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Message From The Director
As our world grows increasingly interconnected and international, Scripps and Miami University’s Department of Sociology and Gerontology are pleased to have launched a joint master’s degree program in population and social gerontology with our global neighbors at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. The first four students in the two-year program arrived at Miami to commence course work in August, and they will spend their second year at Mahidol, renowned for its international student population and its work in demography. In line with these global aspirations, Scripps and Miami’s Department of Sociology and Gerontology welcomed 13 new students to their largest and most diverse group of post-graduates ever: 43 students representing 10 countries from four continents. Twenty-six are doctoral students; 13 are master’s candidates; and, as noted above, four are in the joint master’s degree program. This eclectic, complementary blend of students is doing much to expand and enrich the educational and personal experience in gerontology here at Miami, and we look forward to continuing to educate a diverse group of scholars in the years to come. As with academics (and as you will see in more detail on page 4 of this report), Scripps continues to focus on a wide array of research funded by local, state and national entities, managing 21 external grants in the past year. Foremost in this regard has been our 2010 work with the U.S. Administration on Aging in advance of the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act. Toward this endeavor, Scripps facilitated three regional listening forums (Dallas, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco), recording and summarizing input from across the country to ensure that the impending reauthorization represents the interests and concern of all 50 states as well as Native American Tribal (Title VI) Organizations. In Ohio, we entered our 21st year of work on the Ohio Long-Term Care Research Project, providing the Ohio General Assembly and the Ohio Department of Aging with population (and disability) projections and other valuable information regarding older Ohioans and their needs and preferences regarding aging services. Additionally, we served as a key member of the Governor’s Task Force on a Unified Budget for Long-Term Care, helping to predict and control state Medicaid expenditures in the presence of a rapidly growing older population. And, we continue to serve as the research member on the Governor’s Consumer Guide Advisory Council. Closer to home, our Opening Minds Through Art (OMA) program is blossoming in several southwestern Ohio care facilities, gaining in reputation as a cutting-edge visual arts activity offering those with dementia and other cognitive impairments enjoyable group opportunities for creative self-expression and personal satisfaction. All of the above is a good indication that while the older population of this state, nation and abroad continues to grow and evolve, so, too, does the Scripps Gerontology Center continue to expand and advance to monitor and meet that population’s changing needs, concerns and preferences - in Oxford, in Ohio, throughout the United States and, more so with each passing year, across the wider world around us.
Suzanne Kunkel
Director, Scripps Gerontology Center
Our Mission
is to do work that makes a difference in the lives of aging individuals, their families and communities, and to meet the needs of aging societies. We accomplish this mission through research, education, and service.
We Value
Intellectual Curiosity and Rigor Integrity Teamwork and Collaboration Respect for all People Productivity
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Investigate Research
State Representative Tim Derickson and Suzanne Kunkel
The Scripps Gerontology Center began as a research institute, and research remains a central enterprise. Each year, Scripps turns out dozens of studies, reports and articles on the older population, its rapid growth, and related policies and services. Staff members have also authored a number of influential textbooks (e.g., Aging, Society and the Life Course; and The Realities of Aging) used in teaching gerontology at universities throughout the United States. In 2010, the Scripps Gerontology Center was awarded $1,048,007 million in external research grants. Major 2010 grant projects include: Aging Network Business Practice, Planning and Program Development: This grant, from the U.S. Administration on Aging to the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, subcontracts with Scripps to conduct and analyze surveys measuring the ability of America’s 629 Area Agencies on Aging and 243 Native American (Title VI) organizations to provide long-term services and supports to a growing older population.
