Conference Set To Examine
Emotional Problems of Elderly
DR. KAREL BOBATH AND BERTHA BOBATH
Specialists Demonstrate Method
Of Treating Brain-injured Patient
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described the Bobaths as "a team
who have been leaders in changing
the whole focus of care of
brain-injured patients. They are
pioneers in the treatment of
neurological patients.”
Bartlett has been personally
involved with the Bobaths since 1957
and has seen their theories of
treatment gain acceptance during
this lime, he said.
He pointed out that the Bobaths
have lectured “from one end of the
world to the other,” and have made
yearly lecture tours to the United
States for a number of years.
Widely Sought After
”We are really fortunate to have
them here,” Bartlett said. "They are
well sought after, and have to turn
down many offers just because of
time limitations. To my knowledge,
this is the first time they have
lectured in the Southeast.”
Bartlett has helped coordinate
their visits to this country in the
past.
The Bobaths operate a treatment
center in London and have
published numerous articles, both
mdividually and jointly. A hmited
number of books describing their
method of treatment will be available
at the seminar.
Included in the program will be
lectures on neurophysiology and
pathology of postural control,
principles of treatment, problems of
spasticity, and the neurological and
physiological bases for treatment.
The three-day program will utilize
closed-circuit television to give the
audience a close view of the patient
demonstrations.
Duke's Center for the Study of
Aging and Human Development will
sponsor a seminar entitled
"Management of Emotional
Problems in Late Life” on Saturday,
June 25.
The purpose of the seminar,
according to Dorothy K. Heyman,
executive secretary of the center, is
”to inform internists, psychiatrists,
family practitioners and other
health-care professionals on the best
current information related to the
physical and mental processes of the
elderly.”
The conference will include
practical considerations which
physicians and other therapists
encounter in dealing with
depression, paranoia and organic
brain syndrome, she said.
Family practitioners can earn
continuing education credits from
the American Academy of Family
Practitioners for participating, she
added.
Speakers will be:
— Dr. Murray Raskin, director of
the Geriatric Research Education and
Clinical Center at American Lake
Veterans Administration Hospital in
Seattle and assistant professor of
psychiatry at the University of
Washington.
— Dr. Dan G. Blazer, assistant
professor of psychiatry and associate
director for programs at Duke's
Center for the Study of Aging.
— Dr. George L. Maddox,
professor of sociology and director of
the aging center.
The seminar, supported in part by
a grant from Sandoz
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., will be held in
Room 143 of the Edwin L. Jones
Building. A $25 registration fee will
be charged each participant.
More information is available at
684-3654.
Radiology Appoints
Porter Administrator
F.R. (Eric) Porter has been
appointed technical administrator in
the Diagnostic Division of the
Department of Radiology, Dr.
Charles E. Putman, professor and
chairman of the department, has
announced.
"Mr. Porter has worked quite
effectively in the capacity as acting
technical adnunistrator for the past
four months and I feel quite
confident that this direction will
continue," Putman said.
A graduate of Duke's Radiologic
Technologist Program, Porter has
worked in the Division of Diagnostic
Radiology since 1961. He has been
chief technologist for the past nine
years.
Fellowship To Support Primary Care Study
Janet Gay Gelein, assistant
professor in the School of Nursing,
has been selected to receive one of
the first 20 fellowships in a new
program intended to increase the
number of faculty qualified to teach
clinical primary care.
With financial support from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Gelein will spend the 1977-78
academic year at the University of
Rochester, where she will develop
teaching, clinical and research skills
in primary care.
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JANET GAY GELEIN
"By increasing the number of
faculty with these qualifications, it is
hoped the fellowships program will
increase the number of nursing
schools offering clinical primary care
training to produce what are
frequently called nurse
practitioners," said Dr. Ingeborg
Mauksch, who directs the
fellowships program.
Specially Trained Nurses
"These specially trained nurses
now represent only a small
percentage of nurses, but they have
shown that — practicing jointly with
physicians — they can assume
responsibility for a major share of
patients seen in practices offering
general medical services," said
Mauksch, who is Valere Potter
Distinguished Professor of Nursing
and a family nurse practitioner at
Vanderbilt Uruversity.
"Nurse practitioners assess the
health status of patients, develop
plans for nursing care, diagnose and
treat common minor illnesses,
manage stable chronic illness,
deliver preventive care and counsel
patients on psychosocial and health
problems,” she said.
The fellows were selected from
among applicants on the faculty of
nursing schools which have National
League for Nursing-accredited
master's degree programs and the
potential to build clinical primary
care into the curricula.
Gelein's Background
On the Duke faculty since 1970,
Gelein received her bachelor of
science in nursing degree from the
University of Wisconsin and her
master's in nursing from Duke.
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation has allocated $3 million
to the program for a three-year
period. Fellows receive financial
support equal to their current faculty
salaries and benefits, up to $25,000.
Schools selected as training sites
already have established nurse
practitioner training programs.
AMERICAN MONEY
"American Money and Banking in
Retrospect," an exhibit in honor of
the 1977 Alumni Summer Institute, is
on display in the gallery of the
Perkins Library.
Featured are varieties of 18th and
19th century currency; broadsides of
the ante bellum and post bellum
periods from North Carolina and
other states; and an 1869-71 ledger
from the Bank of Savaimah open to
the account of Confederate General
Joseph E. Johnston.
In one case are manuscript
workbooks on "ciphering", as
arithmetic was called. These
belonged to students of 1761, 1801,
1818, and 1830.
The exhibit will be shown through
June. It was planned and mounted
by William Ewin of the Manuscript
Department.