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NC*AGING e-newsletter #5
a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center
April 2, 2001
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REGISTER FOR THE SUMMER SYMPOSIUM
This year's NC Summer Symposium on Aging will be held in Wilmington, NC
from July 18-20. The theme of this year's meeting is "A Sea of Voices...
Colleges and Communities Collaborating." The program and registration
materials are available here:
http://www.aging.unc.edu/news/2001/symposiumprog.pdf

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NEED HELP DEVELOPING A COURSE IN AGING?
Often it helps to see examples of what other instructors are doing. The
IOA Information Center has resources that contain syllabi, readings, and
other instructional materials from other faculty.  For example, we have
the following books in our collection:
   _AGHE Collection of Syllabi_
   _Teaching About Aging: Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural
Perspectives_
   _The Life Course: A Handbook of Syllabi and Instructional Material_
These and other materials are described in AGELIB, our online database
of aging resources, which you can search at
http://www.aging.unc.edu/infocenter/agelib/.  Suggested subject terms
for locating instructional materials include: curriculum, gerontology
education, instructional materials, and teaching techniques.

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NEW AGHE OFFICERS
AGHE (Association on Gerontology and Higher Education) has just elected
Chuck Longino, Wake Forest University, as President, and Jim Mitchell,
East Carolina University, as Treasurer. Professor Longino is a member of
the Advisory Board of the Institute on Aging, and Professor Mitchell is
Associate Director for Educational Development and Chair of the
Statewide Advisory Committee for the Institute.

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FEATURED WEB SITE: AGEWORK
http://www.agework.com/
Are you looking for a job related to aging?  The AgeWork web site is a
service of the Gerontological Society of America that lists job opening
nationwide. 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/

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OLDER AMERICANS MONTH
A reminder that next month (May) is designated as Older Americans Month.
This year's theme is "The Many Faces of Aging."  The U.S. Administration
on Aging has prepared a number of resources including posters and fact
sheets to support activities during Older Americans Month available from
their web site:
http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/may2001/

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UPCOMING EVENTS IN NC
A complete calendar is available at http://aging.unc.edu/calendar.html

April 5, 2001 | LECTURE Robert Willis: "Research Frontiers in the
Economics, Health and Demography of Aging" | Carolina Population Center
Distinguished Lecture Series | 3:30p.m. | Chapel Hill NC

April 9-10, 2001 | ADVOCACY Training for Long Term Care Advocates (9th)
& Long Term Care Advocacy Day at the General Assembly (10th) | Raleigh
NC

April 13, 2001 | SEMINAR Michael Hurd: "The Distribution of Bequests" |
Sponsored by the DEAR program at UNC Chapel Hill | 12:00p.m. | 405
University Square East, Chapel Hill NC

April 21, 2001 | SEMINAR Caregiving Seminar: Elders Living Alone |
Sponsored by UNCG & Blakey Hall | 11:00am-4:00pm | Elon, NC

April 24, 2001 | LECTURE Jeanie Kayser-Jones: "Malnutrition,
Dehydration, and Weight Loss: A Continuing Tragedy in American Nursing
Homes" | Sponsored by Duke University | 5:00pm | Rauch Conference Room,
Morris Bldg, Duke Clinics, Durham NC

April 26-27, 2001 | CONFERENCE Advancing the Quality of Health Care in
North Carolina (special topic: Providing quality care for an aging
population) | Sponsored by the Medical Review of North Carolina | Cary,
NC

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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/.

Beers, Mark H. & Berkow, Robert (Eds.). (2000). Merck manual of
geriatrics (3rd ed). Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck Research
Laboratories.
RC952.55 .M47 2000
also available at http://www.merck.com/pubs/mm_geriatrics/

Lamb, Sarah. (2000). White saris and sweet mangoes : aging, gender, and
body in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Available online:
http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/south_asia/lamb

Kuehne, Valerie S. (Ed.). (1999). Intergenerational programs :
understanding what we have created. New York: Haworth Press.
HQ1061 .I5275 1999

National Association of Adult Protective Services Administrators (1997).
Adult protective services : compilation of workload studies and caseload
data.
NAAPSA 1997

Tallis, Raymond, Fillit, Howard & Brocklehurst, J. C. (1998).
Brocklehurst's textbook of geriatric medicine and gerontology.
Edinburgh, New York: Churchill Livingstone.
RC952 .T45 1998

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