==========================<>============================== NC*AGING Newsletter #1 a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center December 1, 2000 ==========================<>============================== WELCOME Welcome to the first issue of NC*AGING. This electronic newsletter is designed to give you brief updates about aging activities and news in North Carolina. We'd like it to be as useful as possible, so please send your comments and suggestions to aginginfo@unc.edu. <<<<>>>> NEW 'AGING IN THE NEWS' SERVICE You can now get up-to-the-minute news headlines from major news services around the world! The headlines are all aging related, are updated all day long, and link you directly to the source. Just go to the IOA home page (http://www.aging.unc.edu) and look for the "Aging in the News" heading. Click on the link for "More headlines..." to get a more extensive list of headlines. <<<<>>>> POST, DISCUSS, COLLABORATE!! The IOA is sponsoring a new and improved communication tool for you and your colleagues around the state. The 'Aging in North Carolina' bulletin board and discussion forum is the best place for you to post aging-related job notices, find research partners, discuss aging education, and more. Current categories are: 1)gerontology education, 2)jobs & employment, 3)research on aging, 4)statewide aging issues, and 5)volunteer opportunities. The forum is easy to use and available from any web browser by going to http://www.aging.unc.edu/news/ and clicking on 'Aging in North Carolina Forum'. <<<<>>>> UPCOMING EVENTS More information on each event and a complete calendar is available on the IOA web site at http://aging.unc.edu/calendar.html December 7, 2000 | Lecture, co-sponsored by the UNC IOA and the North Carolina Division on Aging | Robyn I. Stone: "Integrating Supportive Services into Family Caregiving" | Raleigh, NC December 7, 2000 | Distinguished Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the UNC IOA and the North Carolina Division on Aging | Robyn I. Stone: "The Future of the Long Term Care Workforce" | Chapel Hill, NC December 7, 2000 | Health Promotion/Older Adult Interagency meeting | Raleigh, NC December 12, 2000 | Lecture sponsored by the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development | James S. Goodwin, MD: "New Models of Medical care for the Elderly: The Example of Breast Care" | Durham NC December 12 & 13, 2000 | The Great Divide: Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities | Raleigh, NC <<<<>>>> NEW RESOURCES AVAILABLE These are some of the recent acquisitions of the IOA Information Center. Our entire collection of print materials, full text electronic materials, and web sites is searchable via our database, AGELIB, at http://aging.unc.edu/infocenter/. Cantarella, Gina-Marie (Ed.). (2000). _National guide to funding in aging_. New York: The Foundation Center. HV1461 .W42 2000 Coleman, Penny. (2000). _Village elders_. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. HQ75.6 .U52 N73 2000 North Carolina: Department of Insurance. (1999). _North Carolina guide to long-term care insurance_. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Department of Insurance. NC : DOI 1999-09 Schrodt, Lori A. (2000). _Characteristics of stepping over an obstacle in older adults under dual-task conditions_. Unpublished masters thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Schrodt 2000 Stone, Robyn I. (2000). _Long-term care for the elderly with disabilities : current policy, emerging trends, and implications for the twenty-first century_. New York: Milbank Memorial Fund. http://www.milbank.org/0008stone/index.html ==========================<>============================== This newsletter is distributed to the email lists of the IOA (ioanews and ioafaculty-uncch). To join one of these lists, please visit http://aging.unc.edu/news/lists.html for more information. If you have information that you would like to see included in this newsletter or on the IOA web site, please send it to aginginfo@unc.edu. Copyright 2000 UNC Institute on Aging 720 Airport Rd, Suite 100 CB #1030 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 966-9444 ioa@unc.edu ---