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Recent EventsThe Gerontology Center's Lifelong Learning Institute offered informal classes targeted at adults age 50 and older in Spring 2008. Another class on Wellbeing, taught by SU Physiologist Mary Pagan, was held at Onondaga Lake Park on July 19, 2008. From May 19 to May 22, 2008, the Gerontology Center hosted its summer institute, Age and Engagement℠ in the Classroom, which was designed for college instructors and faculty who wanted to introduce new or strengthen existing courses dealing with issues in aging. It covered aging from a multidisciplinary perspective, including demography, sociology, economics, health, psychology, social work, and the law. Archived resource materials from the 2002 gerontology education workshop are still available on the Center for Policy Research website. PowerPoint presentations from 2008 on Internet Resources for Teaching about Aging and Videos for Teaching about Aging are also available. On Thursday, April 17, John W. Rowe, MD, chair of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans, delivered the 4th annual Seminar on Aging. His topic was Who Will Take Care of Tomorrow's Elderly? Recommendations from the Institute of Medicine. This series is co-sponsored by the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center of Upstate New York, the Center for Policy Research, and the Syracuse University Gerontology Center. Past lectures have been published as Center for Policy Research policy briefs and are available on the CPR website. On March 28, 2008, the SU Gerontology Center hosted a brownbag luncheon from 12:00 to 1:00 pm in 426 Eggers Hall. Two faculty affiliates of the Gerontology Center reported briefly on the current status of their research.
May 3-5, 2007, Conference on Aging and Disability On October 25, 2007, Neil Wenger, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Healthcare Ethics Center at UCLA Medical Center, delivered the third Syracuse Seminar on Aging. His topic was Do We Want to Measure the Quality of Medical Care for Older People? If So, Why Aren't We? Dr. Wenger was co-director of the original Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) project, which developed quality-of-care indicators and the instruments to implement them, to measure care at the health system or health plan level for vulnerable older adults. This lecture was published online as CPR Policy Brief No. 38 in June 2008. On March 2, 2007, Nina Kohn, Assistant Professor of Law and Faculty Affiliate of the SU Gerontology Center, talked about Voting Rights of Long-Term Care Residents: Providing Access and Maintaining Dignity in the Face of Dementia, at a brownbag. Professor Kohn discussed concerns and challenges presented when residents of long-term care facilities want to vote. Should nursing homes and similar institutions be either required or permitted to play a “gate-keeping” role in the electoral process by screening residents for mental capacity to vote before permitting or facilitating access to the ballot? On January 26, 2007, Martin Sliwinski, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Faculty Affiliate of the SU Gerontology Center, talked about his research in aging and cognition at a brownbag. On December 1, 2006, hosted a brownbag in 426 Eggers Hall. Jan Ondrich, Professor of Economics, Faculty Affiliate of the SU Gerontology Center, and recipient of a Summer 2006 Seed Grant for Gerontology Faculty, discussed his current research: The Labor Force Participation of Older Workers. On October 27, 2006, the Gerontology Center hosted a brownbag in 426 Eggers Hall. Tim Fairchild, Assistant Professor of Exercise Science, Faculty Affiliate of the SU Gerontology Center, and recipient of a Summer 2006 Seed Grant for Gerontology Faculty, described his current research: Age-Associated Changes in Carbohydrate Metabolism. On October 12, 2006, David Casarett, MD, MA, of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, presented the second Syracuse Seminar on Aging, titled Is It Time to Redesign Hospice? A Consumer-Focused Approach to End-of-Life Care in the United States. Co-sponsored by the SU Gerontology Center, the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center of Upstate New York, and the Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School of Syracuse University. An edited version of this seminar has been published as CPR Policy Brief No. 35. On April 21, 2006, the Syracuse University Gerontology Center hosted a presentation by Dallas Salisbury, President and CEO, Employee Benefits Research Institute, titled The Future of Employment Related Benefits. On Friday, April 7, 2006, the Center hosted a continental breakfast with Jay Olshansky, internationally recognized scholar and human longevity expert, in the Center for Policy Research, 426 Eggers Hall. Olshansky's research focuses on the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, and global implications of the re-emergence of infectious and parasitic diseases. Over the past decade, he has been collaborating with colleagues in the biological sciences to develop the modern "biodemographic paradigm" of mortality—an effort to understand the biological nature of the dying out process of living organisms. Olshansky's work on biodemography has been funded by a Special Emphasis Research Career Award and Independent Scientist Award from the National Institute on Aging. On March 23, 2006, the College of Human Services and Health Professions hosted a reception and author presentation honoring the publication of Lessons from Joan: Living and Loving with Cancer, a Husband's Story, written by Eric Kingson, Professor of Social Work and a Faculty Affiliate of the SU Gerontology Center, in the Schine Student Center. The event was co-sponsored by the Syracuse University Gerontology Center and the Crouse Health Foundation.
In January 2006 the Center welcomed the AARP Tax-Aides from the New York 4 District to the Maxwell School for its annual training program. Carol A. Brooks, SU Professor Emerita of Nursing and a former Faculty Affiliate of the Gerontology Center before her retirement, is the AARP liaison for the program. On December 1, 2005, the Association for Student Elderly Connection (ASEC) hosted a panel discussion on Alzheimer's Disease and showed the movie The Notebook in Kittredge Auditorium, with funding from the SU Gerontology Center. On October 27, 2005, the Center co-sponsored the first Syracuse Seminar on Aging, The Changing Economic Incentives of Long-Term Care, by R. Tamara Konetzka, University of Chicago. On October 21, 2005, Gerontology Center faculty affiliates Andrew London and Janet Wilmoth presented a summary of their current research project, Cohort Differences in the Effect of Military Service on Later Life Health and Mortality. On May 4, 2005, the SU Gerontology Center hosted a half-day conference, at which Faculty Affiliates presented brief summaries of their current research. On May 3-4, 2004, the SU Gerontology Center hosted the 5th Annual Maxwell Policy Research Symposium, Changing Demographics, Stagnant Social Policies. |
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