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UHM Gerontology Student Wins $500 Scholarship (2000)

Bailey Barash, a CNN reporter on sabbatical from Atlanta, Georgia, studying gerontology at the Center on Aging at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has won a $500 scholarship in the 2000 GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE Award competition. Under the auspices of the State's Executive Office on Aging, Barash designed and developed two educational videos, Kupuna Care, and Sage Watch. Kupuna Care is used by the Executive Office on Aging to describe the state's eldercare program and its impacts on older residents. Sage Watch is an educational piece used in presentations and training workshops to trigger discussions on Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Marilyn R. Seely, Director of the Executive Office on Aging, called Barash's videos, "extremely useful for informing policymakers of Hawaii's elder needs." Seely said that in Hawaii, "elder care is of special concern because the growth rate of the elder population is about three times the national average." The GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE award was established in 1994 within the UH Manoa College of Social Sciences to stimulate and encourage scholarly work in aging. The UHM writers and co-producers of the nationally acclaimed PBS television series and gerontology telecourse, GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE, Joan Dubanoski, Rebecca Goodman, Kathryn Braun, and Ellen Roberts, established the award to honor individuals who have demonstrated excellence in scholarly work with relevance to the wider field of aging. The scholarship competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in the University of Hawai'i system. Students must be nominated by a faculty member of community professional in the field of aging. Previous award winners include UHM graduate students Hui-I Chen Su; Jeri Seu; Jane King; Caryn Fujitani; and Carrie Takenaka.

UH Student Wins $500 Gerontology Award (1996)

Hui-I Chen Su, a graduate student at the Center on Aging in the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa School of Public Health, won top honors in the 1996 Growing Old in a new Age competition. Su developed a computerized risk-management reporting system for long-term care facilities titled The Computerization of Risk Management: The Development of "Long Term Care Events" -- a Computerized Incident-Reporting System for Maluhia Long Term Care Health Center. She created the customized incident-reporting system as part of an interdisciplinary field study to improve the existing record-keeping and reporting methods for the Maluhia Long Term Care Health Center in Honolulu. Judges described Su’s project as an "effective tool for preventing, controlling, and monitoring risk exposure in long-term care settings" and praised its "scholarly content, relevance to the wider field of aging, and evidence of innovative, creative application of knowledge."

Four UH Students Win $500 Award for Producing Elder Caregiving Video (1994)

Four University of Hawai‘i at Manoa graduate students have won top honors and a $500 award in the 1994 Growing Old in a New Age competition for their creation of a video and brochure to help elder caregivers in Hawai‘i. Caryn Fujitani, Jeri Seu, Carrie Takenaka, and Jane King produced the 16-minute videotape, Caregiving in Hawai‘i: Taking Care of Someone You Love Means Taking Care of Yourself, as part of their graduate studies in the School of Public Health at UH-Manoa. The award-winning video combines frank advice from real-life caregivers with a story of one family’s caregiving dilemmas portrayed by local actors. Judges called the students’ video "an appealing, effective tool for reaching Hawai‘i’s family caregivers."