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The Red and Black • Tuesday, March 13, 1990 • 3
Centenarians studied
The Associated Press
ATHENS, Ga. — A team of re
searchers from the University of
Georgia plans to study Georgia’s
oldest residents — those 100
years old or older — to learn if
their eating habits play a role in
their longevity.
"Our theory is that if these
people are 100 years old and still
independent or semi-indepen
dent they must have a relatively
ood diet,” said Mary Ann
ohnson, a nutrition researcher
with the university’s Experiment
Station in Athens.
Johnson said a goal of the
study is to find out why those el
derly people have good diets.
"Is it friends, neighbors,
church suppers, a close proximity
to grocery stores or services such
as Meals on Wheels?" she asked.
The nutrition study is a part of
a larger research project called
the Georgia Centenarian Study,
which focuses on the physical and
mental health of those Georgians
85 to 100 years old.
Researchers from the univer
sity and the Medical College of
Georgia in Augusta hope to learn
how these older people cope with
diet, housing and other stresses
associated with old age. The
study is funded by the National
Institutes of Mental Health.
Johnson is surveying centena
rians about their dietary habits
using daily records and a ques
tionnaire.
“Living to be this old is a selec
tive process," she said. “We try to
find out whether these centena
rians seek ways to live longer —
whether it has been a conscious
effort on their part."
One part of the questionnaire
asks whether they smoke, drink,
wear seat belts or try to have a
low-fat, low-cholesterol diet.
Ms. Johnson said scientists
recognize the influence of good
nutrition on long life, but the
cause and effect is not under
stood. She said researchers have
assumed that people’s diets
worsen with age, but with the
centenarians interviewed so far
that has not been the case.
“It’s hard to draw any conclu
sions about longevity based on
any one area,” she said. "The
aging process itself alters the uti
lization of many nutrients, and
dietary patterns influence the
mental and physical processes
and the progression of many dis
eases."
Ga. Review publishes unknown gems
PtUr Frey/Tr* H«a and Black
The Georgia Review: University's literary magazine
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
The Georgia Review, the Univer
sity’s literary magazine, searches
for unpublished literary gems by
both well-known and undiscovered
writers. "We’re open to new ideas,”
Review Editor Stanley Lindberg
said. "We’ve published a little more
than 60 previously unpublished
writers who’ve gone on to careers
in writing and won national
awards."
This year, Cathv Smith-Bowers,
a poet from South Carolina, won
the $5,000 General Electric Young
Writers Award, which includes a
$2,500 award to The Review for
publishing her work. Nominees for
the prize must be under 40.
Bowers, who is now 40, just made
the cutoff date.
Unlike most national magazines
who scoff at unsolicited manu
scripts, The Georgia Review’s staff
of five wades through about 15,000
manuscripts a year to find good un
published writing.
‘We read every manuscript,”
Lindberg said. ‘The big commer
cial magazines don’t. We’re open to
new things.”
The unpublished work of well-
known writers is just as valuable
to The Review. In the Fall 1989
issue, The Review carried ‘The En
chantress,” an unpublished story
by Robert Louis Stevenson, which
hia stepson had sold at an auction.
Although people knew it existed, it
passed through many hands and
disappeared in a number of other
auctions.
An unknown man bought the
story at an auction and sold it to
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library.
A friend of Lindberg’s at Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio, asked
him if The Georgia Review would
like the story, because he didn’t
want it to get lost in an unknown
journal.
In the Spring 1990 issue,
Women and the Arts,” Lindberg
said they hope to carry a piece by
Eudora Welty, a contributing ed
itor for The Review. Welty will
write an annotation of 100 to 200
letters that she exchanged with
her mentor Katherine Anne
Porter, an American writer who
died in 1980.
The Review aims for interdisci
plinary appeal by getting a number
of different viewpoints “to rub up
against each other,” said Associate
Editor Stephen Corey. These in
clude art, history, the environment
and psychology.
He cited a piece in the Winter
1989 issue by Betty Sargent, a
former Review staffer who had
been a reporter covering the
League of Nations in Geneva
during the 1930s prior to World
War fl.
She tells how she returned to
Geneva 50 years later to uncover
an incident that happened during a
closed League session. During the
session, a man walked in with a
bomb in his briefcase and deto
nated it to dramatize the threat of
Hitler.
Corey said the historical signifi
cance of the piece gives it a
timeless human element.
"You would be fascinated and in
structed by this essay,” he said.
“One of the reasons it r s typical (of
Review content) is that it’s aty
pical.”
The Georgia Review is available
at Barnett’s News Stand, The Book
Center, Jackson Street Books, Old
Black Dog Book Store on Lumpkin
Street, the University Bookstore
and Bookland at Georgia Square.
Developmentaliy disabled elderly rising as baby-boomers come of age
By LARA PENNINGTON
Contributing Writer
The number of elderly people
who have developmental disabili
ties is expected to increase over the
next 20 years, Matthew Janicki,
the director of Aging Services at
the New York State Office of
Mental Retardation and Devel
opmental Disabilities, said
Thursday at the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education.
Janicki urged health care profes
sionals to be creative and innova
tive in making new programs for
the elderly and disabled.
'The population is growing and
there are many unmet needs,” said
Janicki. “In 10 years we are going
to have a very large number of
people knocking on our door
saying, ‘We’re ready to retire, what
are you going to do for us?’ ”
In Georgia, the population of
people over 60 is 13 to 14 percent,
and four out of every 1,000 have
developmental disabilities, which
range from Down’s Syndrome to
Alzheimer’s disease.
In the United States, there are
27 million persons over 65 vears-
old. This number has doubled since
1900 and will triple by 2030.
Janicki attributes this projected
increase to the aging of the baby-
boom generation — those born be
tween 1950 and 1965.
“Right now, said Janicki, “there
are more mentally retarded people
25-35 years old, but in 20 years,
services are going to have to lean
toward an older population.”
“From my understanding, aging
is in area that has a great need but
is underserved,” said Micheal Ma
lone, assistant to the director of
University Affiliated Programs.
Some of the services needed are
housing, planned activities, sup
port services, health and nutrition
and companionship, Janicki said.
His solution to this problem is leg
islative funding.
“They must recognize that
people need places to go instead of
work,” he said. ‘The number of
people growing older is eating
money appropriated by the (1987)
Older Americans Act.”
Because of this act, everyone is
entitled to the services of local
aging agencies, but not every fa
cility is equipped for devel
opmental disability.
Also, Janicki said he thinks the
nation should fund families who
have an elderly impaired person at
home. He sees a need to connect
aging and disablity agencies.
“Janicki has helped me decide
whether I want to work with the el
derly,” said Rodney Ramey, senior
social work major. “I think more
services are needed for the elderly.
If more young people become inter
ested, we can help senior citizens." versity Affiliated Program, which
Janicki came to the University educates future leaders in health
through the federally funded Uni- and human services.
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