Rutgers Hub for Aging Collaboration

What to Expect on LinkedIn: 📢 Timely Updates: Stay in the loop on latest efforts in the aging field. 💼 Professional Connections: Engage with other professionals passionate about aging & health equity 📚 Valuable Content: Follow us for content that informs and inspires.

We’re moving exclusively to LinkedIn! 🚗 As of Fall 2024, the Hub will consolidate our social media presence exclusively on #LinkedIn. We'll no longer post regular updates on Facebook or X. We’re excited to stay connected through LinkedIn. Follow us at: linkedin.com/company/agingc…

Upcoming #SocialWorkCE opportunity❗ 💻 Thurs, 8/22/24, @RutgersSSW Continuing Education Presents: Ethics Essentials in Geriatric Care | Led by Stephen Sidorsky, LCSW. This workshop is approved for all 50 states! Register today!: buff.ly/47uvkNz

Hub Buzz! @NJDHS announced a new grantmaking program to support #agefriendly communities: buff.ly/4cdCIPh. Local government & nonprofit organizations can apply for community planning grants & projects to implement the NJ Age-Friendly Blueprint. @KayleeMcGuire_

#HubBuzz❗ It was an exciting morning welcoming our incoming cohort of social work students for our Aging and Health Certificate Program Virtual Meet and Greet! 😊 We are proud of the 17 students accepted into the program and we look forward to the upcoming semester!

Clara was recently recognized as an AGE Early Career Scholar by the American Aging Association!

#MeetAHubAffiliate ❗Hub member Clara Scher is a PhD candidate at the Rutgers School of Social Work, an adjunct professor, and works in community gerontology. She specializes in research methods focused on older adults with dementia and their care partners.

@ACLgov @AARPpolicy Both reports: -Emphasize engagement, collaboration, & inclusion as key, cross-cutting values -Identify #agefriendly communities as a focal goal of a national plan Learn more: buff.ly/3WkKSzy.

#HubBuzz❗ Two recent national reports present frameworks for developing a U.S. national plan on aging, one from the federal government (led by @ACLgov) and the other from the private sector (@AARPpolicy).

This chapter is part of a new book "#Reimagining #AgeFriendlyCommunities: Urban #Ageing and #SpatialJustice," edited by our colleagues Tine Buffel @BuffelTine, Patty Doran @Patty_NZ, and Sophie Yarker @skyarker at @MUARG1.

Congrats Hub Director Emily Greenfield @agingworld, Jarmin Yeh @jarmin_yeh, and Melanie Plasencia @plasencia_z on your recent chapter, "Dismantling and Rebuilding Praxis for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: Towards an Emancipatory Approach." Download: go.rutgers.edu/agefriendlypra…

New event series on #Villages underway! ‼️📣 A series of six virtual summits are taking place this summer that seek to spur a national dialogue on #villages and #healthyaging #research. Learn more at: buff.ly/3xUmHzA @VtVNetwork @RANDCorporation @PCORI

@RutgersSSW The faculty member will be part of the SSW Hub for Aging Collaboration and will have additional opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration through the AHEAD University Presidential Diversity Hiring Initiative. For more information and to apply: buff.ly/45K5Snz.

@RutgersSSW has an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position with a focus on aging, neurocognition, and health equity. Applicants with practice experience working with individuals and families living with neurodegenerative conditions are preferred.

This online webinar will be led by Nicholas Torres | The Network: Towards Unity of Health, and Liz Hayden | Woods System of Care. The event will present a training webinar on budgeting for grant proposals. For more information and to register: buff.ly/3XFvKPl

#HubBuzz ❗💻🤓 Save the date! Tuesday, July, 2nd, 2024, Inclusive Healthy Communities presents Writing Budgets for Grant Proposals: An Overview from 10am-11am EST.

@AcademyHealth Congrats to Dr. Akincigil & Hub collaborators: Divya Bhagianadh, Clara J. Scher, Natalie E. Pope, and Emily A. Greenfield! 🎉 To learn more about how the Hub leverages health services research methods to bolster community-based aging services, visit: buff.ly/4cfIjFx

#HubBuzz❗ Hub Core Faculty Ayse Akincigil will present a paper on the opening day of the annual meeting of @AcademyHealth this Saturday, June 29, 2024 showcasing the Hub's cutting-edge work at the interface of aging and health services.

The second recording is “LGBTQ+ Aging with Pride: A Group for Adults 50+.” Leaders from JFCS of Southern NJ and LGBTQ+Aging With Pride:  buff.ly/4crN8LA

in housing and services for LGBTQ+ older adults across diverse racial, cultural, religious, and economic backgrounds. buff.ly/3z2hIgq

Happy Pride Month from the Hub! 🏳️‍🌈 In honor of this celebration, we share two recordings from InnovAGING NJ that took place in March of 2024 that features partnerships for change in New Jersey and beyond.