NCCOA Call For Presentations- Abstracts Due April 30
The Executive Committee of the 2010 North Carolina Conference on Aging, Building a Livable and Senior Friendly North Carolina, has issued a call for presentations. This year's Conference is designated as a Governor's Conference on Aging. The Conference will provide an opportunity to examine policy issues and aging, evidence based research, hear from leading experts, and have input into the identification of priority actions needed to be taken by public and private interests to create a more livable and senior friendly North Carolina. Online submission of presentation proposals is enabled and preferred. The submission deadline is April 30, 2010. Download the call and access the abstract submission form. Information on sponsoring, exhibiting and advertising at this year's Conference will be available on the web site shortly.
DeFriese Award Nominations Are Due May 14
The UNC Institute on Aging is currently accepting nominations for the 2010 Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Awards. These annual awards honor Dr. DeFriese's thirty-year distinguished career in the conduct and development of research to improve the quality of lives of older North Carolinians, and especially his unwavering commitment to developing and supporting the careers of his colleagues. One $5,000 award to support research activities in the field of aging will be available for a UNC-Chapel Hill junior faculty or staff member, and two $2,500 awards will available for doctoral students. Please visit the DeFriese Awards web page for the application form and additional information. Application deadline: May 14, 2010.
Aging Workforce Interest Group: Revised Program For April 20
Lynn Holmes, the new Chair of the North Carolina Employment Security Commission, will speak to the UNC IOA Aging Workforce Interest Group on Tuesday April 20 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. in the IOA's second floor conference room. Holmes was formerly Assistant Vice-President of Ethics and Compliance at BellSouth Corporation (now AT&T) and served as legislative counsel in the U.S. Senate. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the Georgetown University Law School, she earned an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Ms. Holmes will speak about "The Impact of the Economic Recession on Workers and Families in North Carolina" with a special focus on the employment, unemployment, and social support of aging workers. Please rsvp to Peter Stein, Associate Director for Aging Workforce Initiatives to reserve a seat, pstein@schsr.unc.edu or 966-6818.
Care Transitions: Research, Realities and Reform Conference To Feature Carol Hogue Distinguished Lecture
Under the Duke Carolina Visiting Professorship in Geriatric Nursing, sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Dr. Mary Naylor will deliver the 2010 Carol Hogue Distiguished Lectureship on May 5, 2010. The program is part of the Care Transitions: Research, Realities and Reform Conference which will highlight efforts across Duke and UNC's campuses and the community to improve care transitions for seniors. Conference presenters from UNC include IOA Interim Co-Director Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, and Dr. Anna Beeber, Ashley Leak and John A. Hartford, of the UNC School of Nursing. View the conference agenda and register to attend.
Dr. Jennifer Craft Morgan Addresses Congress On Healthcare Leadership Regarding Frontline Healthcare Workers
Jennifer Craft Morgan, PhD, Associate Director for Research at the UNC Institute on Aging and Principal Investigator, UNC Evaluation of the Jobs to Careers Program, recently presented a paper to the Second Annual Forum on Advances in Healthcare Management Research, part of the American College of Healthcare Executives 2010 Congress on Healthcare Leadership. “Growing Your Own Frontline Health and Healthcare Workforce: Promising Practices and Innovations”, co-authored by graduate research assistants Emmeline Chuang and Kendra Jason, and co-principal investigator Thomas R. Konrad, PhD, was selected competitively from abstracts submitted to ACHE. Read more...
Good News For NC Colleagues
Amber Wells, IOA Research Assistant and doctoral student in the UNC Department of Sociology, received the Virginia Association on Aging Student Research Scholarship Award at the annual conference of the Southern Gerontological Society.
AoA Focus On Aging Observances
The US Administration on Aging is highlighting National Volunteer Week (April 14-28) and Older Americans Month (May). AoA's Civic Engagement Initiative marks its contribution to volunteerism awareness, and Older Americans Month features the "My Recipe for Strength" contest (entries due 4/30).
Newsletters From Nonprofits
The Spring 2010 issue of Age in Action, the quarterly newsletter of the Virginia Center on Aging, is available to view. Age in Action invites article and essay submissions for future issues.
Aging & Health Promotion News
NC Roadmap for Healthy Aging receives recognition from Twiki. The North Carolina Roadmap for Healthy Aging web site, an interactive wiki (collaborative web space) to disseminate health promotion programming information throughout the state, was recognized as a great example by Twiki.org, the web-based company that hosts the wiki platform. The NC Roadmap will be added to a list of example sites to which Twiki refers prospective and current customers. Since its launch in November, 2009, the NC Roadmap has developed information on health promotion programming for all 100 counties in the state, with over 75 registered users, and listings of over 30 statewide health promotion programs. Plans are in place to use the NC Roadmap as a tool to organize and disseminate information to lay leaders and master trainers for several evidence-based health promotion programs. Be sure to update your program information on the Roadmap today.
