Cover: RAND/Hartford Initiative to Build Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research Centers

RAND/Hartford Initiative to Build Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research Centers

Published In: Health Affairs, v. 26, no. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2007, p. 279-283

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2007

by Harold Alan Pincus, Donna J. Keyser, Dana Schultz

A RAND/John A. Hartford Foundation initiative, Building Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research Centers, seeks to promote such research through developing innovative clinical and health services interventions. Interdisciplinary education, mentoring, and training opportunities, particularly for junior investigators, are the critical components necessary to foster multiprofessional research endeavors.

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