Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is enhancing its curriculum in the field of aging and geriatric services.

With a more than $60,000 grant from the McGregor Foundation, M.C. "Terry" Hokenstad, the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor at the Mandel School, will establish the Program for Innovative Education in Aging.

"We will identify and examine innovative programs for meeting the health and social service needs of the elderly, both in the U.S. and abroad, and incorporate knowledge gained from these programs into the Mandel School curriculum," Hokenstad said.

A second element of the program will be to share best practices information with the leadership of Cuyahoga County agencies providing services to the elderly. The Mandel School expects to offer workshops for health and social services professionals in the fall of 2004 to share the information gathered under the program.

The Mandel School offers a concentration in aging as part of its MSSA degree, including courses in family caregiving, death and dying, aging policy and service delivery and social work serving older people.

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