Ithaca College Gerontology Institute

Featured Document

Rural Aging Summit Final Report

Sponsors

The Rural Aging Summit is hosted by the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute in collaboration with:

• Martin Golden, Chair, Senate Committee on Aging
• Jeffrey Dinowitz, Chair, Assembly Committee on Aging
• Steven Englebright, Past Chair, Assembly Committee on Aging
• Senator George Winner Jr., Chair, NYS Legislative Commission on Rural Resources
• New York State Office for the Aging
• Community and Rural Development Institute, Cornell University
• Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
• Cornell Cooperative Extension
• Western New York Healthcare Association
• AARP

 

The Rural Aging Summit to be held at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York on September 20th and 21st 2007 is designed as a working conference to raise awareness of the challenges and opportunities presented by the growing elder population in rural areas.

The conference developed a comprehensive report of policy recommendations to address these concerns at the state and local level.  It was the first such event ever held in the state.

The data on this web site are provided as a background for the discussions which will take place during the Summit. This website was made possible by a grant from the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York.  The Community Health Foundation is a private non-profit foundation the mission of which is to improve the health and health care of the people of Western and Central New York.