News & Highlights
NCCOA Sponsor/Exhibitor/Advertiser Guide Online
The Sponsor, Exhibitor and Advertiser Package for the 2006 North Carolina Conference on Aging is now available. All space is first come, first served, and the exhibit hall has been sold out for previous conferences.
Research Stimulus Grants in Aging Winners
The IOA has selected four grant winners out of seven applicants to its new competitively funded Research Stimulus Grants in Aging Program. Read more about the funded pilot projects.
Altpeter Quoted By News & Observer
IOA Associate Director Dr. Mary Altpeter was quoted in a News & Observer article on senior physical fitness, published on May 27, 2006. The article highlighted evidence-based health promotion research as a validator of physical activity interventions for senior health, focusing on programs provided by Wake County Resources for Seniors.
IOA Highlights For 2005/06
For a quick overview of the activities of the Institute on Aging during the past academic year, see the newly published Highlights 2006 report.
Haywood County COA Wins RWJF Grant
The Haywood County (NC) Council on Aging is one of 8 winners nationwide of four-year, $750K grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for development and implementation of strategic plans to improve long term care and supportive services systems for at-risk older adults. Read more...
Good News For NC Colleagues
Ed Folts, Professor and Chair of Sociology and Social Work at Appalachian State University, was guest editor and wrote the introduction for a special issue of Educational Gerontology (volume 32, number 5, May 2006). The issue included articles by other Appalachian State gerontology faculty and students, including Ed Rosenberg, James Peacock, Bradley Nash, Kenneth Muir, Irene Letrero, Katherine Jones and Katie Flythe. (These articles are mentioned at right under New & Notable.) Dr. Peacock has also been named Secretary of AGHE. Ms. Letrero and Ms. Flythe have received their MA degrees in gerontology, and Ms. Flythe recently won second place in the student paper competition at SGS, for her master's thesis, 'Seeking a 'gerontopia' in dementia care: An assessment of environmental design in special care units'. Ms. Jones is currently a gerontology graduate student.
FORLTC Honors Awardees
Friends of Residents in Long Term Care (FORLTC) recently honored excellence in long term care in North Carolina at its Quest for Quality Awards Banquet. Bill Lamb, FORLTC Immediate Past President and IOA Associate Director for Public Service, emceed the presentation of the following awards: Direct Care Worker Award, Daniel Guerrero; Legislative Advocacy Award, Representative Jennifer Weiss; Sharon Wilder Advocacy Award, Lisa Horton (administrator of Forsyth Village, Winston Salem); Community Advisory Committee Award, Davie County ACH/NH CAC; Best Practice: Assisted Living, Somerset Court (Winston Salem); Best Practice: Nursing Home, Evergreens Senior Healthcare of Greensboro.
Article Highlights Southern Caregiving Study
The Columbus, GA Ledger-Enquirer online recently reported that a University of Florida/Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving study found regional variations in the likelihood that adults will provide regular care to an elderly friend or relative. Read the full article...
AARP State Handbook 2006 Available
The AARP Public Policy Institute has issued its 'State Handbook of Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Indicators 2006'. The entire report can be accessed via the link to the right under 'New Library Resources'. The North Carolina section can be separately viewed as well.
Featured Web Site
Women's Health, Diabetes and Physical Activity
www.chronicdisease.org
This toolkit of products focuses on women, diabetes, and physical activity across the lifespan.
They have been developed to increase the knowledge of public health practitioners and other professionals
working with women. Special sections on women over 65 are included.
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.
Legislative issues in North Carolina: a survey of residents 50 plus
view the record
Living longer, working longer: the changing landscape of the aging workforce - a MetLife study
view the record
Promoting age equality in the delivery of health care
view the record
State handbook of economic, demographic and fiscal indicators 2006
view the record
New & Notable
Bolda, Elise J.; Saucier, Paul; Maddox, George L.; Wetle, Terrie; Isaacs Lowe, Jane. (2006). Governance and management structures for community partnerships: experiences from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Community Partnerships for Older Adults program. The Gerontologist 46(3): 391-97.
Folts, W. Edward. (2006). Introduction to the special issue on elderly volunteerism. Educational Gerontology 32(5): 309-11.
Muir, Kenneth B. (2006). Measuring the benefits of mentoring for foster grandparents: A research note. Educational Gerontology 32(5): 379-87.
Nash, Bradley; Bradley, Dana Burr. (2006). Federal policies and local realities: The case of Appalachian senior programs. Educational Gerontology 32(5): 351-65.
Peacock, James R.; Flythe, M. K.; Jones, K. (2006). A service-learning collaboration: A graduate gerontology program and a foster grandparent program. Educational Gerontology 32(5): 335-49.
Peacock, James R.; O'Quin, J. (2006). Higher education and foster grandparent programs: exploring mutual benefits. Educational Gerontology 32(5): 367-78.
Rosenberg, Ed; Letrero, I. (2006). Using age, cohort and period to study elderly volunteerism. Educational Gerontology 32(5): 313-34.
For a list of items recently published by North Carolina faculty, see New & Notable Publications.
Aging & Health Promotion News
Upcoming Events in NC
July 28, 2006
Creating Intentional Communities for the Second Half of Life
UNC-Asheville Reuter Center
July 30-August 4, 2006
Lifelong Access Libraries Institute
UNC Chapel Hill, NC
October 25-27, 2006
5th Annual North Carolina Conference on Aging
Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center
Research Triangle Park, NC
Community Bulletin Board
Don't forget to check the Community Bulletin Board for other aging-related announcements for seniors, educators, students and professionals.
Current listings include research studies in need of subjects.
View our complete events calendar at www.aging.unc.edu/events/.
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