Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Creative Aging Field Loses One of Its Key Leaders: In Memory of Gene D. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.

[10 November 2009 - National Center for Creative Aging] Last Saturday night, we lost one of our key leaders in the field of creative aging – more so our very dear friend. NCCA was blessed to have been closely associated with Dr. Cohen not only as one of the founding members of the Board of Directors but as our faculty host at George Washington University, where both NCCA and his Center on Aging, Health and Humanities are housed within the Health Sciences Department. NCCA came into this partnership to bring Dr. Cohen’s and other outstanding researchers work into practice. It has been a great honor to work closely with Dr. Cohen and his brilliant work. On the behalf of the National Center for Creative Aging, we look forward to building upon Dr. Cohen’s legacy with you to move the paradigm of aging from problem to potential. In association with the Gerontological Society of America, where Dr. Cohen served as President in1997, NCCA will announce next week the formation of the Gene D. Cohen Research Award in Creative Aging at the GSA Annual conference in Atlanta . We will be releasing further details as plans progress and ask for your support in continuing Dr. Cohen’s research through promoting this award opportunity and other tributes that will be developing within our field in honor of him. We have included the family’s obituary and a photograph for your further information and distribution. Gene touched so many lives and leaves us with such a rich legacy on which to continue his work to improve the quality of life for older people. Our thoughts and prayers are with Dr. Cohen’s family. We are also working with George Washington University as caretakers for the Center for Aging, Health and Humanities which will continue in a robust form to advance Dr. Cohen’s scholarship. With sympathy, Gay Hanna, Executive Director, National Center for Creative Aging - More

1 comment:

  1. Hello Steven,

    Always sorry to hear of losses to learned communities. I only learned of the work of Alex Osborn on brainstorming hence my arrival here.

    Noting your focus the following health and social care model introduced through a website and blog -

    http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/

    - may be of interest to people working in learning disabilities care and their families? The blog lists a bibliography.

    Originally created in the UK by Brian E Hodges (Ret.) at Manchester Metropolitan University -

    Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]

    http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/

    - can help map health, social care and OTHER issues, problems and solutions. The model takes a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains:

    * Interpersonal;
    * Sociological;
    * Empirical;
    * Political.

    Our links pages cover each care (knowledge) domain e.g.
    INTRAPERSONAL:

    http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links.htm

    - inc. 'creativity, ideas'....

    SCIENCES:

    http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksTwo.htm

    inc. 'visualization', 'diagrams'...

    I can f/w more information if needed.

    Best regards,

    Peter Jones
    RMN, RGN, CPN(Cert), PGCE, PG(Dip) COPE, BA (Hons.).
    Community Mental Health Nurse for Older Adults,
    Independent Scholar and Informatics Specialist
    Lancashire
    UK
    --
    h2cm: help 2C more - help 2 listen - help 2 care
    http://twitter.com/h2cm

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