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HEY! ARE YOU SEARCHING FOR INTERNSHIP PLACEMENT IDEAS?

2008-06-30T14:26:47Z

Looking for a place to do your internship? Then, maby you want to stick to the tried and true...
The attachment is a list of internship placements made from Fall 1999 thru Fall 2007. All of these places would love to have another intern, or so they tell me... :)
DrT
K. Whisnant Turner, Ph.D.
Director of the Institute for Mediation in Aging

MEDICARE PAYMENTS

2008-06-29T21:48:06Z

[link]

Sunday, Jun 29, 2008
Posted on Sun, Jun. 29, 2008

Cut in reimbursements may make doctors shun Medicare

By ALIZA MARCUS
Bloomberg News
James King, a doctor in Selmer, Tenn., doesn’t take new Medicare
patients. More physicians may do the same if Congress can’t find a way

Aging articles.

2008-06-25T19:28:24Z

There are some grezat articles re: aging, especially one on brain
injury after falls on Reuters.com/health news. These werre posted on
6-23-08.
Interesting reads
Gayla

GREEN HOUSES in WALL STREET JOURNAL

2008-06-24T14:32:53Z

Here is an article that ran on the front page of the Wall Street
Journal this morning.

HOME REMEDY
Rising Challenger Takes On Elder-Care System

[link]

Short video on article
[link]

IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT AGER INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS

2008-06-24T13:38:05Z

...
Hello Everyone!
For those of you who register for internship placements for the summer or fall of this year or spring or summer of next year, there are three very important training sessions offered during this summer and fall: These training sessions are sponsored by the North Central Texas Area Agency on Aging and they are designed to include AGER Student Interns in the training and the hours for the training are to be counted as internship hours. Everyone who does an internship must take Benefits Counselor training, no exceptions

Another step closer to rejuvenation treatments

2008-06-20T04:03:00Z

From Daniela Tsvetkova
Another step closer to rejuvenation treatments
BBC NEWS Thursday, 19 June 2008
*Scientists have found a way to give old, tired muscles a new lease of life.
*
[link]

Re: Memory Walk

2008-06-18T04:36:16Z

Hey everyone,

Just signed up myself. It is very easy, lot of great tools to help us
raise money for a cause near to all our hearts.

Let's ROCK this walk with UNT students and donation.

Re: Memory Walk

2008-06-16T23:49:41Z

Okay guys!!
I set up our website page and we are now officially a Memory Walk
team. Go to the link below and register yourself as part of the
team. The walk is scheduled for October 4th of this year. If we can
start getting donations set up, then we should be able to raise plenty
of money for the cause.

Re: Memory Walk

2008-06-13T21:27:04Z

I'll give it my best shot.
Gayla

RISE IN LIFE EXPECTANCY

2008-06-12T15:54:40Z

Fort Worth Star-Telegram 06-12-08 [link]

U.S. life expectancy rises past 78 years for first time

By MIKE STOBBE
The Associated Press
ATLANTA -- For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78
years, the government reported Wednesday, although the United States

Re: Memory Walk

2008-06-12T13:24:03Z

Greetings Abbie. A few years ago ('04, '05 and maybe '06) the GSA
participated in the Memory Walk (Our Phyllis was our biggest
fundraiser) in Denton, we stopped when they moved it out of Denton.
...dec

Re: Memory Walk

2008-06-12T13:00:58Z

Alzheimer's Association Memory Walks have usually been held in the
Fall. Phyllis E.
has acted as team leader in the past for Memory Walks and if memory
serves me well
did a spectacular job... you may want to pick her brain a bit. It's
simple to put a team
together with online teams giving us the ability to watch our

Re: Memory Walk

2008-06-11T20:35:17Z

I think that would be a great idea. Would be great to get it started
and watch it grow. It would also be good exposure for UNT and our
department, great exposure for the department.

We need to have a business meeting soon anyway. I am hoping the first
to mid July. I personally have got to get out of Summer I before I

Memory Walk

2008-06-11T19:53:35Z

Hey all!

What if we were to do an organized Memory Walk for the Alzheimer's
Association? Does any one have experience with this?? We could do
this and get our family and friends involved. I looked on the
Alzheimer's Association website and there is currently no Memory Walk
scheduled in Denton. Roy would you be interested in helping me get

SEMINARS THIS SUMMER

2008-06-08T19:00:54Z

My message thing is acting really badly. Someone asked the question
about what seminar this summer, but now I cannot see the message.

There is a couple that I know about locally this summer

Tarrant Area Gerontological Society - July 29 - [link]

Tarrant Association of Homes and Services for the Aging – June 24th –