{"id":58242,"date":"2016-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-gerontology-professor-phillip-clark-honored-by-leadingage-ri-for-advocacy-work-for-older-adults\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T00:00:00","slug":"uri-gerontology-professor-phillip-clark-honored-by-leadingage-ri-for-advocacy-work-for-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/uri-gerontology-professor-phillip-clark-honored-by-leadingage-ri-for-advocacy-work-for-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 gerontology professor Phillip Clark honored by LeadingAge RI for advocacy work for older adults"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I., April 8, 2016\u2014Phillip G. Clark, a 溏心vlog免费B站 gerontology professor, has been honored with the \u201cMaking a Difference Award\u201d from LeadingAge RI.<\/p>\n


\nClark was recognized for his work promoting quality care for Rhode Island\u2019s older population and advocating for educational opportunities and training for the people who take care of older adults. He received the award at the nonprofit\u2019s annual conference in Warwick. <\/p>\n


\nClark is director of the Rhode Island Geriatric Center and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Program in Gerontology, and he is also a professor in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Human Development and Family Studies program. <\/p>\n


\nLast year, Clark, of West Kingston, and his colleagues were awarded a federal grant to implement a health care program for older adults through the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program.<\/p>\n


\nThe purpose of the grant is to provide professional training opportunities to enhance the knowledge and skills of people who take care of older adults.<\/p>\n


\n \t\u201cBy dedicating his scholarly career to the field of gerontology, Professor Clark has improved the quality of life for seniors in our state through innovative programming and research,\u201d says Jim Nyberg, director of LeadingAge RI. \u201cAnd by securing funding to help advance caregivers\u2019 skills and education, he will leave his mark on generations of Rhode Islanders to come. His leadership and commitment to ensuring quality of life for people of all ages is inspiring.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tThe award comes as 溏心vlog免费B站 moves ahead with its newly created Academic Health Collaborative, an initiative to spark cooperation and innovation in the areas of research, interprofessional education, population health, health promotion, and recognition and elimination of health disparities. Clark has been a leader in interprofessional education and will continue that work with the Collaborative.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI\u2019m honored to receive this,\u201d says Clark. \u201cI accept it on behalf of the many colleagues with whom I have collaborated over the years in our united efforts to improve the geriatrics knowledge and skills of health and human service providers. This is an example of the kind of interprofessional and community collaboration that the new Academic Health Collaborative is intended to promote.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nLeadingAge RI, based in Providence, was founded in 1989 and represents long-term care providers in Rhode Island, including nonprofit nursing homes, assisted living facilities and senior housing providers, as well as adult day health centers. The organization\u2019s mission is to expand the world of possibilities for aging by fostering innovation, collaboration and ethical leadership; advocating for sound public policy; providing education, collaboration and professional development; valuing older people and their right to make choices; and promoting services. <\/p>\n


\nPictured above: Phillip Clark, director of the Rhode Island Geriatric Center and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Program in Gerontology.

\nPhoto courtesy of Phillip Clark.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I., April 8, 2016\u2014Phillip G. Clark, a 溏心vlog免费B站 gerontology professor, has been honored with the \u201cMaking a Difference Award\u201d from LeadingAge RI. Clark was recognized for his work promoting quality care for Rhode Island\u2019s older population and advocating for educational opportunities and training for the people who take care of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}