Sheps Center

Phil Sloane, a Sheps Center Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Sheps Center Program on Aging, Disability and Long Term Care, recently received the Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement, a 2015 University Teaching Award. “This award, created in 1997, acknowledges a lifetime of contributions to a broad range of teaching and learning, particularly mentoring… Read more »

Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-term Care Research Dental Hygienist, Patricia Poole, RDH, MS was awarded the 2014 Sunstar Award of Distinction on August 15th at the RDH Under One Roof conference in Chicago, IL.  Ms. Poole has partnered with Drs. Sloane and Zimmerman since 2010, and joined the Aging program in 2014.  More information… Read more »

The Toolkit for Person-Centeredness in Assisted Living was developed through a close partnership between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the national Center for Excellence in Assisted Living (CEAL), along with assisted living providers, residents, family members, and organizational representatives. Available for free download, the Toolkit includes questionnaires to be completed by assisted living residents and staff, and simple, easy-to-follow instructions for scoring and interpreting the results. The questionnaires measure Person-Centered Practices in Assisted Living, and are called the PC-PAL.

The members of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) – comprising nearly 6,000 researchers, educators, and practitioners, all dedicated to the field of aging – elected Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-term Care Co-Director, Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, to lead the Social Research, Policy, and Practice Section of GSA.  Dr. Zimmerman will take office during GSA’s… Read more »

A new research study published in this month’s issue of Health Affairs finds that assisted living communities are a primary provider of residential care for older adults with dementia and that an estimated 7 out of 10 adults living in these settings have some form of cognitive impairment.  Sheryl Zimmerman, Philip Sloane, and David Reed… Read more »

The Assisted Living Comparison Experts website www.alce.unc.edu is featured as UNC’s Spotlight Story.  Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-term Care co-directors Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD and Philip Sloane, MD, MPH were interviewed about their website, which provides information on all licensed adult and family care settings in North Carolina in a user-friendly format, and is designed… Read more »

The Mouth Care Without a Battle training program and DVD will be distributed to all North Carolina community colleges through a collaboration with the North Carolina Foundation for Advanced Health Programs.  Mouth Care Without a Battle is an evidence-based approach to person-centered daily mouth care for persons with cognitive and physical impairment.  Philip Sloane, MD,… Read more »

Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-term Care researchers Sheryl Zimmerman, Lauren Cohen, David Reed, and Philip Sloane were awarded the 2013 Prudential Real Estate Investors Award for Outstanding Research Paper for their article Families Matter in Long-Term Care: Results of a Group-Randomized Trial published in the 2013 issue of Seniors Housing and Care.   The award… Read more »

The September issue of Carolina Woman magazine includes an article reviewing the many types of residential care and assisted living options available to consumers, and highlights Sheryl Zimmerman and Phil Sloane’s Assisted Living Comparison Experts website as one helpful resource in choosing among them. http://www.carolinawoman.com/articles.php

Assisted Living Comparison Experts provides information on all licensed adult and family care settings in North Carolina in a user-friendly format.