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WWW.T OUROL AW.E DU 33 to do almost anything that brings the several faculties and their students together around projects that have significant resonance for all of them. Thus two concrete initiatives were planned during the Spring semester of 2014. One of them was completed the other is well underway at the time of this writing. Both have extensive involvement of the faculties of the law school and of the health science campuses. The other of the two events took place at the Law Center campus on June 20. It was an invitational conference titled Aging in Place. Its focus was the challenges to health policy created by the aging of America and particularly by the aging of the populations of New York in general and of Long Island in particular. That demographic trend is of central importance to the world of health law and healthcare policy. One of the most insistent problems in health care policy is the seemingly uncontrollable cost curve the growth in health-related expenditures that has made the United States an outlier alone on the planet in the portion of its total GDP devoted to health and that by a factor of almost twice the runner-up Norway and far more than the developed-country mean. A prime contributor to the future of the cost curve is this one demographic change. In 2004 there were 36 million people in America over the age of 65. In 2030 it is estimated to be double that to 72 million about one person in every five. At the same time the pressure to bend the cost curve was one of the most potent forces second only to the plight of the uninsured behind the push for healthcare reform. Older people are simultaneously among the most expensive parts of the problem and of necessity a focal point for cost reduction. At the same time the cohort of the aging is in general the group with the most chronic and complex needs. Thus we have entered an era in which we will simultaneously have less but will need to do more. Aging in Place is a moniker for one set of possible solutions initiatives that may alter the institution-centric acute-care centric clinical care-dominant character of much of American health care. Addressing the problem will ineluctably create legal issues from the world of legislative policy to the implementation of new rules of entitlement. Few topics in health law and policy could be more timely. And few topics could better be a common ground for inter-disciplinary and inter-campus initiatives at Touro. Centers of excellence in aging services to the aging legal problems of the aging and health care problems of the aging are already well in place. Creating the Conference built an institutional framework for bringing them together and for creating both institutional and personal relationships across the Universitys faculties. The Aging in Place initiative was by every measure a success due largely to the efforts of the Law Centers Administrative staff and those of Bob Abrams Robert Canon and Joan Foley at the Law Center and to Deborah Viola at the Medical School and Andrew Siegal at the School of Health Sciences. It garnered the support of the New York AARP and the participation of the Alzheimers Foundation of America of the New York Office for Aging the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island and forty participants from government from the for-profit healthcare sector and the non-profit sector. The same group will meet a second time to apply what they shared during the first event to the development of concrete projects and initiatives legal medical and social for application to the challenges of Aging in Place in New York and by example perhaps beyond. Woody Allen is credited with the observation that Time is natures way of keeping everything from happening at once. The evolution of health law studies at Touro is and will be a careful deliberate process unfolding over time initiatives and enhancements built on existing strengths and shaped by the needs of the public of the profession and of Touros present and future students. Steven Jay Gould speaking from a genre rather different from Woody Allens - is famous for the hypothesis that evolution occurs through punctuated equilibriums rather than being either continuously rapid or smoothly continuous. Both metaphors fit the Spring 2014 Gitenstein Semester. Following Gould what a great punctuation mark the Gitenstein Foundation has made And what a privilege it was to have been there at the time.