==========================<>============================== NC*AGING e-newsletter #3 a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center February 1, 2001 ==========================<>============================== STATE CONFERENCE ON AGING Plans are underway to convene a North Carolina Conference on Aging in 2002. This conference represents a new direction for the current annual meeting, the Summer Symposium on Aging. Read more about the changes in the news release: http://www.aging.unc.edu/news/2001/0201conference.html <<<<>>>> SENIOR LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE The Senior Leadership Initiative, sponsored by the UNC Institute on Aging, is taking applications until February 5, 2001. This program is a continuation of the Senior Leadership Program managed by the Duke Long Term Care Resources Program and will continue to receive stipend support from them for the next three year period. Participation is open to any older person currently residing in North Carolina. To learn more about the program and downlaod application materials, visit the Senior Leadership page: http://www.aging.unc.edu/service/leadership.html <<<<>>>> OLDER WORKERS AND RETIREMENT INTEREST GROUP The Institute is forming an interest group to focus on older worker and retirement issues, with the hope of having a two-hour morning meeting every six weeks or so. Watch our web site for details and email victor_marshall@unc.edu to get on the list. We plan to exchange ideas, discuss research, program and policy issues, and perhaps develop some projects based on mutual interests. <<<<>>>> FEATURED WEB SITE: FIRSTGOV FOR SENIORS http://www.seniors.gov/ FirstGov for Seniors is designed as a one-stop portal to U.S. government information specifically for older adults. This web site and others have been selected for inclusion in AGELIB, the Institute on Aging's database of aging resources. You can search AGELIB at: http://www.aging.unc.edu/infocenter/agelib/ <<<<>>>> UPCOMING EVENTS IN NC A complete calendar is available at http://aging.unc.edu/calendar.html February 1, 2001 | Osteoporosis and You Statewide Workshop | 9:30am-1:00pm | Durham Public Library, Durham, NC February 16, 2001 | Race, Class, and Environment: The State of Minority Health : The 23rd Annual Minority Health Conference | Chapel Hill, NC March 4-5, 2001 | Faith in the Future: Religion, Aging, and Healthcare in the 21st Century | Duke University, Durham NC <<<<>>>> NEW RESOURCES AVAILABLE These are a few of the recent acquisitions of the IOA Information Center. Our entire collection of resources (including print materials, full text electronic materials, and web sites) is searchable via our database, AGELIB, at http://aging.unc.edu/infocenter/agelib/. Brown, Lester B. (1997). _Gay men and aging._ New York: Garland. HQ76.2.U5 G385 1997 Frolik, Lawrence A. (1999). _Aging and the law : an interdisciplinary reader._ Philadelphia: Temple University Press. KF390.A4 A424 1999 Koch, Tom. (2000). _Age speaks for itself : silent voices of the elderly._ Westport, CT: Praeger. HQ1064.U5 K63 2000 National Alliance for Caregiving : a national resource for caregivers http://www.caregiving.org North Carolina Bar Association: Law and Aging Committee. (2000). _Senior citizens handbook : laws and programs affecting senior citizens in North Carolina._ Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Bar Association. NCBA : LAC 2000 Silbajoris, Christie (2000). _Health information needs and the internet : a survey of older adults._ Unpublished masters thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Silbajoris 2000 ==========================<>============================== This newsletter is distributed to the email lists of the IOA (ioanews, ioafaculty-uncch, cia). 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 2001 UNC Institute on Aging 720 Airport Rd, Suite 100 CB #1030 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 966-9444 ioa@unc.edu