Occupational therapist Teepa Snow has made it her mission to show dementia in a positive light. “Dementia is a syndrome, not a single condition,” Teepa says. “It can be a primary or secondary issue, can happen at any age, and has many causes and forms.”
All trainees (fellows, postdocs, junior faculty, residents, research associates, etc.) interested in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are invited to attend the inaugural meeting of the ADRD IDEAS Forum to be held monthly by the Duke-UNC ADRC.
Tiffany Long, is a graduate of the UNC School of Medicine, recipient of the 2018 Salber-Phillips Award, and is a currently UNC Geriatric Fellow. Read about her journey into geriatrics.
In the United States, the geriatric population accounts for over half of all newly diagnosed cancers. As the US population ages, the number of people 65 and over being diagnosed with cancer will only increase. Because of this, oncology and geriatric medicine have a natural cross-pollination. In the years to come, this will become even … Read more
The NC TraCS Institute has awarded John A. Batsis, MD, and the Division of Geriatric Medicine a 1-year, team science grant to study the early detection of sarcopenia.
NC TraCS recently announced the recipients of new pilot grant awards, and five recipients are from the Department of Medicine, including Joshua Niznik, PharmD, PhD (Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine & Center for Aging and Health)
UNC’s Center for Aging and Health and the University of Louisville Trager’s two-year HRSA grant will fund “FlourishConnect’ which will create and deliver COVID-19-specific education and training to the nursing home workforce, residents, families, and caregivers.
The National Institute on Aging has awarded Shakira Grant, MBBS, and the UNC Center for Aging and Health a 2-year, $200,000 grant to study multiple myeloma.
Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded funds from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Duke-UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, a prestigious Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC).