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Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry
This award was established in 1983 in memory of Jack Weinberg, M.D. to honor a psychiatrist, who, over the course of his/her career, has demonstrated special leadership or who has done outstanding work in clinical practice, training, and research into geriatric psychiatry.
Eligibility:
Candidates for the award must be psychiatrists who are nominated by an APA member.
Submission Requirements:
- A nomination letter summarizing the accomplishments of the nominee
- Two letters of endorsement from APA members,
- Current CV
- Bibliography
Hartford-Jeste Award for Future Leaders in Geriatric Psychiatry
This award recognizes an early career geriatric psychiatrist who has made noteworthy contributions to the field of geriatric psychiatry through excellence in research, teaching, clinical practice, and community service, and has demonstrated the potential to develop into a future leader in the field.
Eligibility:
The honoree must be a psychiatrist who holds a position no higher than Assistant Professor and is no more than 7 Years removed from completion of a geriatric psychiatry fellowship.
Submission Requirements:
- Nominations for this award must come from APA Members.
- Detailed nomination letter highlighting the nominee's contributions to geriatric psychiatry,
- Two additional letters of support highlighting more specific facets of the nominee's career and contributions.
- At least one letter from a geriatric psychiatrist familiar with the nominee's work
- Two of the letters should come from people outside of the nominee’s institution.
- CV that includes a list of publications as well as grant support.
Deadline: July 1, 2016
Send nominations to:
Sejal Patel: Staff Liaison, Council on Geriatric Psychiatry
Email: SPatel@psych.org
The Wall Street Journal
A few years ago, Luberta Whitfield suffered a stroke that left her right side paralyzed. The wheelchair-bound 87-year-old has emphysema and diet-controlled diabetes, is dependent on oxygen, and recently tore the right rotator cuff on her good arm. She also, amazingly, still lives in her own apartment. Ms. Whitfield is a participant in Independence at Home, a congressionally authorized pilot program. The program gives the sickest Medicare patients primary care right where they live.
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Psychiatric Times
Depression is a major public health issue and is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and economic burden. It is the third-greatest contributor to global disease burden1 and affects both low- and high-income countries, with a 12-month prevalence of 5.9 percent and 5.5 percent, respectively. There is a relative paucity of information on treatment of late-life treatment-resistant depression.
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CNET
Bev Dutro's 82-year-old mother has trouble remembering things. Sometimes she can't recall what she wore or who visited her last.
Dutro and her two siblings found caring for their mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's five years ago, increasingly difficult. They miscommunicated about visits and doctor appointments. When their mother imagined a fire in the house, they had a hard time figuring out if it was true.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
In a nutshell, feelings of satisfaction are high in early adulthood such as the 20s, then start to curve downward and hit rock bottom in middle age, around the late 40s to early 50s. Then, despite all those preconceptions about growing older, well-being actually starts to curve upward and keeps rising into at least the eighth decade.
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The Huffington Post
The likes of Airbnb have received huge amounts of publicity in recent years, and have undoubtedly brought homesharing into the mainstream. There are however other examples of the practice that are both more permanent and more socially worthwhile. Homeshare International are a body that promote the practice of homesharing, especially among the elderly population.
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By Denise A. Valenti
 As man's best friend, dogs contribute to our social well-being throughout our lifespan. However, understanding how our canine companions age is also contributing to our medical well-being. It turns out an aging dog has a natural development of cognitive decline that parallels some of the human dementias associated with aging. This includes the deposits of beta-amyloid in the brain and neural tissue that is considered the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease in humans.
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Long-Term Living
Communication is the foundation of resident choice, yet communication skills are among the first skills that people with dementia lose. Unable to express their needs, feelings and thoughts verbally, many people with cognitive decline will become frustrated, act out or even become violent.
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NPR
The next generation of senior citizens will be sicker and costlier to the health care system over the next 14 years than previous generations, according to a new report from the United Health Foundation. We're talking about you, baby boomers.
The report looks at the current health status of people ages 50 to 64 and compares them to the same ages in 1999.
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USA Today
Researchers at Harvard offered a new theory of Alzheimer's Disease that — if true — would upend our understanding of the disease and suggest new routes for treatment and prevention.
The researchers think that the immune system may play a key role in the development of Alzheimer's, which slowly robs people of their memory and is eventually fatal.
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