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2007 Grants

Supporting Research In Aging

Alliance for Aging Research
$30,000
Washington, DC
One-year grant for continued program support.

Asian Health Coalition of Illinois
$15,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant in partial support of health survey of residents of Chinatown to compare community needs with other local areas and develop prevention interactions.

Center for Economic and Policy Research
$57,000
Washington, DC
Second-year support for a public education program focusing on options for restructuring the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit to make it simpler and less costly for beneficiaries.

Council for Jewish Elderly
$213,111
Chicago, Illinois
Two-year grant to refine a self-neglect assessment instrument, validate it, establish its psychometric properties, and identify outcome measures to study the impact of services on self-neglecting seniors.

Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, Inc.
$5,000
New York, New York
One-year grant to examine gene therapy in treatment of IBD.

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation
$20,000
Hollywood, Florida
One-year grant to continue refinement of a simple blood test to identify individuals at risk of heart attack.

Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
$5,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to support research to develop improved therapies for adult onset dystonia.

Rutgers Brunswick
$244,170
Chicago, Illinois
Two-year grant to describe patterns of prescribing antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes in five states, using MDS, OSCAR and Medicare Claims data.

The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
$94,753
Athens, Georgia
Three-year grant to complete a longitudinal implementation evaluation of the ElderSpirit community, the first elder co-housing experiment in the country.

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