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INTERNATIONAL CENTER ON GLOBAL AGING

NCSSS Graduate Student, Julie Brooks Noble, Awarded the NCSSS Center on Global Aging's Best Aging Paper Award

Julie Brooks Noble was awarded the NCSSS Center on Global Aging's Best Aging Paper Award for her foundation year paper, Attachment Processes in Nursing Facilities that Provide Dementia Care to Older Adults. Ms. Noble's paper was selected by the Center on Global Aging's Board of Advisors for its scholarly approach to a broad range of attachment issues facing nursing facility residents with dementia, their family and their professional caregivers. The inaugural Best Aging Paper Award was presented at the Center on Global Aging's Biennial Bill Bechill Memorial Lecture, which was held on October 7, 2010.

The Center on Global Aging is one of six research centers at NCSSS. It was founded in 1996 and will celebrate its 15th Anniversary in October  2011 with the Biennial Daniel Thursz Memorial Lecture, honoring the memory of its founder. An announcement and criteria for submitting papers for the 2011 Best Aging Paper Awards is forthcoming. The paper contest is open to NCSSS undergraduates, foundation and advanced year graduate students. For further information, contact Dr. Barbara Soniat.
 

HISTORY

Established in 1996 by the late Daniel Thursz, a globally recognized leader in the aging field, the International Center on Global Aging (ICGA) exists to improve the lives of older people by increasing the knowledge, skills and abilities of the people who serve and make policy for them, and of older persons themselves. ICGA provides opportunities for the direct exchange of ideas and information and supports comparative studies of aging policies and programs from diverse social, cultural and political perspectives. The Center supports international visitors who come to the United States to study aging, conducts conferences and seminars and provides training on aging.

ICGA's Certificate in Aging Program, which provides a multi - disciplinary, multicultural set of courses on aging, is targeted especially to professionals working in the field of aging, to those who make policy for older people, and to those whose work with the general public includes large numbers of older persons. In addition to offering the program at CUA, the program uses video tape and email to train students around the world as well as in other parts of the United States.