From the National Resource Center on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Aging:

March 31, 2005: Biweekly Highlights
This notice provides announcements and links to new nutrition and aging information.

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  Of Special Interest

• White House Conference on Aging Delegate Selection by Governors, Members of Congress and the National Congress of American Indians: April 15, 2005 Deadline.

• Administration on Aging partners with American Public Health Association for National Public Health Week 2005, April 4 – 10, 2005. Reach older adults and family caregivers to promote preventive actions to keep them strong and healthy throughout their later years.

• Administration on Aging Announces You Can! Program Champions; 2005 Joint Conference of American Society on Aging and National Council on Aging.

• The National Center for Health Statistics: new Aging Trend report "Trends in Prescribed Medicine Use and Spending by Older Americans, 1992-2001.

• Obesity threatens to cut U.S. life expectancy, new analysis suggests. USDHHS National Institute of Aging.

• Proposals now being accepted for Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program; ERS's Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP). 2005 priority research areas: strengthening economic incentives in food assistance programs; food assistance as a safety net; and food choices, diet quality, obesity, and health outcomes.

• Waiting for Dinner: Elderly on the Waiting Lists for Home Delivered Meals. Nutritional implications of the growing number of older adults waiting for home delivered meals. University North Carolina.

• Institute for Health and Aging's; And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life. Examines how hospitalization has affected the dying process, case reports-stories of dying that read as small dramas of everyday life.
   

Resources and Web links

• The Commonwealth Fund: Demography is not Destiny, Revisited. Framework and basic data to understand why the future of the U.S. will not be determined solely by anticipated changes in size and age distribution of population.

• NHLBI Cookbooks:
• Keep The Beat: Heart Healthy Recipes plus nutrition information. For consumers.

• Delicious Heart Healthy Latino Recipes. For consumers. .

• Heart Healthy Home Cooking African American Style. For consumers.
  
• NIH, NIDDK, FDA and Federal Consumer Information Center information about excessive weight and solutions for losing weight.

Research and Reports

• Aldana SG, Greenlaw RL, Diehl HA, Salberg A, Merrill RM, Ohmine S,Thomas C. Effects of an intensive diet and physical activity modification program on the health risks of adults. J Am Diet Assoc. 2005;105:3:371.

• Braun KL, Cheang M, Shigeta D. Increasing knowledge, skills, and empathy among direct care workers in elder care: A preliminary study of an active-learning mode. Gerontologist 2005; 45:118-124.

• Castle NG, Lowe TJ. Report cards and nursing homes. Gerontologist. 2005;45:48-67.

• Davison J, Bond J, Dawson P, Steen IN, Kenny RA. Patients with recurrent falls attending Accident & Emergency benefit from multifactorial intervention—a randomised controlled trial. Age and Ageing.2005;34(2):162-168.

• de la Monte SM, Wands JR. Review of insulin and insulin-like growth factor expression, signaling, and malfunction in the central nervous system: Relevance to Alzheimer's disease. J Alzheimers Disease. 2005;7:1:45-61.

• Engelman HM, Alekel DL, Hanson LN, Kanthasamy AG, Reddy MB. Blood lipid and oxidative stress responses to soy protein with isoflavones and phytic acid in postmenopausal women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005; 81:3: 590-596.

• Fukunaga A, Uematsu H, Sugimoto K. Influences of aging on taste perception and oral somatic sensation. J Gerontol A: Biol Sci Med Sci. 2005;60:109-113.

• Herd P. Ensuring a minimum: Social security reform and women. Gerontologist. 2005;45:12-25.

• Khouzam HR, Battista MA, Emes R, Ahles S. Psychoses in late life: Evaluation and management of disorders seen in primary care. Geriatrics. 2005;60:3:26-33.

• Luo Y, Waite LJ. The impact of childhood and adult SES on physical, mental, and cognitive well-being in later life. J Gerontol B: Psychol Sci Soc Sci.2005;60:S93-S101.

• Riediger M, Freund AM, Baltes PB. Managing life through personal goals: Intergoal facilitation and intensity of goal pursuit in younger and older adulthood. J Gerontol B: Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2005;60:P84-P91.

• Sarazin M, SternY, Berr C, Riba A, Albert M, Brandt J, Dubois B. Neuropsychological predictors of dependency in patients with Alzheimer disease. Neurology. 2005;64:1027-1031.

• Sherwood PR, Given CW, Given BA, von Eye A. Caregiver burden and depressive symptoms: Analysis of common outcomes in caregivers of elderly patients. J Aging Health. 2005;17: 2:125-147.

• Steen E, Terry BM, Rivera EJ, Cannon JL, Neely TR, Tavares R, Xu XJ, Wands JR, de la Monte SM. Impaired insulin and insulin-like growth factor expression and signaling mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease---is this type 3 diabetes? J Alzheimers Disease. 2005;7:1:63-80.

• Vacanti LJ, Negrão CE, Sposito AC. Hypercholesterolaemia is associated with an exaggerated elevation in blood pressure during exercise in very elderly subjects. Age Ageing. 2005;34:182-184.

 

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