I Learned They’re Not Dead: Health Professions Trainees Say the Funniest Things
One of the problems we face in our work at the Foundation is that ageism and ignorance about what it takes to provide high quality health care to older adults is so ingrained that most of the time it...
View Article“The Patients Doctors Don’t Know”
The day after I posted a blog about the importance of medical students receiving education in geriatrics, Rosanne Leipzig, MD, published an excellent op-ed in the New York Times on the same topic...
View ArticleCan Geriatrics Survive?
As part of its theory of change, the Foundation has made big bets on the specialty of geriatric medicine. (Click here for a nice summary of what geriatricians do.) Unfortunately, we are losing the...
View ArticleCaring for the Elderly, Op-Ed by Lewis A. Lipsitz, MD in The Boston Globe
The theme of the Foundation’s annual report this year was leadership–leadership to change the way the US health system prepares health professionals to care for older adults and the resulting quality...
View ArticleThe Loan Forgiveness Bandwagon Needs to Get Rolling
Most people agree that loan forgiveness for medical students who agree to undergo geriatrics training would be a good thing. The American Geriatrics Society has a nice summary of the topic here....
View ArticleWishing Upon an MSTAR
While attending the American Geriatrics Society scientific meeting this past weekend, I had a glimpse of the future: Medical students participating in the MSTAR (Medical Student Training in Aging...
View Article“But I See Old People Everywhere”: Dispelling a Myth
Photo by Annie Levy What will it take to ensure that all physicians are competent to care for their large and growing numbers of older patients? Despite being only 13 percent of the population, older...
View ArticlePhilanthropy 1.0: Still Building Better Mousetraps
A caricature of how philanthropy stimulated social change in “the good old days,” derisively called Philanthropy 1.0, describes the process this way: first, private funding helped successfully develop...
View ArticleDiary of an MSTAR Student: Looking Back and Seeing the Future
Last week, Chris Langston asked readers to assist us with our future grantmaking and strategic plan (Help Us Spend $100,000,000!). He requested input to help us define the nature of the problem in...
View ArticleGetting Them While They’re Still Young
As the Grants Manager at the Foundation, my access to grantees is mostly limited to the reports they periodically send to us and the occasional evaluation site visit I attend. So, my focus is usally on...
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