as long as possible. <<Read More - Adobe Acrobat .pdf>> From: August 2,2002, Saint Louis Post Dispatch
Summer, 2002 - Center for Aging is Established
To meet the needs of the increasing population of older Americans, the University has estatblished a new, University-wide Center for Aging. "This collaborative effort aims to help older adults achieve a more satisfying quality of life," says John C. Morris, director of the center and the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Professor of Neurology in the School of Medicine. <<Read More - Adobe Acrobat .pdf>> From: Summer 2002, Washington University in St. Louis Magazine
June 7, 2002 - Galvin Honored with Three Awards
James E. Galvin, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, received three awards in recognition of his research on Lewy body dementia, the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease.
Galvin received the Alene and Meyer Kopolow Award from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation at the inaugural annual awards ceremony sponsored by Washington University's new Center for Aging. The award provides $2,000 in recognition of exemplary achievement in geriatrics by junior faculty or trainees, and honors the Kopolows' efforts to improve geriatric care by Barnes-Jewish Hospital and its physicians. The Kopolow Award is not a yearly award, but rather is bestowed upon a recipient only when achievement justifies the reward. <<Read More>>
Spring, 2002 - Caring for an aging population: Washington University establishes Center for Aging
To meet the needs of the increasing population of older Americans, Washington University in St. Louis has estatblished a new, University-wide Center for Aging.
"The center's focus is on productive aging," says John C. Morris, MD, director of the Center for Aging and the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Professor of Neurology. "Our goal is to enable older adults to remain engaged and live happier, healthier and longer lives." <<Read More - Adobe Acrobat .pdf>> From: Spring 2002, Outlook
February 6, 2002 - Washigton University Announces Center for Aging
To meet the needs of the increasing population of older Americans, Washington University in St. Louis has established a new, university-wide Center for Aging. This collaborative effort will apply the University's resources to help older adults achieve a more satisfying quality of life. <<Read More>>
Winter, 2001 - Leading by Example
When Harvey Friedman's mother died, he and his wife, Dorismae, wanted to honor the memory of his parents with a gift to B'nai Amoona Synagogue in University City, Missouri. Harvey: "I always thought I'd like whatever I did to be anonymous, but the rabbi said that was the wrong way to do it." Dorismae: "We were people of modest means, and he [the rabbi] said it would show other people in our category that they could do it too." Harvey: "Setting an example was never my intention." Dorismae: "But that was Rabbi Lipnick's advice." <<Read More - Adobe Acrobat .pdf>> From: Winter 2001, Washington University in St. Louis Magazine
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