Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Alex Dippold, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No. 6   November 1, 1999

College Receives Geriatric Team Training Grant Ithaca College has been awarded a three-year, $317,000 grant to develop an interdisciplinary geriatric training program for students, faculty, and rural allied health practitioners. The grant, from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration–Bureau of Health Professions, will be jointly administered by the Gerontology Institute and the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance. The project features an innovative training curriculum, supported by Web-based resources and linkages, that will be developed by the College in partnership with faculty from the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center, which operates under the auspices of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. The project targets faculty and students in occupational therapy, physical therapy, recreational therapy, and speech-language pathology and audiology. “Students and rural health practitioners will integrate classroom learning into clinical affiliation experiences at a wide range of health-care settings that serve older persons,” says John Krout, director of the Gerontology Institute and professor of gerontology. “In addition to strengthening interdisciplinary training of the Ithaca faculty and students, the grant will also improve the quality of care provided to older persons in rural areas and develop a model curriculum that can be applied in other allied health programs.” Ithaca is in good company in receiving one of the 16 grants awarded by the Bureau of Health Professions; the other institutions include the Universities of North Carolina, Texas, and Southern California, and Louisiana State University. Krout and John Bonaguro, assistant dean of the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, will serve as co–principal investigators on the project.