Promoting Environmental And Policy Change To Support Healthy Aging, And The Aging Exchange- Conference/Event Registration Continues

There is still time to register for the Prevention Research Centers-Healthy Aging Research Network (PRC-HAN) Research to Practice Symposium, Promoting Environmental and Policy Change to Support Healthy Aging. The symposium will take place September 15-16, 2009 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. The keynote address will be delivered by Larry Adelman, Co-Director of California Newsreel and Executive Producer of the award-winning PBS series, "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" The Conference program, registration form, and fees can be found at: http://www.prc-hanconferences.com/. Registration for this symposium is separate from the Aging Exchange.
The Aging Exchange, sponsored by the UNC Institute on Aging and generous contributors (listed on the web site) both within and outside of the University, will take place on September 15th from 5:30-8:30 pm, in conjunction with the Symposium. The registration deadline is September 8th. The program will feature: presentations of the Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Awards; a reception with hors d'oeuvres; the PRC-HAN symposium keynote address; and poster presentations by UNC-CH graduate students and faculty. Winning posters are eligible for cash awards; the deadline to submit poster abstracts is Sept. 4th.
The Aging Exchange and the keynote address are free and open to the public, however, registration is required via email to diane_wurzinger@unc.edu, or call 919-843-2647. Free parking is available in the Friday Center lot.

Falls Prevention Awareness Week Agendas Developing

Falls are the leading cause of fatal injuries, and the second leading cause of nonfatal injuries, for North Carolinians 65 and older. That’s why Governor Beverly Perdue has declared the first week of fall, September 20-26, to be “Falls Prevention Awareness Week.” Health, community, and senior service organizations across the state will observe this week by holding presentations, classes, health fairs, and exercise demonstrations to raise awareness among older persons and their families about the seriousness of falls, and ways to reduce fall risks to stay active and independent. Organizations can find resources and activity ideas at http://www.healthyagingprograms.org/content.asp?sectionid=149 to promote further awareness. Read more...

IOA Fall Seminar Series Schedule Set

Current information about the UNC Institute on Aging Seminar Series, including details of the fall schedule, are now online.

Aging Workforce Interest Group September Meeting

Karin Cross, Vice President of Human Resources and Senior Strategist for Aging Workers Solutions at APC Inplacement, will address the first Aging Workforce Interest Group meeting for Fall 2009, on Tuesday, September 29th from 1:00-2:30 p.m., at the Institute on Aging, 720 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill. (Note the change in the scheduled time from what was published in last month's newsletter.) This meeting is free and open to the public. For more information contact Peter Stein at: pstein@schsr.unc.edu

Certificate In Aging Students Catch Kerr Drug's Attention

The UNC Certificate in Aging (CIA) Seminars are not just to encourage interdisciplinary teamwork among rising new professionals in the health care realm at UNC. They have also more recently proven to provide valuable information to those who provide key services to the older adults in our community. The overall purpose of the Seminar Series is to provide a multidisciplinary forum to convey that life-long learning, critical inquiry, advocacy, and education are central to providing optimal care to older adults. In the Fall of 2008, the interdisciplinary group of seminar students considered a “case” of an older couple with health, function and resource needs. They identified items they would need from a local drug store, and then visited drug stores in the area to identify access and usability issues. The students presented their findings to a local Kerr Drug store manager, and the ideas got passed on to Rebecca Chater, the director of clinical services at Kerr Drug, Inc. Read more...

IOA Selects New CPHAR Fellow

Janette Dill, IOA Graduate Research Assistant and doctoral student in the UNC Department of Sociology, has been selected as a fellow of the UNC Institute on Aging Carolina Program in Health and Aging Research (CPHAR). CPHAR offers predoctoral and postdoctoral training opportunities supported by a National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Training Grant from the National Institute on Aging. Several openings are anticipated in the program in 2010.

