==========================<>============================== NC*AGING e-newsletter #31 a service of the UNC Institute on Aging Information Center June 2, 2003 ==========================<>============================== REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR NC HEALTHY AGING SYMPOSIUM IS JUNE 10 The NC Healthy Aging Symposium, sponsored by the North Carolina Healthy Aging Network, will be held on June 18, 2003 in Chapel Hill. The symposium will feature excellent speakers from NC and across the country, and participants will discuss exemplary health promotion programs, community-campus partnerships for health, and research and evaluation methods. The Office of Healthy Carolinians/Health Education will offer seven (7) Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) continuing education credits for this symposium. Program agenda and registration materials are available at http://www.aging.unc.edu/groups/healthyaging/symposium/preprogram.pdf <<<<>>>> ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH REPORT SHOWS AGEISM IN HEALTHCARE A report by the non-profit Alliance for Aging Research, released the week of May 19 and presented to U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, characterizes the treatment of many seniors' health problems as "shoddy" and pervaded by age discrimination. The report is featured below in the IOA's list of new resources, and can be found in full text at http://www.agingresearch.org/brochures/ageism/ageism_booklet_final.pdf <<<<>>>> CDC, ASA COLLABORATE ON MEDIA BACKGROUND PAPERS The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has collaborated with the American Society on Aging (ASA), San Francisco in association with the Journalists Exchange on Aging (JEoA) to produce new media background papers. During the past two years, these organizations have identified significant health topics of interest to journalists who write about aging-related issues. This initiative combines the expertise of CDC in public-health science and health-promotion interventions for older adults and the ability of ASA to present scientific information in clear terms journalists can readily use in articles about key public-health topics. Four new papers were released at the Joint Conference of ASA and the National Council on the Aging (NCOA) in Chicago in March 2003. They can be found at http://www.asaging.org/media/cdc.cfm. <<<<>>>> 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 Bill Lamb of UNC-CH has been appointed as a professional member to the North Carolina Certification and Licensing Board for Social Work, to serve a three year term. Tiffany Shubert, a doctoral student in human movement science at UNC-CH, has been awarded a $5,000 scholarship by the American Federation for Aging Research for summer 2003. She will undertake a three-month research project to study the effects of exercise on angiogenesis in the hippocampus of geriatric mice, at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, under the supervision of Henriette Van Praag, Ph.D. The outcomes of such studies are viewed as having exciting implications for the management of dementia in humans. Robin Crabtree, IOA administrative assistant, and Timothy Burke, UNC-CH facilities services, were married on May 10. Robin will now be known as Robin Burke. View Robin's bridal portrait at http://www.aging.unc.edu/news/2003/0514robin.html <<<<>>>> NEW & NOTABLE Clarke, Philippa. (2003). Towards a greater understanding of the experience of stroke: integrating quantitative and qualitative methods. Journal of Aging Studies 17 (2): 171-187. He, Y.H.; Colantonio, A.; Marshall, V.W. (2003). Later-life career disruption and self-rated health: an analysis of General Social Survey data. Canadian Journal on Aging 22 (1): 45-57. Ward-Griffin, Catherine; Marshall, Victor W. Reconceptualizing the relationship between 'public' and 'private' eldercare. (2003). Journal of Aging Studies 17 (2): 189-208. For additional recently published items by North Carolina faculty, see our list of New & Notable Publications at: http://www.aging.unc.edu/research/notable/notable.html. <<<<>>>> FEATURED WEB SITE: Live well, live long: health promotion & disease prevention for older adults http://www.asaging.org/cdc/ The American Society on Aging has created strategies and materials to enhance the capacity of national, state and local organizations in serving the health promotion and disease prevention needs of older adults. The site contains three modules: Blueprint for health promotion; Strategies for cognitive vitality; Optimal medication use. They can be used for integration into existing health promotion programs, or the development of new ones. 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 June 18, 2003 - CONFERENCE - NC Healthy Aging Symposium. 9am-4:30pm, Friday Center, Chapel Hill NC. http://www.aging.unc.edu/groups/healthyaging/symposium/preprogram.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/. Alliance for Aging Research. (2003). Ageism: how healthcare fails the elderly. Washington, DC: Alliance for Aging Research. Available online: http://www.agingresearch.org/brochures/ageism/ageism_booklet_final.pdf Dillon, Rosemary; Young, Lisa. 2003. Creating career ladders in the extended care industry: the role of the Massachusetts community colleges in the extended care career ladder initiative. Massachusetts Community Colleges. Available online: http://www.directcareclearinghouse.org/download/eccli.pdf North Carolina: State Center for Health Statistics; North Carolina: Division of Public Health: Older Adult Health Branch; North Carolina: Division of Aging. 2003. A health profile of older North Carolinians. Raleigh, NC: State Center for Health Statistics. Available online: http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/pdf/Elderly.pdf O'Brien, Nora. 2003. Emergency preparedness for older people. New York: International Longevity Center-USA. Available online: http://www.ilcusa.org/_lib/pdf/epopib.pdf Taylor, Philip. 2002. New policies for older workers. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. IOA call number: PP 2002-12b United States: General Accounting Office. 2003. Retirement income: intergenerational comparisons of wealth and future income. Washington, DC: General Accounting Office. Available online: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03429.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. To unsubscribe from any of these lists, follow the instructions for unsubscribing that are included at the bottom of each message you receive from the list. 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