[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 11, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37815-37816]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-3362]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Public Law 
92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that a meeting of the 
Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee (GGAC) will be held on 
September 19-20, 2007, in Room 930 at the VA Central Office, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. On September 19 the session will 
be from 8:30 a.m. and until 5 p.m., and on September 20 from 8 a.m. and 
until 12 noon. This meeting is open to the public.
    The purpose of the Committee is to provide advice to the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs and the Under Secretary for Health on all matters 
pertaining to geriatrics and gerontology by assessing the capability of 
VA health care facilities and programs to meet the medical, 
psychological and functional needs of older veterans and by evaluating 
VA programs designated as Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical 
Centers (GRECCs).
    The meeting will feature presentations and discussion on VA's aging 
research activities, update on VA's geriatric workforce (to include 
training, recruitment and retention approaches), VHA Primary Care and 
Geriatric Primary Care, recent VHA efforts regarding dementia and 
delirium, and performance oversight of the VA Geriatric Research, 
Education, and Clinical Centers.
    No time will be allocated at this meeting for receiving oral 
presentations from the public. Interested parties can provide written 
comments for review by the Committee not less than ten days in advance 
of the meeting to Mrs. Marcia Holt-Delaney, Office of Geriatrics and

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Extended Care (114), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. Individuals who wish to attend the 
meeting should contact Mrs. Holt-Delaney, Program Analyst, at (202) 
273-8540, at least seven days in advance of the meeting.

    Dated: July 6, 2007.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-3362 Filed 7-10-07; 8:45 am]
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