Category: News

The lead story in Secretary of State Elaine Marshall’s December Newsletter highlights Dr. Jan Busby-Whitehead’s presentation to more than 50 health care providers on the Financial Abuse of Older Adults. Clinicians were encouraged to open dialogue with patients about financial matters gently using the Clinician’s Pocket Guide on Elder Investment...

Dr. Tiffany Shubert of the CGEC provided training on Falls Prevention and the Otago Exercise Program to the newly formed Dare County Falls Prevention Coalition. See the press release here.

The Carolina Geriatric Education Center worked closely with the NC Division of Public Health, NC Division of Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities/Substance Abuse Services, and the UNC School of Nursing to hold four regional seminars across the state in Spring 2013 to: Share up-to-date information regarding older adults with mental health and...

Last month RE-AIM.org set up a poll to vote on the top conceptual, review, and original research articles of 2012. From the 43 publications they included, the CGEC’s principal investigator Dr. Jan Busby-Whitehead and Tiffany Shubert, PhD won an award! In the top review article category, Shubert et al’s paper,...

Thirteen diverse professionals from across the state have been selected for The 2013 Faculty Development in Health Literacy and Aging course set to begin January 25th. Scholars include educators, nursing faculty, social workers and primary care providers. The course teaches enhanced communication skills to address patients who have low health...

Ellen Schneider has been accepted as a faculty member (presenter) at the ASA 2013 Aging in America Conference in Chicago on March 12-16, 2013. Congratulations Ellen!!

Congratulations to Tiffany Shubert, PT, PhD on behalf of the North Carolina Physical Therapy Association for being selected as one of the the three 2012 recipients of the chapter’s Excellence in Clinical Practice Award. Dr. Shubert was presented with an award and honored for the contributions she has made to...

News: Diseases of Aging map to a few ‘hotspots’ on the human genome

Texas A&M, UNC receive CDC funding for Policies, Programs, and Partners for Fall Prevention Project-News Release

The CGEC hosted a webinar this week for Falls Prevention Awareness Week sharing tips, challenges and successes in building Falls Prevention Coalitions featuring Rebecca Chaplin of the Western North Carolina Falls Prevention Coalition and Leigha Shepler of Guilford County Falls Prevention Coalition. Over 30 aging professionals attended.