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2017 ICAA Presentations

  • 2017 ICAA Presentations
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Dinner Address: California Becoming: Demographic Pasts and Futures in the Golden State by Manuel Pastor

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Opening Keynote: Lessons Learned from the Positive Minds-Strong Bodies Trial on Disability Prevention for Racial/Ethnic Minority Elders by Margarita Alegria

Panel Presentation I: What are the Elements for Successful Aging in an Environment (Discussant: Kyriakos Markides)

  • Elements for Successful Aging: Role of Place and Environment by Hortensia Amaro
  • Community Context and Mortality among Mexican Americans: What Do We Really Know? by Karl Eschbach
  • Life Course Lens on Health Inequalities among US- and Foreign-born Whites and Mexican Americans in Later Life by Tyson Brown

Panel Presentation II: Promoting Health in a Diverse Social Context (Discussant: Luis Miguel Gutiérrez Robledo)

  • Latinos, Alzheimer’s Family Caregiving, and Place: Directions for Advancing Services and Interventions by Ladson Hinton
  • Functional Disability and Informal Care for Older Adults in Mexico by Mariana Lopez-Ortega
  • Empirical Issues in the Study of Cognitive Aging through Population-Based Studies by Silvia Mejía-Arango (co-author Brian Downer)

Lunch Keynote: From Guessing to Shaping the Future of Aging by Roberto Ham-Chande

Panel Presentation III: Place and Unmet Needs (Discussant: Jacqueline Angel)

  • Implications of Long-Term Heroin Use among Mexican American Users: The “Maturing Out” Paradox by Alice Cepeda
  • Aging and Suicidal Behavior in Mexico by Guilherme Luiz Guimaraes Borges
  • Care for the Elderly: The Case of Cuba by Jesús Menéndez Jiménez

Panel Presentation IV: Emerging Scholars Oral Presentations (Discussant: Zach Gassoumis)

  • Race/Ethnic Differences in the Neighborhood Environment by Jennifer Ailshire
  • Demystifying the Puzzles of Hispanic Health Paradox from a Binational Perspective: A Look at Mortality, Morbidity, Mental Health, and Socio-Behavioral Risk Factor by Qian Sun
  • Poverty in the Elderly in Mexico: An Analysis from the Gender Differences by Sebastián Antonio Jiménez Solís
  • Regional and Hispanic Subgroup Disparities in the Prevalence of Diabetes & Hypertension Among Older Adults by Catherine Pérez

Friday, September 22, 2017

Morning Keynote: Contextual Effects on Hispanic Health: Medical Context and the HRS by Eileen Crimmins

Panel Presentation V: SOL-INCA Study (Discussant: Hector González)

  • The Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging (SOL-INCA) by Hector González
  • Is There a Relationship between Accelerometer-Assessed Physical Activity and Sedentary Time and Cognitive Function in U.S. Hispanic/Latino Adults? The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) by Elizabeth Vásquez
  • Cardiovascular Health and Neurocognitive Function among US Latinos from Diverse Backgrounds by Wassim Tarraf

Panel Presentation VI: Emerging Scholars Oral Presentations (Discussant: Jennifer Ailshire)

  • The Impact of Socio Cultural Context on Frailty according to Life Space Levels by Mariana González Lara
  • Investigation into the Co-Development of Cognitive and Physical Decline among Older Mexican Americans by Marc A. Garcia
  • Indoor Air Pollution and Cognitive Function among Older Mexican Adults by Joseph L. Saenz
  • Depressive Symptoms in Adult Child Caregivers of Very Old Mexican Americans: A study of the HEPESE by David V. Flores

Closing Keynote: Priorities for Creating New Knowledge, 2017 ICAA by Steven P. Wallace

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