News Release

Institute on Aging to have Prominent Presence at Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting

November 10, 2009

The Institute on Aging will have a significant presence at the Gerontologicial Society of America (GSA) 62nd Annual Meeting to be held November 18-22 in Atlanta, GA. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Interim Co-Director of the IOA and Professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, will be inducted as the new President of GSA. Mary Palmer, Interim Co-Director of the IOA and Helen W. & Thomas L. Umphlet Distinguished Professor in Aging in the UNC School of Nursing, will chair the Fellows Committee and coordinate the Fellows Mentor Program during the meeting. 

Additionally, the following IOA personnel (noted in bold) will make paper, poster, and symposium presentations:

Papers

• Jennifer Craft Morgan and Janette S. Dill "Direct Care Workers in Community Health Centers: Providing Care for Underserved Populations"
• Sally C. Stearns, Laura P. D'Arcy. “Do Stable Nursing Home Staff Improve Resident Outcomes?”
• Ellen Roberts, Tiffany Shubert, Anthony Caprio, Donald Woodyard, Patricia Gregory, Jan Busby-Whitehead. “Falls Risk Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE): Creative Approach to Geriatric Education.”
• Judie Svihula; Malcolm Cutchin; Sue Coppola; Vibeke Talley; Mary H. Palmer. “Preventive Home Visits: Testing a Social Model of Care in the United States.”

Posters

• Monique D. Cohen, Peggye Dilworth-Anderson.“Expanding the Assessment of Coping Among Diverse Groups of Caregivers.”
• Mary Altpeter, Britta Schoster, Andrea Meier, & Leigh Callahan. "Methodological Recommendations for Conducting Formative Evaluation of Community-based Interventions: Revision of the Arthritis Foundation Walk With Ease Program."
• Eva Katz, June Stevens, Kimberly Truesdale,  Jianwen Cai, Kari North. “Association of Parental History of Hypertension, Age and Body Mass Index (BMI) with Hypertension in Chinese.”

Symposiums 

• Symposium Title: Organizing Against the Attack on Entitlements: Current Policy and Advocacy Strategies in Support of Social Insurance.
  • Symposium presentation: Carroll Estes, Judie Svihula, Brooke Hollister, Brian Grossman, Leigh Rogne. “The Assault on Social Security and the Birth of a Countermovement."
• Symposium Title: The Stroke Telemedicine Access Recovery (STAR) Project: A Creative Approach to Community-Based Stroke Care.
  • Symposium presentations:
    Sharon Williams, Anna C. Felix. “Formal Support Use among African Americans with Stroke-Related Disability.”
    Anna C. Felix, Sharon Williams, Patricia C. Gregory, Keturah Faurot. “The Acute Stroke Process of Care Study.”