{"id":926,"date":"2016-03-14T15:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2016-03-14T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:13:32","slug":"what-were-doing-in-2016-thanks-to-your-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/what-were-doing-in-2016-thanks-to-your-support\/","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;re doing in 2016, thanks to your support&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nancy-Lundebjerg-casual-e1429195116528.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-531\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nancy-Lundebjerg-casual-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Nancy Lundebjerg casual\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Nancy E. Lundebjerg, MPA<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Chief Executive Officer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>American Geriatrics Society<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cI have never seen myself doing anything other than helping older adults.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n&#8212;Christian E. Gausvik, AGS Student Leadership Council Chair, aspiring geriatrician, and medical student at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine<\/p>\n<p>Even if I weren\u2019t the CEO of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), I would love this statement.<\/p>\n<p>Christian is logging 80-hour weeks and 36-hour shifts as a third-year medical student, but he still found time to organize our student engagement group, and he even launched his own charity event benefitting the Alzheimer\u2019s Association in Cincinnati. Christian represents the future of eldercare in several important ways: he\u2019s not only pursuing a career in geriatrics but he\u2019s also one of several trainees receiving special support and assistance from the AGS\u2019s Health in Aging Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you are probably familiar with the Foundation because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/news\/tip-sheets\/\">tip sheets and resources<\/a> you\u2019ve found right here at HealthinAging.org. Developing these is a critical part of what we do, but it doesn\u2019t end there. Since 1999, the Foundation has been providing public education about the health and well-being of older adults while also supporting people like Christian who represent the future of geriatrics.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been hard at work on both of these fronts since 1999, and last year alone we made some pretty impressive progress:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We helped 75 health professions students travel to the AGS Annual Scientific Meeting, where they were able to present their own research and learn from other experts and mentors.<\/li>\n<li>We developed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/medications-older-adults\/\">some important new recommendations about medication safety for older adults<\/a>, and we created a whole suite of online tools to make that guidance easier to understand for older adults and caregivers.<\/li>\n<li>We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/walking-is-the-best-medicine\/\">supported the Surgeon General&#8217;s call to action on walking<\/a> by compiling tips and resources to help older adults, their caregivers, and their healthcare professionals scale physical activity to make it fun and achievable for older individuals.<br \/>\nWe provided nearly 1 million older adults and caregivers with resources and information through HealthinAging.org.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->We wouldn\u2019t have been able to accomplish any of this without the support of the many people who donate to the AGS Health in Aging Foundation. In 2015 alone, we raised more than $200,000 for the Health in Aging Foundation, and we\u2019re already putting those funds to great use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve launched our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/caregiver-assessment\/\">first interactive tool<\/a> on HealthinAging.org to provide caregivers with personalized feedback about their health and well-being. Over the course of 2016, we&#8217;ll not only be launching even more interactive resources but we\u2019ll also be updating our website content to reflect the very latest insights on healthy aging and topics covering everything from older driver safety to new conditions and concerns that affect all of us as we age.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve also established one of our largest funds to-date to help geriatrics trainees like Christian attend the AGS Annual Scientific Meeting. We see this as an important opportunity for students, residents, and fellows who are about to embark on geriatrics careers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americangeriatrics.org\/files\/documents\/pdfs\/Current_Geriatrician_Shortfall.pdf\"> shortage of geriatrics experts in the U.S.<\/a> is serious, but so are trainees like Christian, who have never seen themselves doing anything other than helping older adults\u2014and the Health in Aging Foundation plays an important role linking the two together. Whether we\u2019re raising public awareness or advancing professional education, we\u2019re committed to nurturing enthusiasm for geriatrics expertise and developing the tools, resources, and workforce that can keep older adults safe, independent, and healthy for as long as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy E. Lundebjerg, MPA Chief Executive Officer American Geriatrics Society \u201cI have never seen myself doing anything other than helping older adults.\u201d &#8212;Christian E. Gausvik, AGS Student Leadership Council Chair, aspiring geriatrician, and medical student at the University of Cincinnati &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/what-were-doing-in-2016-thanks-to-your-support\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthinaging.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}