Category: CADER

New Funding for BUSSW’s CADER Expands Behavioral Health and Aging Training for Senior Centers in Three States

Professor Bronwyn Keefe from Boston University School of Social Work’s (BUSSW) Center for Aging & Disability Education & Research (CADER) expands training and evaluation initiatives across the country with new funding from The Retirement Research Foundation (RRF).  The latest grant focuses on workforce training for senior center staff in Wisconsin, enabling CADER to expand its […]

CADER’s Keefe Offers Expertise on Resources for Older Adults’ Behavioral Health

The Boston Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) will bring together local aging, behavioral health, and homeless services providers for a meeting to address behavioral health among older adults in Boston. Bronwyn Keefe from BUSSW’s Center for Aging & Disability Education & Research (CADER) will join experts from over a dozen organizations to discuss resources […]

CADER Receives Grant Renewal to Confront ‘Single Largest Unaddressed Public Health Threat in the 21st Century’

The Center for Aging and Disability Education and Research (CADER) at BUSSW will use grant funding to train providers across Massachusetts who work with individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia. Following significant positive results from their first training of healthcare workers across Massachusetts that concluded in June 2018, BUSSW’s CADER has received a […]

CADER Joins Leading Eldercare Alliance to Prevent Workforce Crisis in Aging America

BUSSW’s Center for Aging & Disability Education & Research (CADER), known for bringing online training and certificate programs to over 20,000 eldercare professionals since 2002, will join the Eldercare Workforce Alliance, created in response to a report by The Institute of Medicine predicting an impending workforce crisis spurred by America’s aging population, which will nearly […]