The Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society is conducting community lectures on the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit. We are excited about this new initiative and the lectures have been met with an enthusiastic response.
Denys Lau, PhD, recently authored an article on the update to Medicare Part D. It can be found here.
Four lectures were given at the Fourth Presbyterian Church and two at Holy Name Cathedral. In total, over 150 individuals attended the lectures and they eager to learn more about the Buehler Center. We plan to not only continue the lecture series, but to expand into new topics such as caregiver stress and advance care planning.

“Mom has never been the same since her surgery:
Postoperative cognitive decline in the elderly”

The 14th Annual James E. & Bonnie L. Eckenhoff Lecture and John & Gwen Smart Symposium will take place on Wednesday, October 28th, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The symposium will begin at 3 pm and the lecture will follow at 4 pm.

The John & Gwen Smart Symposium, which precedes the lecture, will serve to showcase a variety of aging-related research and education projects underway in the Northwestern community. If you would like to present a poster, please notify us via email at buehler-center@northwestern.edu. Please submit your poster to the Buehler Center as soon as possible. Upon acceptance, final posters should be submitted no later than October 16th, 2009 .

The speaker will be Roderic G. Eckenhoff, MD. Dr. Eckenhoff is the vice chair for research and the Austin Lamont Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The title of his lecture is “Mom has never been the same since her surgery: Postoperative cognitive decline in the elderly.”

The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act has established new insurance coverage for prescription drugs. The plan is called Medicare Part D. Coverage began on January 1, 2006.
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