A focus on getting health care providers more geriatric training

COLORFUL DISCUSSION: Staff members chat with older adults during a tie-dye T-shirt activity at PACE Organization of Rhode Island’s East Providence day center. From left are PACE participant Cherry Ginel, PACE Chief of Organizational Performance Liz Boucher, certified nursing assistant Sorng Hy and PACE participant Claudette Jackson.
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO
COLORFUL DISCUSSION: Staff members chat with older adults during a tie-dye T-shirt activity at PACE Organization of Rhode Island’s East Providence day center. From left are PACE participant Cherry Ginel, PACE Chief of Organizational Performance Liz Boucher, certified nursing assistant Sorng Hy and PACE participant Claudette Jackson.
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

As the Ocean State’s aging population is expected to skyrocket in the coming years, a University of Rhode Island program providing elder care education is set to expand with the help of a federal grant. The Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center at URI recently received $5 million from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration,

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