News Release

Prizes Awarded to Best Presentations at The Aging Exchange

February 3, 2004

Six graduate students and postdoctoral fellows were awarded prizes for their outstanding presentations at The Aging Exchange: Education, Research and Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This half-day event, sponsored by the Institute on Aging, in collaboration with several partners at UNC, was held on January 20, 2004.

Approximately 140 campus and community people were in attendance as the students and fellows presented their work. Seven students were selected to give verbal presentations, and 18 students gave poster presentations.

The winners, each of whom will receive a $75 prize, are:

• Stewart Bond, School of Nursing and Certificate in Aging Program, for his paper, "Delirium resolution in hospitalized older cancer patients"
• Paula Goodwin, post-doctoral fellow in the CPHAR program, for her poster, "Predictors of depressive symptoms among African American female caregivers: The role of resources"
• Erik Kouba and his poster partners, Susan Herndon, Tara Norbut, and Adi Shimoni, who together represent the School of Medicine, the School of Pharmacy and the Division of Occupational Science in the School of Medicine, for their poster, "Public awareness of issues surrounding older adult drivers: An interdisciplinary team approach"
• Lawrence Layton, School of Social Work, for his poster, "Charles Bonnet syndrome: A case study"
• Peter Reed, CPHAR Program and Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, for his paper presentation, "Food and fluid consumption among long-term care residents with dementia"
• Andrea Willson, Post-doctoral fellow in the training program of the Carolina Population Center, for her poster, "Women's income security in later life: Trajectories over the life course"

The Aging Exchange also included a tribute to Dr. Elizabeth Mutran, a Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Mutran, presentation of the Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development In Aging Research Awards, an exhibit of aging programs from across the campus, and an evening reception.

Co-sponsors of the event included: the Program on Aging of the School of Medicine; the School of Social Work; the School of Nursing; the School of Dentistry; the School of Pharmacy; the Interdisciplinary Certificate in Aging Program; the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; the Center for Aging, Disablement and Long Term Care; and the Demography and Economics of Aging Research (DEAR) Program of the Carolina Population Center.

For more information, visit the The Aging Exchange web site.