Living Well: A Guide to Healthy Aging, A 27-Part Series Exploring Health Care Issues Relevant to Older Adults and Their Caregivers, Has Its Thirteen/WNET Premiere On November 6.NEW YORK--(BW HealthWire)--Oct. 18, 1999-- LIVING WELL: A GUIDE TO HEALTHY AGING, a 27-part series exploring health care issues relevant to adults over 50 and their caregivers, will have its Thirteen/WNET premiere on Saturday, November 6 at 6 a.m. The series continues on Thirteen/WNET New York on subsequent Saturdays at 6 a.m. through May 6, 2000. LIVING WELL: A GUIDE TO HEALTHY AGING is the only television series whose research was entirely funded by the National Institute on Aging The National Institute on Aging is a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland. Formed in 1974, NIA's mission is to improve the health and well-being of older Americans through research. It is the primary U.S. , an institute of the National Institutes of Health. Reviewed by nationally recognized experts, the half-hour programs provide comprehensive information on a wide variety of topics, including nutrition and diet; exercise and fitness; legal and financial issues; understanding Medicare, Medicaid and managed care; and communicating with health care professionals and accessing community support. The series, which aired last year on a number of other public television stations, was recently awarded the National Mature Media Award from The National Associations of the Area Agencies on Aging, and the Tibbetts Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration for developing a commercial product with social significance. LIVING WELL: A GUIDE TO HEALTHY AGING is produced by Evening Star Productions. The producer is Mari-Lynn C. Evans with research support from the National Institute on Aging SBIR SBIR Small Business Innovation Research (program/grant) SBIR Space Based Infra-Red SBIR Speaker-Boundary Interference SBIR Site Backsurface-referenced Ideal Plane/Range (silicon wafers) . The series is presented on PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, by WQED Pittsburgh and co-presented by WCET WCET Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications WCET Worst Case Execution Time Cincinnati. It is distributed by PBS Adult Learning Service (ALS Als (äls), Ger. Alsen, island, 121 sq mi (313 sq km), Sønderjylland co., S Denmark, in the Lille Bælt, separated from the mainland by the narrow Alensund. ). LIVING WELL: A GUIDE TO HEALTHY AGING is underwritten by the Health Care Financing Administration Health Care Financing Administration, n.pr department in the U.S. agency of Health and Human Services responsible for the oversight of the Medicaid and Medicare benefit programs, including guidelines, payment, and coverage policies. ; the Department of Health & Human Services, USA; and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) is a not-for-profit public charity based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that supports healthcare services, education, and research to encourage medical advancement and protect vulnerable populations. of Pittsburgh. Thirteen/WNET New York is one of the key program providers for public television, bringing such acclaimed series as Nature, Great Performances, American Masters and Charlie Rose - as well as the work of Bill Moyers - to audiences nationwide. As the flagship public broadcaster in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut metro area, Thirteen reaches millions of viewers each week - airing the best of American public television American Public Television (APT) is the largest of the television syndication distributors of programming for public television stations in the United States. It began in 1961 as the Eastern Educational Television Network along with its own local productions such as City Arts, City Life and Reel New York. With educational and community outreach projects that enhance the value of its productions, Thirteen takes television "out of the box." And as broadcast and digital media converge, Thirteen is blazing trails in the creation of Web sites, CD-ROMs, educational software, and other cutting-edge media products. More information about Thirteen can be found at: www.thirteen.org. |
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