==========================<>============================== NC*AGING e-newsletter #15 a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center February 4, 2002 ==========================<>============================== DISTINGUISHED LECTURE ON SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM, AND AWARDS CEREMONY, MARCH 4, 2002 A ceremony to present the 2001 Gordon H. Defriese Career Development in Aging Research Awards to Shannon S. Currey and R. Tamara Hodlewsky will be held At the Institute on Aging Distinguished Lecture on March 4, 2002. Read the press release about the award winners at http://www.aging.unc.edu/news/2001/0522awardwinners.html. The Lecture on Social Security reform by Dr. Joseph E. Quinn is scheduled for 3:30pm at the UNC Chapel Hill Friday Center. Dr. Quinn is a Professor of Economics at Boston College and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Health and is currently working with the Health and Retirement Survey, analyzing the nature and timing of retirement in the 1990s. NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION ON AGING CONFERENCE Mark your calendars for the 2002 NCAOA Conference at Wrightsville Beach at the Blockade Runner April 17-19. There will be a reduced room rate available to conference attendees for the weekend if you want to prolong your stay and bring the family. Look for registration information to be available later in February. Updates will be available at http://www.ncaoa.org/news.html. 2002 NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE ON AGING Additional information is now available on the North Carolina Conference on Aging, scheduled for October 28-31, 2002 at the Greensboro Marriott Hotel. Conference sponsors include the UNC Institute on Aging, AARP, the Governor's Advisory Council on Aging, the N.C. Division of Aging, the N.C. Association on Aging and the N.C. Association of Area Agencies on Aging. Some topics to be addressed in the plenary and workshop sessions include North Carolina's long term care initiatives, vital and healthy aging, family in the 21st century, direct practice skills, professional and volunteer leadership, work and retirement, gerontological education and workforce development and aging in place with community support. Those interested in being a conference sponsor, having an exhibit or submitting a proposal to do a workshop, contact the Institute on Aging at (919) 966-9444. To join an email list for ongoing information, visit the IOA web site at http://www.aging.unc.edu/news/lists.html. Watch for conference registration materials in early summer. SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF AGING CONFERENCE NOTICE Kennesaw State University will be hosting the Southeastern University/ Community Conference on Spiritual Dimensions of Aging: Research and Practice, in Kennesaw, Georgia, May 31 - June 2, 2002. The purpose of the conference is to bring together cutting-edge programs, new knowledge and expanded skills in the area of spirituality and aging. Topics will include grieving and dying, Alzheimer's disease and spirituality, loss and meaning making, mental illness and suicide, as well as how religion may impact health through mind-body mechanisms. For more information, contact Kimberly Johnson 770-499-3340 or kjohnson@kennesaw.edu, and view the conference news release posted at http://www.aging.unc.edu/news/2002/0117spirit.html. PROJECT COMPASSION HAS AN OPENING FOR AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Project Compassion is a community-based organization dedicated to enhancing the resources and support available to all individuals as they recognize and embrace dying, death and grief as a normal part of life. A Board of Directors oversees operations, and includes representatives from area hospitals, universities and community stakeholders, and includes the Executive Director. The Executive Director is responsible for managing financial and administrative operations of the Project. These administrative duties include supervision of a small staff and volunteers, working with the Board of Directors to implement community- based education programs, participating in public engagements and implementing policies and procedures and program operations that support the organization's overall mission, values and goals. The Executive Director provides the vision and talent to skillfully plan for, and guide the Project Compassion program toward continued future growth while maintaining a the warm and caring environment and program image. Inquiries, resumes and salary histories should be sent to Project Compassion, 8407 Inverness Way, Chapel Hill, NC 27516. IN MEMORIAM – DR. LINDA FURSTENBERG Anne-Linda Furstenberg, Ph.D., IOA Fellow and UNC-Chapel Hill Associate Professor of Social Work died on January 23, 2002 of complications of carcinoid cancer. Dr. Furstenberg's area of specialization was health and mental health of older adults, with a particular interest in the impact of the aging process on the functioning of older adults, and in the creation of services to help older adults in the community. She was also active in numerous aging-related groups, including the UNC Institute on Aging and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. A memorial service will be held at the School of Social Work on February 2, 2002 at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work, designated in Dr. Furstenberg's name. GOOD NEWS ABOUT NC COLLEAGUES Dr. Sheryl Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Social Work and Public Health and Co-Director of the Program on Aging, Disability and Long-Term Care of the Sheps Center for Health Services Research, was recently awarded a five year career award by the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Zimmerman will use this award to continue to make scholarly contributions to the field of assisted living and other forms of long- term care for the elderly. <<<<>>>> FEATURED WEB SITE: Facts On Dying : policy relevant data on care at the end of life http://www.chcr.brown.edu/dying/factsondying.htm The Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is engaged in a five-year research effort to use both existing and new data collections to describe the dying experience in the United States of America utilizing maps which display geographical data about quality of end-of-life care. Research results to date are available on the site. The following questions will be treated in the later phases of this project: Of persons living in nursing homes, how many have directives about future medical care? How are hospice services utilized across the United States? For persons insured by Medicare, how many spend time in an ICU prior to death in the last year of life? What are the concerns voiced by bereaved family members about the quality of end of life care in the United States? 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/agelib/. <<<<>>>> UPCOMING EVENTS IN NC February 6, 2002 – LECTURE - "Case-based Discussion of Vascular Dementia". Program on Aging Lecture Series: Malaz Boustani, MD. 12noon - 1pm, 238 MacNider, UNC-CH Campus, Chapel Hill, NC. February 13, 2002 – LECTURE - "An Unlikely Friendship - Community Advocacy at its Finest". Program on Aging Lecture Series: Florence Soltys, MS, ACSW, CCSW. 12noon - 1pm, 238 MacNider, UNC-CH Campus, Chapel Hill, NC. February 20, 2002 – LECTURE - "Advocacy in Medication Management and Access". Program on Aging Lecture Series: Gina Upchurch, RPh, MPH. 12noon - 1pm, 238 MacNider, UNC-CH Campus, Chapel Hill, NC. February 27, 2002 – LECTURE - "The Art of Caring When You're Not Always There: Lessons from Daughters of Long-term-care Residents". Program on Aging Lecture Series: Jill Passmore, Regional Ombudsman, Triangle J Council of Governments, & Daughters of Long-term-care Residents. 12noon - 1pm, 238 MacNider, UNC-CH Campus, Chapel Hill, NC. <<<<>>>> NEW RESOURCES AVAILABLE The following are 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/. Davis, Robert C.; Medina-Ariza, Juanjo; National Institute of Justice. (2001). Results from an elder abuse prevention experiment in New York City. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice. Electronic access only: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/188675.pdf Ginn, Jay; Street, Debra; Arber, Sara (Eds.) (2001). Women, work, and pensions : international issues and prospects. Buckingham: Open University Press. IOA call number: HD6053 .W646 2001 ==========================<>============================== 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 2002 UNC Institute on Aging 720 Airport Rd, Suite 100 CB #1030 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 966-9444 ioa@unc.edu