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AGS Foundation For Health In Aging Lifetime Of Caring Gala To Benefit Foundation

WHAT: The AGS Foundation for Health in Aging's Ninth Annual Lifetime of Caring Gala. The Gala supports the FHA's vital work -- advocating for older adults and their special healthcare needs; supporting elder health research; and providing public education programs for older people and their caregivers.

WHEN: January 28, 2009

WHO: The FHA's 2008 Lifetime of Caring Award will be presented to Robert Butler, MD, President and CEO of the International Longevity Center, who has dedicated his life and work to the health of the aging. Dr. Butler is the founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, as well as the nation's first department of geriatrics, at Mount Sinai School in New York City. He was the principal investigator of one of the first interdisciplinary, comprehensive, longitudinal studies of healthy, community-living older adults, a landmark study finding that many things attributed to old age are in fact a function of disease and socioeconomic and other factors. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark Why Survive? Aging in America, has co-authored several other books on aging and health, and more than 300 medical and scientific articles. The Lifetime of Caring Award recognizes significant contributions to the care and well-being of older adults, and individuals whose life and work are testimony to the potential for extraordinary creativity, accomplishment and validity throughout life.

The FHA's Impact Award will be presented to Evercare for its role as a leader in geriatric healthcare and for its significant contributions to improving the health of older persons and enhancing their quality of life. Among other things, Evercare's pioneering Care Model provides highly individualized care for nursing home residents and community-dwelling older adults who have special needs due to chronic illness or disability. Evercare's advocacy efforts on behalf of preventive care and a culture of care that values older persons are an inspiration. Evercare Chairman John Mach, MD, will accept the Impact Award, which recognizes organizations that have helped empower older adults and caregivers and support successful aging.

WHERE: The Plaza, Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, New York City

HOW: For further information, including information on purchasing tickets or tables at the FHA's Ninth Annual Lifetime of Caring Gala, please contact Li-Chia Ong at the FHA by email at LOng@americangeriatrics.org or by telephone at (212) 308-1414.