ALBANY, New York – The New York State Dental Foundation will receive a $40,000 grant to help improve older adults’ access to oral health care through a fund set up by GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK) and the American Dental Association Foundation. GSK Consumer Healthcare donated $250,000 last year to the ADAF to establish the Access to Oral Health Care for Older Adults Initiative.

With the grant money, the New York State Dental Foundation will develop resource binders on the importance of oral health and the particular problems older adults have in maintaining it, and will conduct a statewide conference to bring like-minded organizations, agencies and individuals together to address the disparities in oral healthcare among the older adult population."It’s simply unacceptable that so many Americans lack the access to oral health care that most of us enjoy," says Sydney R. Rollock, vice president of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare’s Oral Care products. "While advances in oral care have benefited the majority of society, too many of us, especially the elderly, still suffer pain and other complications needlessly and at the expense of overall health and well-being."GlaxoSmithKline is one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.

SOURCE: New York State Dental Association

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