Good News For NC Colleagues

North Carolina scholars James N. Laditka, Rebecca Hunter, Sarah P. Laditka, and Bei Wu authored a combined total of 10 articles for a special June 2009 supplemental issue of The Gerontologist, titled Promoting Cognitive Health in Diverse Populations of Older Adults. The project of the same name is managed by the CDC-PRC Healthy Aging Research Network, of which UNC-Chapel Hill is a member center. View citations to the individual articles. In addition, former IOA CPHAR fellows Peter Reed and Joseph R. Sharkey were contributing authors, and Sharkey was a guest editor.

Quoting The Experts

On August 19, 2009, Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, IOA Interim Co-Director, Director of the Center for Aging and Diversity, and Professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, was quoted in a Bloomberg.com article, "Americans gained 73 days to live in 2007, CDC says."

September Aging Observances

• Healthy Aging Month
• Grandparents' Day- first Sunday after Labor Day
• Falls Prevention Awareness Week in North Carolina- September 20-26, 2009
• National Employ Older Workers Week- September 21-25, 2009
• Active Aging Week- September 21-27, 2009

JASP Call For Papers

The Journal of Aging & Social Policy is soliciting papers for a special issue consisting of recommendations for improvements in aging policy during the second decade of the twenty-first century. Contributions are sought on a wide range of issues as they are experienced and addressed in the United States and abroad, in manuscripts of 10 to 15 pages. Submit a one-page prospectus by September 30, 2009. Papers will be due on March 31, 2010. More information...

Newsletters From Nonprofits

The Summer 2009 issue of Age In Action, the quarterly newsletter of VCU's Virginia Center on Aging, is available to view or download.

New from NC Researchers

New from the Digital Library

Upcoming Events In NC

September 8, 2009
IOA Seminar Series
Elizabeth Allen, MSLS, Grant Source Librarian, UNC Grantsource Library
Identifying Funding Sources in Aging Research

September 9, 2009
"Cross Train Your Brain"
Free seminar sponsored by Brookdale Optimum Life Program
Keynote speakers include Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy, Chief of Biological Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center
CEU's available for nurses & social workers
RSVP's are required: resmith@brookdaleliving.com or 877-291-7360
8:30am-2:00pm, Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill

September 15, 2009
2009 Senior Health Fair
10am- 1pm, Greensboro Public Library, 219 North Church St., Greensboro, NC
Free admission, health screenings, door prizes.

September 15, 2009
The Aging Exchange
5:30-8:30 pm, Friday Center, Chapel Hill, NC
Note: This event is being held in conjunction with the HAN Symposium below

September 15-16, 2009
Promoting Environmental and Policy Change to Support Healthy Aging
A Research to Practice Symposium presented by the
CDC Prevention Research Centers-Healthy Aging Research Network
Friday Center, Chapel Hill, NC

September 20-26, 2009
Falls Prevention Awareness Week in North Carolina

September 22, 2009
IOA Seminar Series
Sally Stearns, PhD, Professor, Health Policy & Management, UNC Chapel Hill
The Effect of Nursing Aide Turnover on Nursing Home Resident Outcomes

September 29, 2009
Aging Workforce Interest Group
speaker: Karin Cross, Vice President of Human Resources and Senior Strategist for Aging Workers Solutions, APC Inplacement
1:00-2:30pm, 2nd floor conference room, 720 MLK Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill

September 29, 2009
IOA Seminar Series
Ken Bollen, PhD, and Peter Leousis, PhD, Director & Deputy Director, Odum Institute, UNC Chapel Hill
An Overview of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science

Save The Dates

October 6, 13, 20, 27, 2009
IOA Seminar Series- see the Fall 2009 schedule for details

October 20-21, 2009
Aging Boot Camp
Sponsored by the NC Association on Aging
Fayetteville-Cumberland Senior Center, Fayetteville, NC

October 27, 2009
Aging Workforce Interest Group
What is SCSEP and why you need to know about it: Creating jobs for older workers in North Carolina
Panel: Liz Needham, Title V Project Coordinator, NC Division of Aging and Adult Services; Roland Staton, Program Coordinator, National Caucus and Center for Black Aged; Doris Kaneklides, Participant, National Caucus and Center for Black Aged
1:00-2:30pm, Institute on Aging, 720 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill

View our complete events calendar at www.aging.unc.edu/events/.

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