Joint Aging Conference: ASA and NCOA
Penn Nursing Presenters Lois Evans, DNSc, FAAN, RN and Rebecca Snyder Phillips, MSN, RN, will be presenting at the joint Conference of the American Society on Aging (ASA) and the National Council on the Aging (NCOA) at Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, March 10-13.

GRANT NEWS! The following three grants have been awarded to School of Nursing HCGNE faculty:
Dr. Mary Naylor - The Commonwealth Fund, Program on Health Care Quality Improvement - a grant in support of coordinating care between hospital and home: translating research into practice, phase 2. Dr. Julie Sochalski - The Commonwealth Fund, Program on Medicare's Future - a grant in support of improving quality and efficiency: a coordinated care benefit for Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. Dr. Norma Cuellar - Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation, Minority Junior Faculty Award - a grant in support of her project on the use of alternative medicine for the sleep disorder Restless Leg Syndrome.

Christine Bradway, PhD, CRNP Assistant Professor of Gerontological Nursing, will present "Using Narrative Analysis to Develop a Cultural Model for Long-Term, Female Urinary Incontinence" at the Sylvan M. Cohen Annual Retreat, Poster Session on Aging, June 8, 2005.

Fourth Annual UPHS Oncology Nursing Research Symposium, Tuesday, June 7, 2005, University of Pennsylvania, Biomedical Research Building, 421 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia PA. For more information, please download a flier
RSVP by May 19, 2005 to ostermam@pahosp.com

Conference on the Health of Urban Elderly in the Next Decade
Honoring the vision of M. Powell Lawton, the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging has brought together speakers representing clinical practice, health care organizations, research, the insurance industry and government to discuss trends in the health status of older adults and the future of programs and services to provide care for older persons. Dr. Neville Strumpf was chair and respondent for the morning session of this conference. Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10am - 5pm
The Downtown Club Atop the Public Ledger Building, 6th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA

>>> Registration Form and Conference Schedule

Call for Posters: The University of Pennsylvania Institute on Aging invites Institute on Aging Fellows, University of Pennsylvania faculty, and others associated with the University of Pennsylvania to display and discuss their research and educational activities in the field of aging at the
Sylvan M. Cohen Annual Retreat with Poster Session on Aging
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street , Philadelphia , PA 19104
To submit your poster, visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/aging/retreatregis_p.shtml

The Third Pan-Pacific Nursing Conference and The Fifth Hong Kong Nursing Symposium on Cancer Care will be held in Hong Kong on November 11-12, 2005. Dr. Sarah Kagan will be a keynote speaker at the conference. The abstract submission deadline is March 31, 2005.

Sarah Kagan Awarded 2004 Carol Hogue Distinguished Lectureship
Sarah Kagan, PhD, RN, was "calling on nurses to take up leadership to reenvision, reimagine and act in a different way to understand what it is to be old in our society.” Kagan's 2004 Carol Hogue Distinguished Lecture, titled “What’s Wrong with This Picture? Nurses’ Influence on Being Old and Ill in America,” was part of a new visiting professorship in geriatric nursing program established by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University schools of nursing. >>> more

Dr. Kagan's entire presentation can be viewed online:

• Introductions, Beginning of talk   (~18 minutes)Dr. Kagan's talk  (~18 minutes)Dr. Kagan's talk continues  (~18 minutes) End of talk, Beginning of questions   (~18 minutes)
• End of questions, Close of talk  (~10.5 minutes)

Penn Nursing at 2004 GSA (Washington, DC)
Penn Nursing again sent a large contingent to the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). These geroscholars presented an impressive number of papers and posters to disseminate their latest research. GSA is the oldest and largest national multidisciplinary scientific organization devoted to the advancement of gerontological research. We have compiled a list of GSA presentations by Penn HCGNE Faculty, Associated Faculty, Practice Affiliates, and Gero Students -- available in PDF -- and a photo gallery which features many of our gero students.

GSA Photo Gallery

Presentation List

HCGNE Faculty Selected to Speak at Penn Inaugural Celebration

Two HCGNE faculty members have been selected to participate in President Amy Gutmann's Inaugural Symposium. Dr. Sarah Kagan, participated in the session, titled, "Educating Professionals as Engaged Citizens," and Dr. Mary Naylor lectured on, "Improving Our Lives by Investing in Science and Technology." >>> more

• Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Advance Directives and Events at the End-of-Life (Penn)
  Neville E. Strumpf, PhD, RN, C, FAAN, Cheryl Monturo, MSN, APRN, BCHospice Workers’ Attitudes Towards Voluntary Refusal of Food and Fluids (Oregon)
  Theresa A. Harvath, PhD, RN, CNS A Model Hospice (UCSF)
  Jeanie Kayser-Jones, RN, PhD, FAAN, Alison Kris, RN, PhD, Diane L. Norcio, RN, MS, MPH, GNP Developing Care Delivery Models using a Community Partnership Approach (Arkansas)
  Claudia Jean Beverly, RN, PhD, FAAN, David A. Lipschitz, MD, PhD, Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA, Robin McAtee, RN, MHSA, Gwynn V. Davis, MNSc, RN
• Innovative Nurse Models for Care of Persons with Dementia (Iowa)
  Janet K. Pringle Specht, PhD, RN, FAAN, Meridean L. Maas, RN, PhD, FAAN

The other event is a Community Orientation to be held at PCA on July 20, 2004. It is geared toward Social Workers and Nurses; the training and information session will provide a detailed breakdown of PCA's Care at Home programs and services, and will also highlight specific areas within PCA
Community Living Option's Department: Nursing Home Transition program and Long Term Care's: Safety and Medication use in the elderly.

Both events are sponsored by PCA, however, the Nursing contact hours and Continuing Education Credits are being awarded by the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work and the School of Nursing.

Carol Johnson, art therapist at LIFE, has been notified that art works submitted by LIFE members have been selected for a national exhibit "Art in the Senate: Exhibition of Art by Older Americans" sponsored by the American Art Therapy Association. The exhibit took place at the Russell State Rotunda at the Capitol in Washington, DC, June 13-20, 2004. This is very exciting for the LIFE members who participated in this event as part of "Aging Well, Living Well" for Older Americans Month in May. Congratulations to Carol and all the artists!
>>> Visit: /news/pdf/Life.ppt - a power point presentation, featuring award-winning LIFE Art.