==========================<>============================== NC*AGING e-newsletter #21 a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center August 1, 2002 ==========================<>============================== SUPPORT THE NC CONFERENCE ON AGING There is still time to support the North Carolina Conference on Aging (October 29-31, 2002, Greensboro, NC) through an ad or a conference exhibit, or by sponsoring an event. Please contact Bill Lamb (bill_lamb@unc.edu) if you have a recommendation regarding a potential sponsor. Current sponsors are shown at http://www.aging.unc.edu/nccoa/sponsors.html. The list is growing but we can use more help and we also want to have a lively exhibit area. <<<<>>>> PEGGYE DILWORTH ANDERSON APPOINTED The Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Peggye Dilworth Anderson as Associate Director for Diversity and Aging. Peggye will join us on August 8th, following a long tenure at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an outstanding researcher in the minority aging area, and in the areas of family, health, and research methods (including qualitative methods). More on Peggye in our next newsletter. <<<<>>>> SENIOR LEADERS COMMENCEMENT The Institute held a commencement on June 14th to celebrate the 2002 class of Senior Leaders. This class included Beverley Wheeler from Greenville, Rita Spina from Farrington, Nancy Hall from Winston-Salem, and Calvin Underwood from Asheville. The commencement speaker was Dr. Ron Manheimer from UNC-Asheville, who spoke about Leadership Training for Older Persons, a project of the Center for Creative Retirement (http://www.unca.edu/cslp/). The Senior Leadership Initiative is a collaborative effort between Duke's Long-Term Care Resources Program and the UNC Institute on Aging; for more information see http://www.aging.unc.edu/service/seniorleaders/index.html. <<<<>>>> DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF OLDER PERSONS A "Declaration of Rights of Older Persons" has been published in conjunction with this year's World Assembly on Aging in Madrid. The document identifies basic universal rights of older people and addresses cross-national issues such as elder abuse, age discrimination, and poverty. To see the full declaration visit: http://www.ilcusa.org/_lib/pdf/un-rightsdeclaration.pdf. More reports and resolutions from the World Assembly in Madrid can be viewed at http://www.un.org/ageing/documents.htm. <<<<>>>> TRY THE DIGITAL CAROUSEL The Digital Carousel for Gerontologists is a collection of selected aging-related slide presentations that are available online. Learn interesting facts, find charts to use in your own presentations, and more. If you have other presentations to recommend for consideration, please send them to aginginfo@unc.edu. The Digital Carousel is available at: http://www.aging.unc.edu/infocenter/slides/index.html <<<<>>>> SUPPORT THE IOA The goal of the UNC Institute on Aging is to enhance the well being of older North Carolinians. This ambitious mission requires that we pull together to work cooperatively and pool our limited resources to achieve the greatest advances in our knowledge about aging and the best ways to provide services to older adults that are cost-efficient and successful. Your financial support can make a remarkable difference for helping the Institute and its partners continue and expand its mission and ultimately, help to enhance the quality of life of older North Carolinians and their families. For more information about making a contribution to the IOA, visit our Gifts page: http://www.aging.unc.edu/about/gifts.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 <<<<>>>> GOOD NEWS ABOUT NC COLLEAGUES Chenoa Flippen, senior research scientist at the Duke University Center for Demographic Studies, has an article entitled "Workers of color and pathways to retirement" in Public Policy and Aging Report, 12 (3): 3-8. Victor Marshall is one of the authors of "Teaching graduate students about methodological issues in research on aging and health," published earlier this year in Educational Gerontology, 28 (2): 107-120. Dr. Dena Shenk, Director, of the Gerontology Program at UNC Charlotte, gave an invited seminar at the National University of Singapore on June 29, 2002. Her presentation was sponsored by the Study Group on Family and Lifecycle Changes and the Asia Research Institute and was entitled "Services for Older Adults in the U.S. and Denmark." She also gave an invited presentation at Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand on July 4 on "Comparative Research on Use of Services by Older Rural Women in Denmark and the U.S." <<<<>>>> FEATURED WEB SITE: Full Circle of Care http://www.fullcirclecare.org/ Full Circle of Care is part of the effort by the Triangle J Area Agency on Aging, and fourteen local aging services agencies, to provide information and services specific to family caregivers of older adults and grandparents caring for grandchildren. Its goal is to help caregivers make informed choices so that the person receiving care can remain in a safe and caring home environment for as long as possible. The site covers myriad topics under broad headings such as helping the elderly remain independent, providing and paying for varying levels of personal care, caregiving needs assessment, social services for the elderly, choosing facility-based care, and others. Additional links to related articles and publications add depth to topic areas. 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 Conference - North Carolina Conference on Aging. October 29-31, 2002. Greensboro, NC. http://www.aging.unc.edu/nccoa/index.html A complete calendar is available at http://aging.unc.edu/calendar.html. <<<<>>>> 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/. Bergeman, Cindy S. (1997). Aging: genetic and environmental influences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. IOA call number: QP86 .B336 1997 Boufford, Jo Ivey; Lee, Phillip R. (2001). Health policies for the 21st century : challenges and recommendations for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. New York: Milbank Memorial Fund. IOA call number: MMF 2001 Heslop, Mandy. (2002). Participatory research with older people: a sourcebook. London: HelpAge International. Available online: http://www.helpage.org/images/pdfs/Participation.pdf United States: Dept of Health and Human Services: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. (2002). Physical activity fundamental to preventing disease. Washington, DC: Dept. of Health and Human Services. Available online: http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/physicalactivity/physicalactivity.pdf ==========================<>============================== 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