==========================<>============================== NC*AGING e-newsletter #30 a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center May 1, 2003 ==========================<>============================== NCCOA REGISTRATION MATERIALS AVAILABLE ONLINE The Pre-Program/Registration booklet and abstracts for the 2003 North Carolina Conference on Aging are now available online through the Conference home page at: http://www.aging.unc.edu/nccoa. Registration forms can be downloaded from the website and faxed (with credit card information) or mailed with a check. (A hard copy of the Pre-Program/Registration booklet will be available by mid May.) The deadline for submitting sponsor advertisements is JUNE 6th. Those forms are also available through the conference website. <<<<>>>> NCCOA PROGRAM DIRECTOR RECEIVES GRANT Mike Murphy, Aging Services Director for the Cabarrus County Department of Aging, and program director of the North Carolina Conference on Aging, has received a National Blueprint mini-grant award to promote physical activity among older adults, from the Active Aging Partnership. Read more at http://www.agingblueprint.org/ViewArticle.cfm?id=76&class=2 <<<<>>>> NC DIVISION OF AGING PUBLISHES NEW STATE AGING SERVICES PLAN The Division of Aging of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has published The 2003-2007 State Aging Services Plan. Its theme, the Aging of North Carolina, underscores the importance of the new plan in preparing for a significant demographic transition. The primary topics of the report are healthy aging, long-term care, economic security and senior-friendly communities. The full text of the plan is available in Adobe Acrobat format at http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/aging/sasp2003.pdf. Smaller sections may be individually selected for viewing from http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/aging/plan.htm. <<<<>>>> 'BEAUTY OF AGING' CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED The winners and other entries in the recent 'Beauty of Aging Unveiled' art contest for students, sponsored by the UNC-Chapel Hill interdisciplinary Certificate in Aging program, can be viewed at http://www.aging.unc.edu/certificate/beautyofaging/contestentries.html. <<<<>>>> HEALTHY AGING NETWORK SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULED FOR JUNE Join the North Carolina Healthy Aging Network on June 18, 2003 for a symposium focused on health promotion for older adults. Topics include: exemplary health promotion programs; community-campus partnerships for health; research and evaluation methods. This is an opportunity to network with others interested in prevention and health promotion for older adults, see health promotion exhibits and collect program information. The symposium will be held at the William and Ida Friday Conference Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Registration is $30 and covers continental breakfast, lunch, snacks and conference materials. Parking is free. Registration materials will be available soon at http://www.aging.unc.edu/groups/healthyaging/. <<<<>>>> NIAAA RECRUITING MINORITY INVESTIGATORS The Alcohol Research Mentoring System (ARMS), sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities of NIH, is recruiting new, minority investigators interested in alcohol-focused social or behavioral science research projects. ARMS will match these new, Ph.D.-level, investigators with senior, NIAAA-funded researchers who will serve as mentors.. To request an application, please contact Mary Ann D'Elio (mdelio@cdmgroup.com). To discuss research issues, contact Dr. Marcia Scott at NIAAA, 301-402-6328. For more information about alcohol research or the ARMS program, visit http://www.niaaa.nih.gov or http://www.niaaa-arms.org. <<<<>>>> 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 Victor Marshall received the "Academic Gerontologist Award" of the Southern Gerontological Society at its meeting in Richmond, April 12. Dena Schenk, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has been elected Treasurer of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. Jim Mitchell, professor of Sociology at East Carolina University, has been appointed to a three-year term, beginning in July 2003, as editor of the Journal of Applied Gerontology. <<<<>>>> NEW & NOTABLE Thornton, M.; Travis, S.S. (2003). Analysis of the reliability of the modified caregiver strain index. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 58B(2): S127-132. Zimmerman, Sheryl; Gruber-Baldini, Ann L.; Sloane, Philip D.; Eckert, J. Kevin; Hebel, J. Richard; Morgan, Leslie A.; Stearns, Sally C.; Wildfire, Judith; Magaziner, Jay; Chen, Cory; Konrad, Thomas R. (2003). Assisted living and nursing homes: apples and oranges? Gerontologist 43: 107-117. For recently published items by North Carolina faculty, see our list of New & Notable Publications at: http://www.aging.unc.edu/research/notable.html. <<<<>>>> FEATURED WEB SITE: NIHSeniorHealth http://nihseniorhealth.gov/index.html This new website for older adults has been jointly developed by the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine. Its intent is to open the valuable resources of the NIH to great numbers of people over 60 who use the Internet to learn more about their health and aging. The site is organized by health topic and currently includes information on Alzheimer's disease, caring for someone with Alzheimer's, and exercise for older adults. Within each topic there are sections containing general background information, open-captioned videos, short quizzes, and frequently asked questions (FAQs). Other health topics of interest to older adults will be added in the future. 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 May 1, 2003 - IOA SEMINAR SERIES (ECRA) - Assessing Client Satisfaction in Long Term Care. Betty Mutran, Director, Center on Minority Aging, Institute on Aging. 12:00pm, Room 204, 730 Airport Road, Chapel Hill. May 5, 2003 - LECTURE - Socioeconomic Status and Trajectories of Health Across the Life Course. Kim Shuey and Andrea Willson. Sponsored by Demography and Economics of Aging program. 3:30pm, Gardner 211, UNCCH campus. May 8, 2003 - IOA SEMINAR SERIES (CPHAR PROSEMINAR) - Cognitive Aging. Ute Bayen, UNC-CH Dept. of Psychology. 12:00pm, Room 204, 730 Airport Road, Chapel Hill. May 15-16, 2003 - CONFERENCE - Surfing the Age Wave. Sponsored by Carolinas Active Retirement Association (CARA). Cypress of Charlotte retirement community, Charlotte, NC. Call 888-742-7362 for more information. May 21-22, 2003 - CONFERENCE - The Golden Years and Domestic Abuse: Creating Community Partnerships. City Hotel and Bistro, Greenville, NC. More information at http://eahec.ecu.edu/. May 22, 2003 - Activity Based Alzheimer Care: Building a Therapeutic Program. Sponsored by Alzheimer's Association, Western Carolina Chapter. Location TBD, near Statesville. More information at http://www.perigee.net/~alz/A_educate.htm <<<<>>>> 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/. Arias, Elizabeth; Smith, Betty L.; Division of Vital Statistics. (2001). Deaths: preliminary data for 2001. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. IOA call number: US : NCHS 2003-03 Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr51/nvsr51_05.pdf North Carolina. Division of Aging. (2003). The aging of North Carolina: the 2003-2007 North Carolina aging services plan. Raleigh, NC: Division of Aging. Available online: http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/aging/sasp2003.pdf Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2003). Society at a glance: OECD social indicators 2002 edition. Paris: OECD. IOA call number: OECD 2003 ==========================<>============================== 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 2003 UNC Institute on Aging 720 Airport Rd, Suite 100 CB #1030 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 966-9444 ioa@unc.edu