CGEC Hires New Coordinator
Cheryl Miller has joined the staff of the Carolina Center for Geriatric Education at UNC-CH. She has a master of science in gerontology, and was most recently at the Hawaii County Office of Aging. Prior to her year in Hawaii, she was the Deputy Director of the UCLA School of Medicine Geriatric Education Center.

Her focus at the center will be to help health professionals get access to knowledge and training about elders and their health care needs.

 

Older-adult Immigrants Find Home at Cary Senior Center
Above, dancers at the Cary Senior Center. Photo courtesy of the Cary Senior Center.

The 17,000-square-foot Cary Senior Center was dedicated in 2000 to provide recreation and education to the fastest-growing segment of the town’s population: older adults. Cary has experienced other demographic changes in recent years, such as increased numbers of Asian and Hispanic immigrants. Population changes among the aging, however, are a welcome challenge to Jody Jameson, supervisor of the Cary Senior Center. The center supports programs that are reflective of Cary’s...
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Wake AHEC Offers Continuing Education Course for Registered Nurses

The Wake County Area Health Education Center (Wake AHEC) announces a course to prepare registered nurses to take the American Nurse Credentialing Center’s Gerontological Nurse Certification Exam.

The course will be taught by Mary Val Palumbo, DNP, GNP-BC on June 9, 2008, from 8:30 AM to 4:45 PM at the Holiday Inn Raleigh, North in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Mary Val Palumbo, DNP, APRN, is Director, Office of Nursing Workforce, Research Planning and Development, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing and a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner at the Fletcher Allen Health Care Memory Center. For 11 years she was a Continence Specialist. She received her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Rush University in 2004. Dr. Palumbo is currently conducting research on Vermont’s nurse workforce with particular focus on the older nurse.

Six and three quarter contact hours will be offered for attending the day-long course. Registration costs $145.00 ($160 after June 2, 2008). There is information on ANCC testing at http://www.nursecredentialing.org/cert/PDFs/GeroExamApp.pdf, and you may call Wake AHEC at (919) 350-8547 or (866) 341-1814 for information or go to https://www.wakeahec.org/CourseCatalog/CASCE_courseinfo.asp?cr=23120.

Faculty Development Program in Health Literacy and Aging

Health Literacy Session in February 2008 at the UNC-CH Carolina Alumni Building

In spring 2008 the Carolina Geriatric Education Center (CGEC) will work with North Carolina’s health care and human service providers to develop more effective approaches to the care of older people in their communities. The consortium meeting brings together partners from across the state to foster networking, strengthen partnerships, and accomplish planning relative to the work of the center.

 

The Faculty Development Program in Health Literacy and Aging will address some of the most significant problems posed by low health literacy...for more see this article's continuation and also this webpage's section on Faculty Development in Health Literacy with detailed information on topics, syllabus, schedules, and materials.

Our Mission Statement

In North Carolina, we face tremendous challenges as a result of dramatic increases in our older adult population. To ensure the health and well-being of older adults today and in the foreseeable future, we must:

Augment the knowledge and skills of practicing professionals

Recruit greater numbers of students into careers in geriatrics

Rapidly disseminate new knowledge and best practices

Engage greater numbers of faculty in effective teaching of topics in geriatrics

Design creative and efficacious approaches to problems, such as health disparities and premature disablement.

The campus-community partnerships of the Carolina Geriatric Education Center are committed to improving the health of North Carolina’s older adults through geriatrics training, curriculum design and leadership development.

Community Partners
Piedmont Health Services, Mountain AHEC, Charlotte AHEC, Eastern AHEC, Wake AHEC, Northwest AHEC, and Greensboro AHEC

To Contact Us for Further Information

The Carolina Geriatric Education Center is administered through the Center for Aging and Health at the UNC-CH School of Medicine. Please contact Rebecca Hunter, MEd, if you want more information.

Rebecca Hunter, MEd
CGEC Associate Director for Program Development
Center for Aging and Health
UNC-CH School of Medicine
260 MacNider CB # 7550
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7550

Last updated 5/27/2008.