==========================<>============================== NC*AGING e-newsletter #22 a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center Sept. 3, 2002 ==========================<>============================== 2020 INSIGHT: THE NC CONFERENCE ON AGING Final arrangements are being made for the NC Conference on Aging to be held in Greensboro from October 29-31, 2002. Be sure to register before September 27th to avoid a late fee. Special conference events being planned include: a luncheon honoring George Maddox; a poster session and reception; breakfast roundtables; a luncheon and presentation of the recent AARP publication, Beyond 50, including reactions from Lt. Governor Beverly Perdue, Orage Quarles III, publisher of the News and Observer, and Charles Longino, Professor, Wake Forest University; an evening of fun and networking at a Halloween Party; and a closing general session with Theodore Marmor, Professor of Public Policy and Management from Yale University. The conference registration and full description of all events and workshops can be downloaded from the Institute's website: www.aging.unc.edu/nccoa/ <<<<>>>> CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - BUSSE RESEARCH AWARDS In order to promote international research in gerontology, two Busse Research Awards will be given at the 3rd Pan American Congress of Gerontology to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 30 - May 3, 2003. In recognition of significant contributions to aging research one award will recognize a scientist from the social/behavioral sciences, the other, a scientist from the biomedical sciences. These awards are supported from an endowment made by Gerontology International in honor of Ewald W. Busse, M.D., past president of the International Association of Gerontology and founding director of the Duke Aging Center. This endowment is administered by the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. Information on the nomination process is available at http://www.geri.duke.edu/busse/busse.html. <<<<>>>> MOODY WORKSHOPS EXPLORE "THE SOUL OF AGING" Harry R. Moody is coming to North Carolina for three days of workshops in Raleigh, Wilmington and Chapel Hill, October 11th -14th. Two workshops will be of particular interest to professionals in gerontology, health care, social work and human services, and ministry. "Ethical Dilemmas in Work with Older People" will be held in Raleigh, Friday afternoon, October 11th ; and "The Soul of Bioethics" is scheduled for Monday afternoon in Chapel Hill. Moody's credits include his popular books, "The five stages of the soul," and "Aging: concepts and controversies," a long tenure at the Institute for Human Values in Aging and a decades-long association with Elderhostel. The workshops are sponsored by Second Journey, a non-profit organization, and are offered in partnership with the Shepherd Center in Raleigh, the Gerontology Program at UNC-Wilmington, and the University of North Carolina Institute on Aging. For more information, including registration details, visit www.SecondJourney.org/Moody.htm. <<<<>>>> LONG TERM CARE AWARENESS WEEK IS OCTOBER 1-7 Citizens For Long Term Care, a coalition of long term care consumers, providers, insurers, workers and professionals has designated October 1-7, 2002 as Long Term Care Awareness Week. Participating members have agreed to coordinate their organizations' messages to educate consumers, elected officials, and the media about the importance of planning for one's future long term care needs. The chosen theme is C.A.R.E. (Conversation, Action, Reform, Experiences). The coalition's web site at http://www.ltcawareness.org/ contains suggestions for candidate and media outreach, and grassroots activities to help disseminate the message. <<<<>>>> IOA WELCOMES PEGGYE DILWORTH ANDERSON The UNC Institute on Aging welcomes Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson as Associate Director for Aging and Diversity, with an appointment in the UNC-CH School of Public Health as well. For more about her background, please visit http://www.aging.unc.edu/bio/dilworthanderson.html <<<<>>>> CPHAR HAS NEW DIRECTOR Victor Marshall has become Director of the Carolina Program for Health Care and Aging Research, which is the doctoral and post-doctoral training program of the Institute. He succeeds Dr Carol Hogue, who has formally retired but will remain on the Steering Committee for the CPHAR program and also retain an office in the Institute on Aging. More information on CPHAR can be found at http://www.aging.unc.edu/research/training/. <<<<>>>> DIRECTORY OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG PATIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS An inventory of the major assistance programs offered by pharmaceutical manufacturers to Medicare patients who cannot afford to pay retail prices for prescription drugs is available at http://www.rxassist.org/. The directory is searchable by company, brand or generic name and drug class. <<<<>>>> 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 Dr. Eleanor Krassen Covan, UNC Wilmington Director of Gerontology, and IUPUI School of Nursing colleague, Dr. Phyllis Noeragar Stern, have been awarded a $5,000 grant from Sigma Tau International to study the impact of World War II on the career paths and life history of nurses trained in California during the early 1940s. In June Dr. Covan participated in the 13th International Congress on Women's Health Issues held at Ewah University in Seoul, Korea where she presented a keynote address on publishing tips and, with Dr. Stern, a methodology workshop on grounded theory. Dr. Covan also spent two weeks at Khon Kaen University in Thailand in July, at the invitation of the Dean of the faculty of nursing regarding the development of a geriatric nursing program on that campus and advising faculty and doctoral students about qualitative research methods in gerontology. Joe Sharkey, IOA doctoral fellow, has successfully defended his dissertation. He will assume a faculty position at Texas A&M in January, 2003. Joe has also had an article published with UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Nutrition professor Pam Haines. Entitled "Use of telephone-administered survey for identifying nutritional risk indicators among community-living older adults in rural areas", it can be found in the Journal of Applied Gerontology, 21 (3) September 2002, 385-403. The article is based on research supported through an Exploratory Project Grant from the UNC Institute on Aging. <<<<>>>> FEATURED WEB SITE: Trends in health and aging data warehouse http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/agingact.htm This site contains data collected to show trends in health-related behaviors, health status, health care utilization, and cost of care for the older population in the United States. Major sections include trends in health and aging, longitudinal studies of aging, and the Federal Interagency Forum on Health Statistics. 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 September 19, 2002 - CONFERENCE - 2002 Aging Services Institute, Charlotte, NC. http://www.centralina.org/ September 30-October 6, 2002 - EVENT - Senior Games State Finals, Raleigh, NC. http://www.ncseniorgames.org/ CONFERENCE - 1ST Annual North Carolina Conference on Aging. October 29-31, 2002, Greensboro, NC. View the program and session abstracts at http://www.aging.unc.edu/nccoa/program.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/. Canada. Forum of Labour Market Ministers. (2002). Older workers in the labour market: employment challenges, programs and policy implications. Human Resources Development Canada. Available online: http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/sp-ps/lmp/owe_toc.shtml CSIS Commission on Global Aging. (2002). Meeting the challenge of global aging: a report to world leaders from the CSIS Commission on Global Aging. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies. IOA call number: CSIS : CGA 2002 England, Robert Stowe. (2002). Global aging and financial markets : hard landings ahead? Washington, DC: CSIS Press. IOA call number: HG 4523 .E53 2001 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; Commonwealth Fund; Tufts-New England Medical Center. (2002). Seniors and prescription drugs: findings from a 2001 survey of seniors in eight states. New York, NY: Commonwealth Fund. Available online: http://www.cmwf.org/programs/elders/safran_seniorsprescriptions.pdf Holzmann, Robert; Stiglitz, Joseph E. (eds.) (2001). New ideas about old age security: toward sustainable systems in the 21st century. Washington, DC: World Bank. IOA call number: HD 7105.3 .N49 2001 Phelps, Erin; Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr.; Colby, Anne (eds.) (2002). Looking at lives: American longitudinal studies of the twentieth century. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. IOA call number: H 62.5 .U5 L665 2002 ==========================<>============================== 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