News Release

News from the Center for Aging and Diversity

March 15, 2006

The Center for Aging and Diversity at the UNC Institute on Aging is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a new grant to study caregiving in African American families. Funding has been provided in the amount of $51,654 to Drs. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson and Sharon Williams and two collaborators at Shaw University, Linda Vanhook and Melanie Stafford, to conduct some preliminary research on the social constructions of cultural meanings and reasons for caregiving in African American families. The funding for this study is being provided through a larger grant, $1,094.055, awarded to Dr. Daniel Howard from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality for the Shaw University Minority Elderly Research Center (SUMMER).

In other news, Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Director of the Center for Aging and Diversity, was recently appointed a three year term, 2006-2009, to the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council (MSAC) of the Alzheimer's Association. The primary responsibility of MSAC is to oversee the funding of innovative research through the grants program of the Association.  The Alzheimer's Association has spent approximately $17 million annually on research for the last few years. The distribution of these funds is the responsibility of MSAC.

 

About the Center for Aging and Diversity
The Center for Aging and Diversity addresses, through research and training, health disparities in later life, provides a forum in which to discuss and examine ethnic, racial and cultural variation in life course processes and disseminates research findings to the academic and lay community on the health of older diverse populations. For more information, please visit the website at http://www.aging.unc.edu/cad/