Current
students of
the UNCG Gerontology Program are effecting change!
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Mike
Morrison is
currently a student in the MS Gerontology – MBA duel degree program. He is working for
Bell Senior Living, a division of Steven D. Bell & Company in Greensboro,
NC, as a financial analyst.
Mike began an internship with Bell
Senior Living in May of 2008 tasked with researching
cognitive exercise
programs
for
memory care residents. His major project for his internship was
coordinating the construction of 23 websites, one for each of Bell’s
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Christina Shaffer is an occupational therapist for the Moses
Cone Health System whose professional work centers around helping
adults return to their daily routines after illness or injury. She
has
particular interests in encouraging safe environments and behaviors
among older adults including older drivers. For her major project at
her first internship for SAFE Guilford, a community injury preventin
coalition, she developed a fall prevention program to promote
the effective distribution of adaptive equipment to those at risk
to fall.
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Burgin Ross is a registered dietician who consults with continuing
care
retirement communities and hospice programs. She came into the
Gerontology Program originally to pursue a certificate as a part of
continuing professional development for her RD. A former Peace Corps
volunteer, however, she became so interested in the cross-cultural
aspects of aging that she decided to not only pursue an MS but also
a
research track that would lead to a thesis on the oral histories of
elderly Montagnards who have relocated to the Piedmont of North
Carolina.
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Alicia Blater came to North Carolina after work in marketing and
public relations with a major health system in the Rocky Moutains.
While
pursuing her MS in Gerontology and certificate in Nonprofit Management,
she has been a part of a groundbreaking project to help seniors prepare
for disasters via the Triangle J Area Agency on Aging and United Way
of
the Triangle. Posters featuring her work have been displayed at the
2007 North Carolina Conference on Aging and the Southern Gerontological
Society. See Blater's
"Disaster Preparedness Guide".
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For Margaret Rakestraw her first internship at the Adult
Centers for
Enrichment in Greensboro led to a development and marketing postion
with that agency. Adult day services has become a strong area of
interest for Margaret. For her second internship with the Adult Day
Services assocition in North Carolina, she is developing training
materials and formats for adult day workers as well as co-authoring
grant proposals seeking funding to support such initiatives.
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UNCG
Gerontology Program students,
tell us what you're up to
and we'll be pleased
to highlight your gerontology-related accomplishment's here!
E-mail acstring@uncg.edu
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