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Ohio Long-Term Care Research Project: Population projections and studies of disability rates and service utilization of Ohio’s increasing older population continue to be mainstays of Scripps research. Through this project, authorized by the Ohio General Assembly, Scripps provides state legislators and
OMA Artists and Art
government administrators with information regarding demographics, nursing home occupancy rates and the cost of institutional care compared with in-home and community services for Ohio’s older population. In 2010, the Ohio General Assembly approved funding (via the Ohio Board of Regents) for the 21st consecutive year. Proposal to Provide Data to Improve Ohio’s Long-Term Services and Supports System: Funded by the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services (which oversees Medicaid allocations in Ohio), this grant charges Scripps, while working with several other state agencies, with projecting and consolidating information on older Ohioans and other persons in the state in need of Medicaid long-term services and supports for health and income-related reasons. The project also entails cost estimates for institutional as well as home- and community-based care for Ohioans. 2010 Ohio Department of Aging Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey: This biennial contract (which alternates yearly with Resident Satisfaction Surveys) involves the processing and analysis of some 30,000 surveys to families of residents in Ohio’s 971 nursing homes. Results are posted on Ohio’s Long-Term Care Consumer Guide website, www.ltcohio.org. Opening Minds Through Art (OMA): A Visual Arts Program for People with Dementia: Cedar Village Continuing Care Retirement Center – OMA artists and trained volunteers conduct a visual arts program for residents in the health care facility at Cedar Village in Mason, Ohio. 4
Budget
The Scripps Gerontology Center operated with an overall budget of $1,504,148 in 2010, thanks largely to almost $1.05 million in external research grant funds.* As seen in Table 1, those research grant dollars added up to nearly 70 percent of the Scripps 2010 budget, with Miami University support ($412,939, 27.45%) and the Scripps endowment ($43,202, 2.87%) constituting the remainder.
Table 1
Scripps Operating Budget Fiscal Year 2010
27.45% External Support Core University Support
69.67%
Endowment
2.87%
($1,504,148)
* External support refers to money coming into Scripps through outside contracts and grant awards from both public and private entities, such as the U.S. Administration on Aging, the National Institutes of Health, the state of Ohio, and the Council on Aging from Southwestern Ohio and Cedar Village, etc. 5
External Funding Table 2 100%
Proportion of Budget Coming from External Sources
80% 81.41%
60%
66.15%
76.56% 69.67%
71.19% 65.16% 58.43%
40%
20%
FY04 ($709,771)
FY05 ($534,090)
FY06 ($715,654)
FY07 ($1,785,422)
FY08 ($1,065,879)
FY09 ($1,492,611)
FY10 ($1,048,007)
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Communicate SCRIPPS The History of the Scripps Gerontology Center
A Legacy of Leadership
Emergency Readiness Enriching Now with Then: Connecting Nursing Home Residents and Staff Through Oral History
and Response
Area Agencies on Aging Survey
Publications
June 2009
The Scripps Gerontology Center has long been renowned for its prolific publications and reports on an array of topics related to aging – from population projections to racial distributions of diabetes, from caregiving to consumer direction. Below is a sample of Scripps work published in books and professional journals in the year 2010. “The Association Between Heart Disease Mortality and Geographic Access to Hospitals: County Level Comparison in Ohio.” pgs.1211-1218, Social Science and Medicine, April 2010, 70 (8): Yamashita, T., and Kunkel, S. “A World Apart? Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Applied Gerontology.” pgs. 284-293, The Gerontologist, June 2010, 50 (3): Applebaum, R., Hendricks, J., and Kunkel, S. “The Role of the Aging Services Network in Rebalancing and Transforming the Long-Term Care System.” pgs. 16-21, Public Policy and Aging Report, Winter/Spring 2010, 20 (1), Kunkel, S., and Lackmeyer, A. “Can Elephants Learn to Dance? Ohio’s Efforts to Create a Balanced System of Long-Term Services and Support.” pgs.38-42, Policy and Aging Report, (2010) 20 (1), Applebaum, R., Mehdizadeh, S., and Kunkel, S. “Consumers and Long-Term Care: Tensions in U.S. Policies and Practices.” In Kruse (Ed.), Lebensqualitat Bei Demenz (Quality of Life and Dementia) (2010). Heidelberg: Akademische Verlagsgesellschlich AKA Verlag. Kunkel, S., and Applebaum, R.
