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April 2004
News
Morgan Wins Impact Award
Jennifer Craft Morgan, Research Scientist at the UNC Institute on Aging, has been awarded an IMPACT Award by the Graduate School at UNC Chapel Hill. The award recognizes the significant impact of her doctoral work and related research on improving the jobs of direct care workers in long term care. Read more...
Senior Leaders Named for 2004-05
The 2004-2005 Class of Senior Leaders has been selected and includes Judith Mansell, Ann Robson and Betty Zimmerman. The Senior Leadership Enhancement Initiative is a program sponsored by the UNC Institute on Aging. This initiative recognizes the importance of older adult leadership in addressing issues affecting citizens, and provides the support necessary to complement the skills and experiences brought by the participants to the program. Read more...
NCGC Receives Grant
Good news for the North Carolina Gerontology Consortium! The University of North Carolina system Office of the President has just awarded an E-learning grant to the NCGC. The $30,000 grant will provide faculty stipends to develop 3-4 new web-based courses.
Careers in Aging Week - April 5-9
This week, the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) and The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) are sponsoring the third annual "Careers in Aging Week". Read more here, including information about IOA resources on this topic.
Distinguished Lecture Text and Slides on Web
Now available for viewing or download from the IOA web site are the text and slides from the most recent Distinguished Lecture, given in January by Betty Mutran.
New Tutorial Available to Distance Education Students
Accessing aging resources at UNC-CH's main campus libraries from home can be a challenge. A new web tutorial, Aging Research from a Distance, provides UNC-CH distance education students with a tool for success. Whether they are searching databases for aging topics, or configuring a home computer to use the UNC-CH proxy server, this tutorial walks distance education students through everything they need to know about using the Chapel Hill campus libraries for aging research.
NCSU Online Journal Focuses on Family Issues
The Forum for Family and Consumer Issues is a free online journal from NC State University focusing on current issues related to families. Issues often deal with aging related topics. Luci Bearon, who is the Aging/Adult Development Specialist in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at NCSU, is on the Executive Board of the journal. Read it here.
Upcoming Events in NC
April 14, 2004 Program on Aging Lecture Series
Spiritual approaches to advance care planning.
12:30–1:30 pm
April 15, 2004
ECRA Seminar Series
Functional health literacy and help seeking and receiving behavior among
Medicare Managed Care enrollees.
10-11:30 am
April 21, 2004 Program on Aging Lecture Series
Communicating with
surrogates at the end of life.
12:30-1:30 pm
April 21, 2004 Forum
Transportation Service for Older Adults - Issues and Strategies for Meeting
the Need. 10:00 am-3:00 pm
April 22, 2004 ECRA Seminar Series
Bringing the older minority community to the research process. 10-11:30 am
April 26-28, 2004 Annual Training Conference
North Carolina Association on Aging- "Building Aging Friendly Communities."
Asheville, NC
April 28, 2004 Program
on Aging Lecture Series
Substance abuse in older adults. 12:30-1:30 pm
See the complete calendar.
Featured Web Site
The Global Generations Policy Initiative
www.genpolicy.com
The Global Generations Policy Initiative is a non-profit, intergenerational advocacy initiative seeking to: raise awareness of the challenges arising with the aging of the baby boomers; lead the U.S. in developing innovative, systems-focused national policies that address these challenges; lead and fund proactive initiatives that promote and facilitate informed policy debate concerning the challenges of maturing global populations.(This site is best viewed using Internet Explorer. Click on 'main menu' to leave the home page of the Harvard Generations Policy Journal and explore the rest of the web site.)
This web site and others have been selected for inclusion in AgeLib, the IOA's Digital Library of aging resources. Search AGELIB now.
New Library Resources
These are selected new additions to the AgeLib Digital Library. The links below will open a new window displaying the AgeLib record.
Financial crimes against the elderly
view the record
Health and safety needs of older workers
view the record
Kaiser conversations on health with AARP CEO Bill Novelli
view
the record
The active aging toolkit: promoting physical activity in older adults
for healthcare providers
view the record
New & Notable
These are items recently published by North Carolina Faculty. For a complete list, see New & Notable Publications.
Bors, P.; Altpeter, M.; Luken, K.; Marshall, V.W. (2004). Community design: the next step to an active society? Journal on Active Aging 3(1): 24-35.
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