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Alliance in the NewsCrisis of age requires cure
April 5, 2008 | Financial Times
Related topics: Aging Research Caregiving Geriatric Training Quality of Care"Funding geriatric medicine is just one area where philanthropy can make a big difference. To achieve wider impact, however, ageing needs to move from an orphan to a mainstream issue. More big funders also need to emerge as Atlantic and Reynolds are limited-life foundations, spending themselves out of business."
“The population numbers clearly point to older patients dominating the healthcare delivery in the US and most of the developed world but we have been rather phobic about geriatrics, geriatric medicine and ageing,” says Daniel Perry, executive director of the Alliance for Aging Research.
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Alliance in the NewsThe Right Cure for Ailing Elder Care?
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Press ReleaseNational Campaign to Help Older Americans Manage Medicines
The Consumer Health Education Center (CHEC) launched a national education campaign to help mature Americans better manage their health, specifically regarding the over-the-counter (OTC) medicines they take. There are more than 100,000 over-the-counter medicines on the market today and those aged 60 and over use more than one third of all OTCs purchased.
