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Center on Aging in the News
Grant for UConn Health Center Palliative Care - April 16th, 2013 |
The UConn Health Center is one of 15 new sites for the Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification for Palliative Care. With that distinction comes a $10,000 award from the LIVESTRONG Foundation to grow the Health Center’s palliative care program.
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Carving Out a Clinical Research Niche in Geriatrics - April 9th, 2013 |
Advances in medicine have enabled a dramatic shift in longevity over the course of human history. It would stand to reason that the longer we live, the more opportunity we have to develop health problems, be it a specific disease or, as the years and miles add up, the diminishing of function.
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Geriatric Psychiatry: Anticipating Needs from a “Silver Tsunami" - March 13th, 2013 |
The recently appointed chairman of the psychiatry department at the UConn Health Center is working to galvanize research and clinical resources to address what is being called a “silver tsunami” – the burgeoning need for mental health services for older adults.
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Kristof Wins Presidential Poster Award - May 21st, 2012
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Dr. Lorand Kristof, a geriatric medicine fellow, won a presidential poster award during the 2012 American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting in Seattle earlier this month.
The poster “Experiences of Informal Caregivers of Older Adults Discharged from Nursing Homes to the Community through the Money Follows the Person Demonstration Program” highlighted UConn Center on Aging research conducted by Kristof, Richard Fortinsky Julie Robison, and Courtney Butler.
The research found that caregivers of older adults discharged to the community after a prolonged nursing home stay have less caregiver stress, a lower level of burden and higher levels of positive aspects of caregiving. However, burden and symptoms of depression are significantly higher in caregivers of parents.
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Demand for home care workers soaring, but will there be enough takers? - January 25th, 2012 |
Dawn Luciano spends her weekends working as a personal care attendant, caring for seniors and people with disabilities in their homes. She'd like to spend her weekdays doing it, too.
"Unfortunately, I can't," Luciano, of Killingly, said. That's because she relies on her other, full-time job as a financial sales representative to get health insurance and enough income to support her and her two sons in college. The home care job doesn't provide either.
Ensuring that there are enough direct care workers to meet the growing demand is one of the most significant challenges facing state officials as they try to dramatically expand the availability of home-based long-term care.
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Geriatrician appointed Director of UConn’s MD/PhD Training Program - January 6th, 2012 |
We are very pleased to announce that Carol Pilbeam, Ph.D., M.D., has accepted the position of Director of the MD/PhD program. She has served as the Interim Director of the program since June, 2011.
Dr. Pilbeam was recruited to the Health Center by the Center on Aging in 1987. Her clinical specialties are geriatrics and osteoporosis, and she does NIH funded research in skeletal biology. She has been Director of the Skeletal Craniofacial and Oral Biology area of concentration in the Biomedical Science graduate program. She is a Professor of Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery and a member of the New England Musculoskeletal Institute and the Graduate Clinical and Translational Research faculty. Dr. Pilbeam will continue to work closely with Dr. Kream, the previous director of the program who is now Associate Dean of the Graduate School, to continue the high quality of the MD/PhD program and to develop new initiatives. We are very excited that Dr. Pilbeam has accepted this very important leadership role and wish her continued success.
Barbara Kream, Ph.D.
Suzanne Rose, M.D., MSEd
Bruce Liang, M.D.
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Center on Aging Professor co-authors an important book on Dementia Care in Minority Elders - January 6th, 2012 |
This new title will enable you to apply specific ethnic understanding and cultural sensitivity to the caregiver and afflicted family member.
Understanding the role of dementia caregivers in different ethnic and cultural contexts is one of the most important skills that you should master. This comprehensive volume provides practical guidance for professionals who work with Black and Latino families living with the daily challenges of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. It is grounded in the interpretation and meaning of dementia in Black and Latino cultural heritages, and based on both a solid theoretical framework and the substantial research and clinical expertise of the authors.
Detailed, step-by-step guidelines to assessment and intervention in ethnic-specific situations provide useful strategies that go beyond generic solutions. The text presents an overview of the epidemiology and clinical course of dementia with a focus on those forms of the disease most common to Blacks and Latinos. It addresses family care and role responsibilities in ethnic families and their theoretical, ethnic, and cultural foundations. Self-efficacy and cognitive behavioral problem-solving theories are discussed as modalities of choice. The text also considers financial and service delivery trends and use of technology, and provides detailed forms, documents, and dementia care resources. Numerous case studies will help readers to quickly put information into the context of real-world situations.
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As Influenza Season Begins, Researchers Work to Improve Vaccine for Seniors - September 27th, 2011 |
As the influenza season gets underway, Health Center researchers study ways of making the flu vaccine more effective for older adults. Click Here To Read The Full Article
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Grip Strength Is Good Indicator of Overall Health - June 10th, 2011
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When Richard Bohannon does physical therapy with his stroke and cancer patients, the one thing he always makes sure to check is their grip strength. While not yet widely used in the medical community, a grip strength test can be an important screening tool in assessing a person’s overall health, says Bohannon, a professor of physical therapy in the Department of Kinesiology at the Neag School of Education. Click Here To Read The Full Article
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Study Shows Many Older Americans Not Getting Sufficient Calcium - May 25th, 2011
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Older men and women consume less calcium through their diets than younger adults, and may need to adjust their food intake or increase their use of calcium supplements to prevent osteoporosis, according to researchers at the University of Connecticut and Yale University. Click Here To Read The Full Article
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Rethinking Long-Term Care - April 4th, 2011 |
In these lean economic times, when state funding is being reduced for a broad range of projects and needs, one area where Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants to significantly increase funding is linked to the research of Julie Robison, associate professor of medicine at the UConn Center on Aging: Click Here To Read The Full Article
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UConn Center on Aging Physician Shares Expertise on Shingles - February 6th, 2011 |
Dr. Glendo Tangarorang from the UConn Center on Aging discusses shingles on WTIC NewsTalk 1080’s “Living Well Connecticut” with Bill Pearse.
As aired on WTIC NewsTalk 1080, February 6, 2011.
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Training Tomorrow’s Experts in Aging - January 21st, 2011
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The UConn Center on Aging's Gail Sullivan is inspiring others to dedicate themselves to the field of geriatrics: Click Here To Read The Full Article
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Finding the Right Home - and Contentment, Too - August 6th, 2010 |
A study by Julie Robison, PhD and staff published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology cited and Dr. Robison quoted in NY Times online article: Click Here To Read The Full Article
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A Day Focused on Aging Issues - March 2nd, 2010 |
The University of Connecticut held its first Aging Research Day at the Health Center on March 1. The theme of the meeting was "Translational Approaches to Healthy Aging: Journeys from the Community to the University and Back." There were nearly a dozen presentations from faculty representing five different UConn schools. The three main categories of speakers focused on clinical research, basic science, and behavior or community based research: Click Here To Read The Full Article
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Career Ladder: Promotions At Trinity, Quinnipiac - February 22nd, 2010
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Dr. Gail Sullivan, an associate director for education at the University of Connecticut Center on Aging and a professor and program director of geriatric medicine fellowship at the UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, was elected editor of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) by The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
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