==========================<>============================== NC*AGING e-newsletter #25 a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center December 2, 2002 ==========================<>============================== NC CONFERENCE ON AGING 2003- DATE CORRECTION The second annual NC Conference on Aging, previously announced for September 9-11, 2003 is actually scheduled for September 10-12, 2003. The location will be the Adams Mark in Charlotte. Check http://www.aging.unc.edu/nccoa/ for periodic updates. <<<<>>>> REMINDER: DEFRIESE AWARD NOMINATION DEADLINE Nominations for the Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Award are due by December 13, 2002. Read more about the award and download the nomination form at http://www.aging.unc.edu/funding/announce_ghd.html. <<<<>>>> APPLY FOR THE SENIOR LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE The UNC Institute on Aging sponsors the Senior Leadership Enhancement Initiative in partnership with the Duke University Long Term Care Resources Program. This effort supports 3 to 5 older adults in a year-long effort intended to address an emerging aging issue in North Carolina and to provide leadership development opportunities to support the selected candidates. Senior Leaders receive a $2,000 stipend to offset their expenses. We are beginning the application process to select the 2003 class of Senior Leaders; the deadline is February 28, 2003. Information about the program and application forms can be downloaded from http://www.aging.unc.edu/service/seniorleaders/index.html, or contact Bill Lamb at bill_lamb@unc.edu with questions or to recommend an applicant. <<<<>>>> RESEARCH FUNDED ON OLDER WORKERS IN IT SECTOR The IOA will participate in a large, multinational study of older workers in the information technology sector, funded through a $3 million (Canadian) grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to Professor Julie McMullin (University of Western Ontario). Four teams, in Canada, Australia, the European Community and the United States, will each conduct four firm-based case studies. Victor Marshall, IOA Director, is a co-investigator on this grant and will lead the American study team. The four American studies will be conducted in North Carolina (3) and Florida (1). The research group also includes Joanne Gard Marshall, dean of the School of Information and Library Science at UNC, Professors Melissa Hardy and Neil Charness of Florida State University, and advisory board members Debbie Brantley (NC Division on Aging), Sara Rix (AARP, Washington DC), and Claude Snow, a Chapel Hill-based executive with EDS. The project is expected to support doctoral and post-doctoral fellows at UNC Chapel Hill, and doctoral students at FSU. <<<<>>>> ENRICHED FUNDING FOR QUALITY OF DEMENTIA CARE Phil Sloane (Co-director of the Center for Aging, Disability and Long Term Care) has received enrichment funding from three foundations to enhance the quality of person-centered bathing of persons with dementia. The initial project, funded by the Retirement Research Foundation, supported the development and dissemination, to all US nursing homes, of a cd-rom based teaching module to increase the quality of bathing and reduce conflict episodes. The new funding, from the Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and the HCR Manor Care Foundation, will support production and distribution of a videocassette version of the module, and extend the scope of the collaboration between IOA and the Center. <<<<>>>> CAROLINA PROGRAM IN AGING AND HEALTHCARE RESEARCH (CPHAR) NEWS All four doctoral fellows in the CPHAR program, Jennifer Craft Morgan, Peter Reed, Lori Schrodt, and Joe Sharkey, gave presentations at the GSA meetings. Joe Sharkey, having successfully defended his doctorate, commences an academic position at Texas A and M University in January 2003. You can keep up with Joe's continuing activities as well as those of our current students through the CPHAR web page at http://www.aging.unc.edu/research/training/index.html. The CPHAR program expects to admit at its first post-doctoral fellow in January 2003. <<<<>>>> DOCTORAL STUDIES IN THE LIFE COURSE-- GERMANY The Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS) at The University of Bremen, Germany, is an international partner with the UNC Institute on Aging (http://www.aging.unc.edu/education/network.html). The GSSS is currently offering graduate fellowships for doctoral studies, inviting applications to its 3-year Ph.D. program in the following three fields: international relations and political theory, welfare state transformation, and the life course and social change. The GSSS is part of an international network of graduate education and is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The GSSS will accept 15 Ph.D. fellows, 9 of whom will receive a stipend of €1000/month for 36 months according to the ranking list. Funding is available for empirical research and travel for all fellows. Those fellows who do not receive a GSSS stipend will receive assistance in applying for stipends elsewhere. Foreign students, women and applicants with disabilities are encouraged to apply. See http://www.gsss.uni-bremen.de/texte/application.pdf for required application materials. The application deadline is January 15, 2003. <<<<>>>> 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. Linda K. George of the Duke University Department of Sociology has had an article published in The Gerontologist. It is entitled "Research design in end-of-life research: state of science," and can be found in the October 2002 issue, volume 42, special issue III, p.86-98. IOA Director Victor Marshall received the Distinguished Mentor Award of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of GSA, with the presentation made at the recent GSA meetings in Boston. Victor Marshall is co-author of a recently published article in the Canadian Journal of Nursing. The full citation is: D.L. Wells, C.M. Leclerc, D. Craig, D.K. Martin & V.W. Marshall (2002). Evaluation of an integrated model of discharge planning: achieving quality discharges in an efficient and ethical way. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 34 (3): 103-122. <<<<>>>> FEATURED WEB SITE: International Society for Aging and Physical Activity (ISAPA) http://www.isapa.org/ ISAPA is an international not-for-profit society promoting research, clinical practice and public policy initiatives in the area of aging and physical activity. The Society's web site features links to web pages for 4 different global regions, tables of contents and abstracts for the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, a bulletin board, a calendar, course syllabi and an image gallery with pictures of active older adults. 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 December 4, 2002 - LECTURE - Program on Aging Lecture Series: Alcohol and the Elderly. Terry Holt, MD, PhD, Teaching Fellow and Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine. 12 noon -1 pm, 238 MacNider Building, UNC-CH Campus. December 5, 2002 - FORUM - More than Medicines: A Prescription for North Carolina Seniors. Sponsored by Senior PHARMAssist. 8:30am -5pm, Friday Center, Chapel Hill NC. http://www.seniorpharmassist.org/brochure.pdf <<<<>>>> 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/. He, Wan. (2002). The older foreign-born population in the United States: 2000. Washington, DC: Bureau of the Census. Available online: http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p23-211.pdf Marmor, Theodore R. (2002). How Not to Think about Medicare Reform. Unpublished paper presented as an Institute on Aging Distinguished Lecture at a plenary session of the First North Carolina Conference on Aging. Available online: http://www.aging.unc.edu/infocenter/resources/2002/marmort.pdf National Advisory Council on Aging (Canada). (2002). Mental health and aging. Ottowa: National Advisory Council on Aging (Canada). IOA call number: CAN : NACA 2002a ==========================<>============================== 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. 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