2012 Syracuse Seminar on Aging

The Medicare Expansion, Long Term Care Financing and the Boomer Cohort

Toni P. Miles, MD, Director, Institute of Gerontology, University of Georgia

Thursday, November 1st, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, Global Collaboratory, 060 Eggers Hall

This event was free and open to the public. A reception followed.

   View the Keynote adress video .

The Syracuse Seminar on Aging is co-sponsored by the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center of Upstate New York, the Center for Policy Research, and the Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute (ASI). Three of the past lectures have been published online as a CPR Policy Brief.

Previous Seminars on Aging:

•  Palliative Care: A Novel Solution to the Healthcare Crisis, by R. Sean Morrison, Policy Brief No. 43/2010.
• Our Grandparents, Our Parents, Our Future Selves: Optimizing Function in Old Age by Thomas M. Gill, Policy Brief No. 42/2010.
• Who Will Take Care of Tomorrow's Elderly? Recommendations from the Institute of Medicine by John Rowe. Dr. Rowe chaired the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans, which issued its final report on April 14, 2008. The report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce, is available on the National Academies Press website.
• Do We Want to Measure the Quality of Medical Care for Older People? The ACOVE Approach by Neil Wenger, Policy Brief No. 38/2008.
• Is It Time to Redesign Hospice? End-of-Life Care at the User Interface by David J. Casarett, Policy Brief No. 35/2007.
• Changing Economic Incentives of Long-Term Care by R. Tamara Konetzka, Policy Brief No. 32/2006. 

If you need more information, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive announcements of future Syracuse Seminars on Aging, please contact Kelly J. Bogart, (315) 443-2703, kbogart@maxwell.syr.edu