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“Access to Health Care: Elderly.” Encyclopedia of Family Health (2010) Sage Publishing (Sage Journals Online). Ewen, H.H. “Family Involvement in Long-Term Care.” Encyclopedia of Family Health. (2010) Sage Publishing (Sage Journals Online). Nikzad-Turhune, K., Ewen H.H., and Gaugler, J.E. “Silver Alerts and the Problem of Missing Adults with Dementia.” pgs. 149-157, The Gerontologist (2010) 50(2),. Carr, D. C., Muschert, G. W., Kinney, J. M., Robbins, E. J., Petonito, G., Manning, L., and Brown, J. S. “What’s All This About Evidence Based Practice? The Roots, the Controversies, and Why It Matters.” pgs. 6-13, Generations (2010), Vol. 34, Number 1, Rahman, A., and Applebaum R. “Gender, Work-Family Responsibilities, and Sleep.” pgs. 746-768, Gender & Society (2010) 24. Maume, D.J., Sebastian, R.A., and Bardo, A.R. “Distance Learning: A Strategy for Improving Incontinence Care in Nursing Homes.” pgs 121-132, The Gerontologist, (2010) 50(1), 121-132. Rahman, A. N., Schnelle, J. F., Yamashita, T., Patry, G., and Prasauskas, R.
Scripps Reports
“A Quality Plan for Indiana.” (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. Applebaum, R., Kunkel, S., and Nelson, I. M. “Distance Learning: Improving the Quality of Nursing Home Care.” Final Report to the Retirement Research Foundation (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. Rahman, A, and Applebaum, R. “A Look to a New Model of Care Delivery for an Aging Society.” (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. McGrew, K., Applebaum R., and Straker, J. K. “Disability in Ohio: Managing the Projected Need for Long-Term Services and Supports.” (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. Mehdizadeh, S. “AAA Workforce Survey Results.” (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. Straker, J.K., Lackmeyer, A., and Kunkel, S. “2009 Title VI Survey Results.” (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. Lackmeyer, A., McGrew, K.B., Straker, J.K., and Kunkel, S. “AAA Caregiving Survey Results.” (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. Straker, J.K., Lackmeyer, A., Kunkel, S., and Robbins, E. “Enriching Now with Then: Connecting Nursing Home Residents and Staff Through Oral History.” (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. Payne, M. “The Knolls of Oxford–Miami University Affiliation Volume 2: Making Progress for Today and Tomorrow – Past Success and Future Promise.” (2010). Miami University Partnership Office. Payne, M. “The History of the Scripps Gerontology Center: A Legacy of Leadership.” (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. Payne M., and Hanna, E.J. “Summary Report of Public Input for Older Americans Act Reauthorization.” (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. Kunkel, S., Lackmeyer, A., and Ciferri, W. “Indiana Quality Plan for Consumer-directed Services.” (2010). Scripps Gerontology Center. Applebaum, R., Nelson, I. M., and Kunkel, S. 8
Educate Education Miami
University is among only 10 universities, worldwide to offer degrees in gerontology at all three college levels: undergraduate, master’s, and PhD. Scripps provides administrative support to these programs which are all supported and enhanced by the activities of Scripps. Undergraduate: Miami University’s Department of Sociology and Gerontology offers an undergraduate major in gerontology, as well as minors in gerontology, aging and health, and aging and public policy. Graduates are empowered with the understanding of the impact of aging in all areas of life and work. Left to right: Kim Linde, Megan Imka, Elizabeth Carpio, Phillip Sauer, Lauren Mindemann, Rebecca Hart
Master’s: The Master of Gerontological Studies (MGS) program, initiated in 1977 is widely known for being one of the first and best of its kind in this country. The curriculum provides a comprehensive view of gerontology while allowing students to self-style their studies around a core of classes emphasizing the social aspects of aging, research, and program management. All students perform fieldwork in aging-related organizations across the country (and sometimes around the world) to gain hands-on experience and apply it to their classroom learning. In 2010, Scripps helped to launch Miami University’s new Master of Population and Social Gerontology (MPSG), a joint-degree with Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. Students, complete their first year of coursework at Miami