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AONE receives grant to develop elder care resources
Source: AHA News
Original Source The American Organization of Nurse Executives has received a grant to support the Resourcefully Enhancing Aging in Specialty Nursing initiative. The $17,000 grant from the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at the New York University College of Nursing will allow AONE to expand…
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Eldercare Workforce Alliance to Address the Critical Shortage of Healthcare Workers Capable of Meeting the Needs of Older Adults
Source: Eldercare Workforce Alliance
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) -- a new coalition of 25 leading organizations representing older adults and the eldercare workforce, including family caregivers, healthcare professionals, and direct-care workers -- is holding its founding meeting this week in Washington, D.C. This wide array of national organizations…
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Experts Work to Transform Nursing Home Care
Source: NurseZone.com
What are the best ways to improve nursing home care in the United States? Original Source By Jennifer Larson, contributor What are the best ways to improve nursing home care in the United States? That’s the question asked by a group of academics and nursing…
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In Tight Times, Many Nonprofits Feel the Pinch as Contributions Dwindle
Source: The New York Times
By GLENN COLLINS Could we have picked a worse time for a gala? asked Richard J. Moylan, president of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, regretting the disappointing turnout for the institution's fund-raising dinner on Friday night. He could have spoken for hundreds of nonprofits of all…
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Filling the Void
Source: Fast Company
Introducing the 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners--25 entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can't stand a vacuum. The entrepreneurial mind abhors a vacuum. Market failures, unmet demand, even the maddening lure of a blank napkin--all beckon as explicit…
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N.C. special licensing program rewards long-term care providers who maintain high-quality workforce
Source: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
For release: Immediate Date: August 21, 2006 Contact: Jim Jones (919) 733-9190 RALEIGH North Carolina has created a first-in-the-nation program to help reduce the turnover of nurse aides and other direct care workers who provide hands-on care to hundreds of thousands of the state's elderly…
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Later Life Is Ripe for Reinvention, Nonprofit Leader Asserts in New Book
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Marc Freedman has emerged over the past decade as the nonprofit world's most prominent crusader for a movement to reinvent retirement. In his new book, Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, Mr. Freedman goes a step further: He envisions a…
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Encore --- In Search of a Purpose: Marc Freedman thinks 'encore careers' can help baby boomers -- and the country
Source: Wall Street Journal
With retirement for many Americans now expected to stretch out 20 or 30 years, the question arises: How best to fill that time? Perhaps the answer is an "encore career." That's the hope of Marc Freedman, founder and chief executive officer of Civic Ventures, a…
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Increasing the Civic Engagement of Third Age Health Professionals
Source: American Health Initiatives
Taking Action From its inception AHI has worked to build a sustainable platform for public dialogue about a quality system in which every American is assured equitable and affordable access to basic health care. To do that we designed and successfully tested two central platform…
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School Health Care Advocates Urge President Obama: Build On What's Working
Source: Hartford Courant
By Jesse White-Fres, Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers StatewideTop officials with the School-Based Health Alliance applaud President Obama for inspiring philanthropic and corporate communities to invest more deeply in the success of young minority men, and offer a model that could be key to achieving…
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