ESCOTA Member Directory
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Letter from the ESCOTA Board Chair
November 2010Dear ESCOTA Members and Friends:
New York is a city of neighborhoods, with issues that are often particular to certain geographic areas. The East Side Council on the Aging has always sought to address the needs of older people living on the Upper East Side. At the same time, we acknowledge that the needs of the elderly extend beyond physical boundaries. As our members of diverse affiliations meet and network each month, we find collegial and innovative ways to partner to serve our elders and pool our knowledge and resources in order to deepen our services and have greater impact on the growing population of older people.
We started the year exploring pet loss, an often neglected issue facing elderly pet owners, and ended with a review of the DFTA-funded meal program and its impact on seniors in our community. We met at the Alzheimer’s Association for the latest information about an ever-more prevalent disease, and learned how strokes occur from physicians at New York Presbyterian Hospital. The full roster of programs appears on our web site, escota.info.
We are very grateful to the agencies and organizations that hosted our meetings, serving refreshments to nourish us at the end of a busy day. We welcomed professionals new to the field, including social work interns, and those seasoned by many years of work and advocacy.
Looking ahead to the coming year, we implemented a survey of the membership to help us focus on the areas that capture the membership’s interests and needs. We will be guided by your responses, and are planning programs for 2010-2011 that reflect topics that you indicated were important to your work and growth.
ESCOTA has also undertaken to examine the great challenge of transition from hospital to home.
Despite great advances in technology and digital communication, there remains, for many older people, a huge gap between discharge from a hospital or nursing home and a safe and sustained return to the community. As the result of a standing-room-only meeting at Weill Cornell (featuring Dr. Veronica LoFaso, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, New York Presbyterian Hospital), we formed a task force to identify the challenges of the frail elderly when they leave a medical setting. At preliminary meetings with key stakeholders, we learned about some approaches already in place, and more clearly defined the unmet needs that older people have after discharge.
Despite the increased demands on their time and energy, our board continues to provide excellence in programming and has developed an enhanced user-friendly and informative web site available to the public. Through their hard work and commitment to ESCOTA’s mission we are able to present you with this updated annual printed and online directory. We are grateful to you — for your suggestions and active involvement, and for your dues and contributions to ESCOTA, all of which move our mission forward.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Reeva S. Mager Chair, ESCOTA
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