Steve Fleming, President and CEO of Well∙Spring Life Care Retirement Community, shares his unique experiences in retirement community administration. Fleming also highlights new collaborative and research opportunities between Well∙Spring and our UNCG faculty and students. Please bring your own lunch to enjoy during the presentation. To attend, RSVP to gerontology@uncg.edu... Continue reading...

Health Risks that Double Disability for Older Americans with Diabetes: Results from a National Longitudinal Study by Sarah Laditke, PhD, UNC-Charlotte.

March 20, 2014 Gerontology Research Network (GRN) Lunch & Learn Compassionate Communication at End of Life presented by Christine Davis, PhD, of UNC-Charlotte. Agenda

GROWTH Lunch & Learn (PDF). Making Community Events Accessible to Older Adults presented by Betha Barba and Anita Tesh of the UNCG School of Nursing. Edwards Lounge, Stone Building, UNCG Older adults are a rapidly growing and important segment of the population because of their numbers, their accumulated wisdom and... Continue reading...

Wednesday January 21, 2015, GROWTH Lunch & Learn (PDF). Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Aging presented by Dianne Welsh, PhD, Hayes Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship at UNCG and Fulbright Distinguished Chair for Entrepreneurship in Central Europe

Wednesday, March 4, 2015, Continuing Care Retirement Communities: Patterns of Community. Edwards Lounge, Stone Building, UNCG presented by Julia Hahmann, PhD, Gerontology Program Visiting Scholar Dr. Dianne Welsh, Hayes Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship at UNCG and Fulbright Distinguished Chair for Entrepreneurship in Central Europe, explains the UNCG entrepreneurship program, then... Continue reading...

Music and Aging: Deadheads and other Babyboomers Rebecca Adams, PhD, UNCG Gerontology Program Director, has explored connections between music and identity since she taught research methods and social theory to sociology graduate students by taking them on tour with the Grateful Dead in the summer of 1989. Adams provides an... Continue reading...

Listening for Life: Hearing Health Care in Aging Populations Lisa Fox-Thomas, PhD, CCC-A is AP Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Coordinator of Audiology Services at the UNCG Speech and Hearing Center. She works with older adults who have hearing loss and hearing-related disorders such... Continue reading...

Rachael Wonderlin is Dementia Care Director with Blue Harbor Senior Living. She publishes a blog and advice website, Dementia By Day, and is in the process of publishing her first book with Johns Hopkins University Press — Dementia and Long-Term Care: What to Remember When They Forget. Currently working in... Continue reading...

Learning from Senior Welfare Policies of Seoul, South KoreaJaesam Yoon, Director of the Disability Welfare Policy Division of the Seoul, South Korea Metropolitan Government (SMG), is UNCG Gerontology Program Visiting Scholar for 2015-2017. South Korea represents one of the most rapidly aging populations on our planet — with those age... Continue reading...

Don’t Refer to Me as Old or Aging: Understanding Older Consumers Despite the dramatic rise in numbers of older consumers, there remains a lack of understanding of this promising consumer group. In this presentation, Dr. Jiyoung Hwang will discuss characteristics of older consumers, how best to approach this growing market,... Continue reading...