A teaching nursing home: ten years of partnership between the Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

The JHHA is moving forward into new areas of pursuit within long-term care, including studies of the pneumonia vaccine; the cause of Alzheimer's disease; the difference between the brain of the Alzheimer's patient and the normal aging brain; new patterns and approaches in pharmacy and pharmacology; and the new nursing home of the 21st century in a changing health care environment. Students and graduate physicians will continue to strengthen their clinical identity by virtue of this exposure, and those of all ages will benefit from the research and advances in patient care coming out of this program.