National Bureau of Economic Research
NBER: Fwd: New RFA on Elder Mistreatment

Subject: Fwd: New RFA on Elder Mistreatment
From: Janet Stein (jbstein@nber.org)
Date: Thu Mar 31 2005 - 11:53:05 EST


>Here is a call for proposals from NIA that may be of interest. Richard
>Suzman was keen for us to spread the word; NIA's summary and the link to
>the complete guidelines are below.
>Let me know if you have any questions, or would like to know more about
>submitting a proposal to NIA.

Janet Stein
Program Administrator
NBER Program on Aging

>Below is the URL to NIA's recently released Request for Applications for
>research on elder mistreatment. The RFA resulted directly from the NAS
>Panel's volume Elder Mistreatment. Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an
>Aging America.
>
>NIA is especially interested in attracting researchers from related areas
>to begin thinking about the area of elder mistreatment. To this end, we
>have been able to assemble a minimum of $1,700,000 per year to fund this
>effort. Please read it over and do consider applying for funding on this
>topic. If you know others who might be interested, I would appreciate
>your forwarding the RFA to them.
>
><http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-05-009.html>http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-05-009.html
>

Janet Stein
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