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Date: Nov. 7, 2002
LITTLE ROCK - A renowned
researcher on aging and dementia will speak at a free seminar for
the public and health care professionals Tuesday, Nov. 12, noon -
1 p.m., at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
in Little Rock.
Dr. Jeffrey Kaye will explain
"Brain Aging in the Oldest Old." Kaye is a professor of
neurology and director of the Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
Center at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
The seminar will be open to all
health care professionals, researchers and students, as well as
the general public. The first 60 people to arrive at the seminar
will receive free lunches. Preregistration is not required; call
(501) 603-1294 for more information.
The seminar will be in Sam Walton
Auditorium in the Arkansas Cancer Research Center, Capitol and Elm
streets on the UAMS campus. Parking will be available in the
adjacent Outpatient Parking Deck.
Kaye has focused his research over
the past decade on the "half-full" portion of the aging
glass, or why some individuals remain protected from dementia at
advanced ages while others succumb much earlier. Kaye has based
his studies on the fastest-growing segment of the population -
people who are 85 and older, the so-called "oldest old."
The seminar has been approved for
up to one hour of continuing education credit in Category 1 of the
American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award and
in the Arkansas Nursing Home Administrator Licensure Program.
Sponsors of the seminar are the UAMS Alzheimer's Disease Center,
the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics and the Donald W.
Reynolds Center on Aging at UAMS, and the Alzheimer's Arkansas
Programs and Services.
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Contact:
Leslie W. Taylor
501-686-8998
Wireless phone: 501-951-7260
leslie@uams.edu
Elizabeth F. Shores
501-686-8394
ShoresElizabethF@uams.edu
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