Martin Andersen, UNCG Assistant Professor of Economics, joins the UNCG Gerontology Research, Outreach, Workforce, & Teaching Hub (GROWTH). Dr. Andersen’s research interests include: • Medicaid and Insurance Coverage among the Elderly • Effects of Benefit Design in the Medicare Part D Program on Drug Utilization, Choice, and Health Outcomes, and… Continue reading…
Plan NOW to identify two (2) UNCG graduate and undergraduate teams to participate in a statewide entrepreneurship conference in Greensboro next February. Each participating team will be asked to identify a compelling community need that is not being addressed satisfactorily, and a strategy to address it. Teams will test that… Continue reading…
2015 Greensboro Walk to End Alzheimer’s Saturday, September 19, 2015 Center City Park Greensboro, NC 27401 Registration at 9am Ceremony at 10am Walk at 10:15am Route Length: 2 miles Sign up as a team or an individual at: http://act.alz.org/site/TR/Walk2015/NC-WesternCarolina?fr_id=7631&pg=entry
UNCG Dept. of Psychology PhD student, Megan Jordano, seeks local (Triad NC) volunteers for a research study — Cognitive Aging in Healthy Older Adults. Information about this important local study, plus Megan Jordano’s contact information, is provided below. “In order to conduct this research we maintain a database of healthy,… Continue reading…
The UNCG Gerontology Program congratulates Gordon Bennett, PhD, following his extensive career at UNCG and now his retirement. In years past, Bennett was involved with the UNCG Gerontology Program and his grant from the Economic Development Administration studied the economic impact of retirees on non-metropolitan counties along the South Atlantic… Continue reading…
Friendship & Happiness in the Third Age — a chapter within the hot-off-the-press book Friendship and Happiness across the Life-Span and Cultures (Springer, 2015), is authored jointly by Dr. Rebecca Adams, Director of the UNCG Gerontology Program, and UNCG Gerontology alumna Emily Taylor, MS/MBA. Read about this new book, purchase… Continue reading…
Susan Webster conducted two research projects while working toward a Gerontology certificate and an MFA in Interior Architecture at UNCG. She presented both of these projects at the Graduate Research and Creativity Expo at UNCG and the Interior Design Educators’ Council (IDEC) Regional Conference. The Expo, which took place on… Continue reading…
UNCG Gerontology Program visiting Assistant Professor, Julia Hahmann, PhD presented “Older adults’ concepts of fictive kin in Germany” at a Forum hosted by the Virginia Tech Center for Gerontology on January 30, 2015. Dr. Hahmann’s research focuses on sociology of the family with special interest in the role of friendship… Continue reading…
UNCG Gerontology Program Associate Professor Jan Wassel, PhD, presents “The Phenomenal Aspects of Growing Older” at a half-day conference Forging Ahead for People Age 50 and Older at the NC State McKimmon Center, March 14, 2015.
UNCG Gerontology Program alumni Trish Davis, M.S. 2014, is Membership Co-Chairperson for the NC Culture Change Coalition. The North Carolina Culture Change Coalition includes individuals from all backgrounds, including profit and non-profit nursing care centers and trade associations, assisted living centers and retirements communities, state and local regulators, horticultural specialists,… Continue reading…
