==========================<>============================== NC*AGING e-newsletter #23 a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center October 3, 2002 ==========================<>============================== DISTINGUISHED LECTURE TO FEATURE SPEAKER ON MEDICARE On November 1, 2002 the Institute on Aging will sponsor a Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Theodore H. Marmor, entitled “Aging myths, Medicare, and American welfare state politics.” Dr. Marmor is Professor of Public Management and Political Science at Yale University, and is affiliated with the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and the School of Nursing. He has been a Rock Carling Fellow, Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, and fellow (Emeritus) Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His research concerns the political economy of the welfare state, political analysis, health and health care. See “Upcoming Events” below for time and location information. <<<<>>>> IOA ANNOUNCES SEMINAR SERIES The UNC Institute on Aging is pleased to announce that it will convene a series of seminars during the 2002-3 academic year. The seminars will feature faculty and students discussing their research strategies, results, and implications. Topics will cover a wide range, including life course issues, delirium, community research, and the influence of research on policy. For more information, visit http://www.aging.unc.edu/education/seminars.html. <<<<>>>> U.S. NEWS ANALYZES NURSING HOMES’ COST OF DOING BUSINESS A new investigative report by U.S. News & World Report presents analysis of nursing home finances and refutes the industry’s predictions of its own impending ruin: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020930/health/30homes.htm. <<<<>>>> NEW & NOTABLE One of the many services available on the IOA web site is our list of new & notable research publications. This list covers publications by North Carolina authors or about North Carolina, and now goes back 3 years. We rely on your contributions and input to build the list, so please feel free to send us citations to be included (send them to aginginfo@unc.edu ). To access the list, go to: http://www.aging.unc.edu/research/notable.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 Dr. Luci Bearon, adult development and aging specialist with North Carolina Cooperative Extension, member of the Institute on Aging Statewide Advisory Committee and associate professor with the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at N.C. State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been named to an 11-member panel of national experts addressing issues related to caregiving. The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Human Development at Georgia Southwestern State University convened the Building Community Caregiving Capacity panel as part of the newly established Johnson & Johnson/Rosalynn Carter Institute Caregivers Program. Bearon will advise the institute on strategies to build capacity for caregiving through community education. <<<<>>>> FEATURED WEB SITE: The Human Mortality Database http://www.mortality.org/ The Human Mortality Database (HMD) was created to provide detailed mortality and population data to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in the history of human longevity. The main goal of the database is to document the longevity revolution of the modern era and to facilitate research into its causes and consequences. At present the database contains detailed data for a collection of 17 countries. 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 October 9, 2002 – LECTURE – Martha Henderson, MSN, DMin, FNP/GNP: Living and Dying Well 238 MacNider Building, UNC-CH, 12 noon-1pm. October 11-14, 2002 - WORKSHOP - Harry R. Moody Workshops, Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Wilmington. www.SecondJourney.org/Moody.htm October 16, 2002 – LECTURE - Karen McCullough, PT, MS, NCS: Constraint-induced Movement Therapy to Improve Arm Function After Stroke: The EXCITE Clinical Trial at UNC. 238 MacNider Building, UNC-CH, 12 noon-1pm. October 23, 2002 - LECTURE - Yeu-Li Yeung, MS, OT: Assistive Technology Resources for Seniors. 238 MacNider Building, UNC-CH, 12 noon-1pm. October 29-31, 2002 - CONFERENCE - North Carolina Conference on Aging, Greensboro, NC. http://www.aging.unc.edu/nccoa/ October 30, 2002 – LECTURE - Gina Upchurch, RPH, MPH: National, State, and Local Issues Affecting Seniors and Their Medications. 238 MacNider Building, UNC-CH, 12 noon-1pm. November 1, 2002 - DISTINGUISHED LECTURE - Theodore R. Marmor: Aging Myths, Medicare, and American Welfare State Politics. Sponsored by the UNC Institute on Aging. 9:00 a.m., 1301 McGavran Greenberg Bldg., UNC Chapel Hill. <<<<>>>> 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/. AARP: Public Policy Institute; Smolka, Gerry; McDougall, Cathy; Figueiredo, Carlos. (2002). Health coverage among 50-64 year olds. Washington, DC: AARP. Available online: http://research.aarp.org/health/dd73_coverage.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 Schoenborn, Charlotte A.; Barnes, Patricia M. (2002). Leisure-time physical activity among adults: United States, 1997 –98. Washington, DC: National Center for Health Statistics. Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad325.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. 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