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The Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute held a conference on “Social Support and Service Provision to Older Adults: Marjorie Cantor’s Legacy to Gerontology” in New York City in January. The event recognized the pioneering scholarship of the late Professor Marjorie Cantor that advanced understanding of the lifestyles of older persons, the importance of caregiver support systems, and needs of elders across class and culture.

The event featured a full-day agenda of aging-related topics and speakers with expertise in those areas, including faculty from the Falk College and Maxwell School and other invited experts. Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services William Corr was the featured speaker. During his address titled “A New Day for Older Americans: Addressing the Needs of Our Aging Population,” he discussed the promise of the Affordable Care Act to meet longstanding needs for our aging population, particularly caregiving and health care disparities among minorities. While the ACA has received plenty of political feedback, Corr said the federal agencies particularly welcome input from scholars that can help expand the health policy community’s knowledge base.

Click here for more information on the keynote speaker, William Corr.

Papers from the 2012 conference on “Aging with Disability: Demographic, Social, and Policy Considerations” have now been published as a January, 2014 Supplement to the Disability and Health Journal. The conference, which was sponsored by the Administration for Community Living (ACL) at the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) at the Department of Education, was co-organized by the Center for Aging and Policy Studies and by the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging at the University of Michigan. The new publication was co-edited by Robert Schoeni (University of Michigan) and Douglas Wolf (Syracuse University), and includes an editorial co-authored by Deborah Monahan (Syracuse University) and Wolf, as well as a paper co-authored by Nina Kohn (Syracuse University).

Click here for more information on the papers.

The invitation can be found here.

In September 2013 the directors of the Cornell Population Center and the Center for Aging and Policy Studies, along with the Provosts of the two universities, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that commits the two Centers to collaborate on a range of research and outreach activities. The MOU establishes an Upstate Population Research Consortium that is intended to serve several purposes, such as:

• Organizing activities, such as the “Encore Conference,” that will allow for the dissemination of research and scholarly exchange involving the faculty and students associated with each member Center, as well as of other population research scholars that may later join the consortium;
• Facilitating collaborative research projects across institutions;
• Leveraging existing resources and exploiting economies of scale in activities, such as Methodology Workshops, of interest to the faculty and students associated with each institution;
• Raising the profile of each sponsoring Center, both locally and nationally; and
• Such additional collaborative and cooperative activities that may be identified in the future.

The first such activity to be undertaken under this new MOU is the October 18, 2013 “Encore Conference.”