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Integrating Geriatrics into the Specialties of Internal Medicine:
Moving Forward from Awareness to Action
ASP Receives ‘Gerontologizing Clinical Guidelines’ Grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies
In September 2007, the Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc. provided a generous $250,000 grant to ASP to improve the care of older adults through the augmentation of clinical policies, clinical guidelines, or quality improvement metrics with content appropriate for the increasing number of elderly patients cared for by internists. Under the grant, these clinical policies will be produced and endorsed by 11 internal medicine specialty societies.
The Atlantic Philanthropies’ funding is a compliment to the ASP project “Integrating Geriatrics into the Specialties of Internal Medicine: Moving Forward from Awareness to Action,” funded by a $2.6 million grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation. Under the Atlantic Philanthropies grant, ASP will work with internal medicine specialty societies to conduct a review of existing clinical policies, propose targets and funding for revisions through an RFP mechanism, fund appropriately constructed initiatives that will be pursued by the specialty societies and geriatrics interest groups, and evaluate the short-term outcomes of these initiatives through expert review.
ASP anticipates this project will have several important outcomes. Experts from each of the specialty societies will review and augment 44 clinical guidelines, policies, or quality improvement metrics with recommendations relevant to the growing elderly population. Once created, these new policies can be disseminated through specialty society websites and educational materials made available to the societies’ physician members to influence the care delivered to elderly patients by internists.
To learn more about “Integrating Geriatrics into the Specialties of Internal Medicine” project, please visit the project website. For questions or comments, please contact the ASP Project Coordinator at (202) 861-9351 or policy@im.org.
About the Atlantic Philanthropies
The Atlantic Philanthropies are a group of Bermuda-based charitable foundations whose grant investments are focused internationally in 4 program fields: aging, disadvantaged children and youth, population health, and reconciliation and human rights. Atlantic's legacy outcome in aging is for older adults to be an integral part of society, living healthier, independent lives with dignity and meaning. For more information, please view www.atlanticphilanthropies.org.
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