Report on the pilot of the Study to Understand and Foster the Functioning and Involvement of Contributing Elderly (SUFFICE) issued (South Africa Jul.07)
A major activity of ILC–South Africa over recent months has been finalisation of a report on a pilot of the Study to Understand and Foster the Functioning and Involvement of Contributive Elders (SUFFICE). SUFFICE is a bi-national, multi-centre project conducted by collaborators at ILC–USA (Dr Harrison Bloom), Columbia University's Stroud Center for Study of Quality of Life (Dr Barry Gurland), and ILCSA and the Institute of Ageing in Africa at the University of Cape Town (Drs Monica Ferreira and Sebastiana Kalula). The report will be available on ILCSA's website (www.ilcsa.uct.ac.za) shortly. Meanwhile, preparation of proposals to solicit funds to support a continuation phase of the project are under way, specifically: i) A health intervention to introduce innovation in service procedures and standards for older clients at public health care facilities; and ii) a generalisation survey to be conducted at an urban site and a rural site in each of three provinces.
On March 22, 2007, ILCSA's President Monica Ferreira gave the 2006/07 Harold Hatch Lecture in Geriatrics and Gerontology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New City. The topic of the lecture, posted on ILC–USA's website (www.ilcusa.org), was
"Growing Old in South Africa: Between AIDS, Baobabs and Longevity.” While in New York City, she interacted with several ILC–USA colleagues and gave a lunch seminar on "Health and Ageing in Developing Countries.” |
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Monica Ferreira
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