and a second year of study at Mahidol, benefiting from the comparison and contrast of gerontology and demography in two very different parts of the world. PhD: Initiated in 2005, Miami’s PhD in Social Gerontology is the first such doctoral program in Ohio – and among the first nationwide. The program reached its highest enrollment in 2010, with 26 full or part-time doctoral students. The doctoral program prepares students from a range of behavioral and social sciences to meet the challenges, demands, and opportunities presented by global aging. Graduates of the doctoral program are prepared to teach and/or conduct research in institutions of higher education, and/or hold positions in policy or service organizations. 9
Presentations
Faculty and staff from Miami’s Department of Sociology and Gerontology and Scripps participated in 82 scholarly presentations of their research at professional conferences and other venues in Oxford, across the country and overseas in 2010. Presentations of special note included: “Innovative Approaches to Gerontological Education: Lessons Learned Inside and Outside the Classroom” and “The Role of National Leadership in Supporting the Transformation of the Long-Term Care System” at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in New Orleans, La.
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Public Service, Affiliations and Outreach
The Scripps Gerontology Center has a long history of public service, dating back to its work with the U.S. Bureau of the Census in the 1920s and ‘30s. Public service remains an integral part of the center’s activities. In 2010, various gerontology faculty members and Scripps researchers served as members (and former office holders) of such noted organizations as the American Society on Aging; American Sociological Association; the American Psychological Association; the Gerontological Society of America; the National Center for Creative Aging; the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education; the Ohio Association of Gerontology in Education; and AARP. Gerontology faculty members and Scripps’ researchers also served on several editorial boards, reviewing manuscripts for publications including the American Statistical Association; American Sociological Association; The Gerontologist; Journal of Applied Gerontology; Generations; the International Journal of Behavioral Development; the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population; the Journal of Case Management; the Journal of Health and Aging; the National Institutes of Health Research Infrastructure for Minority Institutions; and Social Science and Medicine. Additionally, a Miami faculty member and Scripps fellow served for the second consecutive year on the Ohio Governor’s Task Force on a Unified Budget for Long-Term Care and provided testimony on four separate occasions to the Ohio House and Senate’s finance committees.
Partnerships, Public Service
Along with its many affiliations, consultations and continuing public service to state, national and international government officials and policy makers, Scripps also assumes a vital role in valuable partnerships in the Miami and Oxford community. Foremost, Scripps plays a leading part in the Miami University/Knolls of Oxford affiliation, a mutually beneficial alliance (formalized in 2005). The Knolls of Oxford Retirement Community provides an easily accessible, excellent site for research, internships, and other educational experiences, especially those related to gerontology. In 2010, Scripps was instrumental in the publication of “The Knolls of Oxford–Miami University Affiliation Volume 2: Making Progress for Today and Tomorrow – Past Success and Future Promise,” documenting the many components and successes of the affiliation. Several gerontology students have performed nursing home administrator-in-training residencies under Knolls CEO Tim McGowan, and the Knolls served as the initial site for the popular Opening Minds Through Art (OMA) program, a visual arts activity for those with dementia-related impairments. Also, several Miami students volunteer at the Knolls with Timeslips, a creative group storytelling initiative developed by noted author Anne Bastings. Scripps and Miami faculty members and fellows are also known for volunteering locally in various other capacities including service on the boards of the Oxford Senior Center, the Butler County Elderly Services Program, the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Cincinnati, the Dayton Widow’s Home, the executive council of the Ohio AARP; Association for Professionals in Aging; and the Oxford Family Resource Center. Scripps staff also donate their time to Miami’s Institute for Learning in Retirement, and Oxford’s home-delivered meals program. 11
