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quality of life for chronically ill persons through basic and applied
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& Health Care Research
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"Improving
quality of life for chronically ill persons through basic and applied
research"
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Center
for Gerontology
& Health Care Research |
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In The NEWS... National Institute on Aging Award Brown To Create Most Comprehensive Long-Term Care Database The National Institute on Aging has awarded members of Brown University’sCenter forGerontology and Health Care Research a major grant to create a first-ever national database that will allow researchers to study the impact ofstate policies and market forces on the quality of long-term care. The award comes at a time of increasing demand forthe services of nursing homes and other long-term care providers; By 2020, an estimated 12 million U.S. elderly will need some form of long-term care. click HERE for more About the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research The Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research is a nationally prominent research center that studies the diverse health and social service needs of elderly and other persons with chronic illnesses. Since the early 1980's, center faculty members have had substantial success in securing funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Health Care Financing Administration, as well as from numerous philanthropic foundations. The research findings of center faculty have, as intended, figured prominently over the years as valuable guides for government agencies making decisions regarding policy aimed at improving health and health care for our aging and disabled populations. Initiating new lines of research on previously unstudied or understudied populations is a hallmark of the center work. The Center for Gerontology and
Health Care Research is located on the campus of Brown University in the
city of Providence, Rhode Island. |
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