New from NC Researchers
Cutchin, M. P.; Coppola, S.; Talley, V.; Svihula, J.; Catellier, D.; Heatwole Shank, K. (2009). Feasibility and effects of preventive home visits for at-risk older people: Design of a randomized controlled trial. BMC Geriatrics 9: 54.
Heatwole Shank, K.; Cutchin, M. P. (2010). Transactional occupations of older women aging in place: Negotiating change and meaning. Journal of Occupational Science 17: 4-13.
Stowe, R. P.; Peek, M. K.; Cutchin, M. P.; Goodwin, J. S. (2009). Plasma cytokine levels in a population-based study: Relation to age and ethnicity. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. 65A(4): 429-433.
For a list of items recently published by North Carolina faculty, see New & Notable Publications.
New from the Digital Library
These are selected new additions to the AgeLib Digital Library. The links below will open a new window displaying the AgeLib record.
Our grandparents, our parents, our future selves : optimizing function in old age / report
view the record
Social Security programs throughout the world: The Americas, 2009/ report
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The 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey/ report
view the record
Featured Web Site:
NCCNHR
nccnhr.org
Formerly the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, NCCNHR is a national nonprofit organization of consumers and advocates who define and achieve quality for people with long-term care needs. Key elements in this equation are: Informed, empowered consumers;
Effective citizen groups and ombudsman programs; Promoting best practices in care delivery;
Public policy responsive to consumer needs; and Enforcement of consumer-directed standards. The web site currently features a summary of the Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement and Elder Justice Acts recently passed with federal health care reform. Both the policy advocacy and news and events sections feature the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds to receive automatic updates of these web pages.
April Events In NC
April 11, 2010
Funeral Consumers Alliance of the Triangle (FCAT) Annual Meeting
What You Should Know Before You Go To the Funeral Home
2pm
Hospice of Wake County, 250 Hospice Circle, Raleigh, NC
April 14, 2010
5th Annual Aging is Good Business: Opportunities for Entrepreneurs Summit
Sponsored by University of North Carolina at Greensboro Gerontology Program
April 15, 2010
IOA Seminar Series
Circles of Care: Support for African-Americans Facing Cancer
Laura C. Hanson, MD, MPH,
Co-Director, UNC Palliative Care Program, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Center for Aging and Health, UNC
3:30-5:00pm, 2nd fl. conference room, 720 MLK Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill
April 15-16 & 21-22, 2010
Continuing Professional Education
UNC-CH School of Social Work Center for Aging Research and Educational Services
Information: http://ssw.unc.edu/cares/events2009-10.pdf
Register: http://ssw.unc.edu/cares/2009-10Registration%20Form.pdf
April 19, 2010
Webinar: Reframe Injury and Violence in NC
10:00am-Noon
April 20, 2010
Aging Workforce Interest Group
The Impact of the Economic Recession on Workers and Families in North Carolina
Lynn Holmes, Chair, NC Employment Security Commission
1:00-2:30pm, 2nd floor conference room, 720 MLK Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill
April 22, 2010
IOA Seminar Series
Creating and Conducting Collaborative Research: Academic Researchers and Community Partners
Panel of UNC Researchers representing multiple schools, disciplines and community-based agencies and individuals
3:30-5:00pm, 2nd fl. conference room, 720 MLK Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill
April 28, 2010
NC Injury and Violence Prevention Advocacy Day
9:30am-Noon, NC General Assembly, Raleigh
April 28-30, 2010
NC Association on Aging Annual Conference
Greensboro
Save The Dates
May 5, 2010
Care Transitions: Research, Realities and Reform Conference
Duke University, Durham, NC
May 6-7, 2010
Create and Celebrate Elder Arts and The Creative Aging Symposium
Sponsored by Center for Creative Aging North Carolina
May 26, 2010
Changing Lives Through Person-Centered Practices
Embassy Suites Hotel, Greensboro, NC
Contact Libby Phillips at 919-962-0650 for more information.
View our complete events calendar at www.aging.unc.edu/events/.
Community Bulletin Board and Jobs in Aging
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. The Jobs in Aging web page lists notices we have received regarding statewide and nationally available positions.Publication of this newsletter is announced via email listserv. Current and past issues may be viewed at any time at http://www.aging.unc.edu/news/newsletter.html . To join one of our lists, please visit www.aging.unc.edu/news/lists.html for more information. If you have information that you would like to include in this newsletter in the future, please send it to aginginfo@unc.edu at any time.