==========================<>============================== NC*AGING e-newsletter #19 a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center June 3, 2002 ==========================<>============================== UTE BAYEN AND KIMBERLY REYNOLDS NAMED 2002 DEFRIESE AWARD WINNERS The UNC Institute on Aging has announced this year's winners of the Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Awards. These annual awards honor Dr. DeFriese's distinguished, thirty-year career in the conduct and development of research to improve the quality of lives of older North Carolinians. The awards are given to one junior faculty/staff member and one doctoral student from UNC Chapel Hill who demonstrate outstanding promise and a commitment to aging research. This year's faculty/staff awardee, Dr. Ute Bayen, has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology since 1996, involved in numerous research projects related to memory performance in older adults. She has also been actively involved in undergraduate and graduate courses in the psychology of aging, serving on the curriculum development committee of the American Psychological Association Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging) and on the Advisory Board of the interdisciplinary, graduate Certificate in Aging here at UNC. Doctoral student awardee Kimberly Reynolds is a student in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, where she is currently working on research that will form the basis of her dissertation on the topic of racial disparities in end of life care. As a research assistant, she has participated in projects focusing on the needs and quality of care of dying older patients, and the preparation of training manuals for nursing staff to provide improved quality of care to this population. The award recognition ceremony will be held at a later date during the next academic year. More information on the Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Awards is available at http://www.aging.unc.edu/funding/announce_ghd.html. IPRC STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS COMPETITION The UNC Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC) will award $250 to one or more outstanding student research papers on an injury topic for the 2001-2002 academic year. This competition is open to students statewide - anyone who has been enrolled for any length of time since June 2001 in an undergraduate, graduate or professional school degree-granting program in North Carolina is eligible to apply. Papers must be on any topic of intentional or unintentional injury with public health or health care implications, such as: domestic violence, work-related injuries, motor vehicle crashes, fires and burns, falls, poisoning, sports injuries, etc. Papers may focus on the epidemiology, prevention, rehabilitation, acute care or biomechanics of injury. The deadline for papers is JULY 26, 2002. Detailed guidelines regarding submission and selection criteria may be obtained on the IPRC website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/iprc. CPHAR COMPLETES FIRST YEAR The Carolina Program on Healthcare and Aging Research, CPHAR, a predoctoral and postdoctoral research training program in the UNC Institute on Aging, funded by the National Institute on Aging, NIH, has successfully competed its first year. The Program, directed by Carol Hogue, PhD, has recruited four outstanding pre-doctoral fellows: Joseph Sharkey, a student in the Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health; Peter Reed, a student in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health; Lori Schrodt, a student in Human Movement Science, School of Medicine; and Jennifer Craft Morgan, a student in Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences. The fellows have all conducted research and have had papers published. Topics include cognitive and balance performance in older adults, nutrition in older adults in community settings, quality of care for persons with dementia in long term care settings, and experiences of certified nursing assistants in long term care settings. Following Dr. Hogue’s retirement in June, Victor Marshall will become director of the CPHAR. ARTICLE OF INTEREST Mollie Orshansky, the creator of the U.S. federal poverty guidelines still in use today, is 87 and suffers from dementia. Her family and the courts are fighting over her guardianship. Read about it at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18759-2002May27.html <<<<>>>> AGING IN NC FORUM Check out the Aging in NC Forum for the latest job postings, news, and discussion: http://www.aging.unc.edu/news/board.html <<<<>>>> FEATURED WEB SITE: World Health Organization [WHO], Department of Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Ageing and Life Course http://www.who.int/hpr/ageing/index.htm This site, one of the collaborative program areas of WHO’s Department of NPH, contains information about current events and projects (such as the Global Movement for Active Ageing), a list of collaborating partners, and access to publications on active ageing, ageing and development, gender and ageing, a life course perspective on ageing, long term care for the aged and noncommunicable diseases in older age. 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/. <<<<>>>> 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/. Alliance for Aging Research. (2002). Medical never-never land: ten reasons why America is not ready for the coming age boom. Washington, DC: Alliance for Aging Research. Available online: http://www.agingresearch.org/advocacy/geriatrics/02016_aar_geriatrics_text.pdf Carre, Francoise; Ferber, Marianne A.; Golden, Lonnie; Herzenberg, Stephen A. (eds.) (2000). Nonstandard work: the nature and challenges of changing employment arrangements. Champaign, IL: Industrial Relations Research Association. IOA call number: HD 5854.2 .U6 National Council on the Aging. (2002). American perceptions of aging in the 21st century: the NCOA’s continuing study of the myths and realities of aging. Washington, DC: National Council on the Aging. Available online: http://www.ncoa.org/study_aging.pdf Noelker, Linda S.; Harel, Zev (eds.) (2001). Linking quality of long-term care and quality of life. New York: Springer Publishing Company. IOA call number: RA 997 .L565 2000 Olson, Laura Katz (ed.) (2001). Age through ethnic lenses: caring for the elderly in a multicultural society. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. IOA call number: HQ 1064 .U5 A63327 2001 Smith, Vicki. (2001). Crossing the great divide: worker risk and opportunity in the new economy. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press. IOA call number: HD 5724 .S6143 2001 Wykle, May L.; Ford, Amasa B. (1999). Serving minority elders in the 21st century. New York: Springer Publishing Company. IOA call number: HQ 1064 .U5 S469 1999 ==========================<>============================== 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 ---