Lectures
Scripps complements educational experiences in the classroom with a variety of lectures and informal brown-bag presentations open to the public at large. These sessions feature special guests who share a wealth of aging-related knowledge from all over the country and, sometimes, across the seas. Topics in 2010 ranged from nursing home diversion to the therapeutic benefits of oral history. Two of the more prestigious lectures hosted by Scripps, presented annually are: Pascal K. Whelpton Lecture in Family Demography (presented by scholars showing innovation and scholarship in contributing to a better understanding of society via a better idea of its demographic distributions). On April 8 Princeton University Professor Scott Lynch delivered the 2010 Whelpton lecture on “Black-White Differences in Health and Mortality Since the Civil Rights Movement: the Role of Socio-economic Status,” observing that “tremendous racial disparities in health and mortality continue in our country,” with African-Americans living, on average, close to seven years less than Caucasians. W. Fred Cottrell Distinguished Alumni Lecture (presented by a Miami graduate displaying exceptional creativity, scholarship and leadership in the field of aging). Dan O’Connor, a 1984 Miami MGS graduate and president of the Ohio Presbyterian Retirement Services Communities, gave the 2010 Cottrell lecture on Nov. 30. His lecture, “Leading the Retirement Communities of Tomorrow Through the Turbulent Times of Today,” emphasized that retirement centers today must readily adapt to culture change and evolving consumer preferences to stay afloat in an increasingly tight U. S. market. 12
Special Events
Along with lectures and brown-bag presentations, a perennially popular outreach event is Scripps Green Tea Day, which also features Miami University’s Grandparents of the Year awards ceremony. Green Tea Day – which highlights healthy aging, longevity and global aging – is an annual event that Scripps holds on the Miami campus to acquaint the rest of the university and Oxford community with the center and the field of gerontology. The March 31, 2010, day-long celebration included free health screenings, free massages, therapy dog demonstrations, information on life expectancy and aging services in various countries around the world, and, of course, the special Japanese Tea ceremony.
Grandparents of the Year are: The annual Miami University Grandparents of the Year ceremony, hosted by the Scripps Gerontolgy Center, honors selected grandparents who have had a profound impact on the lives of their grandchildren. Miami University students nominate grandparents in the following categories: grandmother, grandfather, grandparents as a couple, and honoray grandparent. The 2010 honorees are: 1. Honorary Grandparent of the Year: Sam Schillaci 2. Grandfather of the Year: Peter Moran 3. Grandmother of the Year: Adele Roewer 4. Grandparents of the Year: Anthony and Jennie Natale
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Donors 2010
Scott Brown, Scott Lynch, the Whelptons, and Suzanne Kunkel
Scripps has seven different categories that our donors may wish to fund. They are:
Scripps Alumni Account Scripps Enrichment Fund Scripps Gerontology Center E.W. Scripps Fund P.K. Whelpton Distinguished Lecture Series W. Fred Cottrell Distinguished Lecture Series Opening Minds through Art (OMA) 14
Donations to those seven funds totaled $96,180 in the year 2010. Our generous and much appreciated donors are: Linda Barrett Elaine Bergman Sarah Blumenthal David Brown Ron and Jennifer Bulanda Mary Burr William Ciferri Colonial (Senior Services) Bob Cottrell Nancy Sohngen Cottrell William Cottrell Michael Ego Franklin Foundation Inc. Matthew Frericks Robert Graham Lisa Grant Hamilton Community Foundation Elizabeth and Jeff Hanna Sally Henderson
Cheryl Johnson Jennifer Kinney Suzanne Kunkel Saundra Leubner Maple Knoll Communities Susan McGeehan MetLife Investors Janis Montague Ian Nelson Oxford Senior Citizens Inc. Julia Paladino-Kaminski Michael Payne James Peacock Mihaela Popa Jane Straker TriHealth Seniors Link Kathryn Watson Ken Wilson
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