Tentative Schedule
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 – Welcome Dinner (by invitation)
5:00 pm: Registration
6:00 – 8:00 pm: Dinner at Rosa Mexicano
6:45 pm: Dinner Address: California Becoming: Demographic Pasts and Futures in the Golden State by Manuel Pastor
Thursday, September 21, 2017 – at USC Tower at South Park Center, 30th Floor
7:30 – 8:30 am: Registration & Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 am: Welcome to Conference Series on Aging in the Americas by William A. Vega, Jacqueline L. Angel and Luis Miguel Gutiérrez Robledo
8:45 – 9:30 am: Opening Keynote: Lessons Learned from the Positive Minds-Strong Bodies Trial on Disability Prevention for Racial/Ethnic Minority Elders by Margarita Alegria
9:30 – 10:30 am: Panel Presentation I: What are the Elements for Successful Aging in an Environment (Discussant: Kyriakos Markides)
- Elements for Successful Aging: the Role of Place and Environment by Hortensia Amaro
- Community Context and Mortality among Mexican Americans: What Do We Really Know? by Karl Eschbach
- “Weathering Processes” at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Nativity? Health Inequalities among Whites and Mexican Americans in Later Life by Tyson Brown
10:30 – 10:45 am: Break
10:45 – 11:45 am: 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 and U.S. by Mariana Lopez-Ortega
- Empirical Issues in the Study of Cognitive Aging through Population-Based Studies (co-author Brian Downer) by Silvia Mejía-Arango
11:45 am – 1:00 pm: Lunch
12:00 – 12:45 pm: Lunch Keynote: From Guessing to Shaping the Future of Aging by Roberto Ham-Chande
1:00 – 2:15 pm: 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
- Los cuidados de las personas mayores: el caso de Cuba by Jesús Menéndez
- Cuídate Cuidador: Using Technology to Support Latino Caregivers by Sue Levkoff
2:15 – 2:30 pm: Break
2:30 – 3:30 pm: Panel Presentation IV: Emerging Scholars Oral Presentations (Discussant: Zach Gassoumis)
- Neighborhood Context of Older U.S. Latino Populations 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
- How Does Regional Variation Inform our Understanding of Hispanic Populations and Their Diabetes/Hypertension Prevalence? by Catherine Pérez
3:30 – 3:45 pm: Break
3:45 – 4:45 pm: Juried Poster Session
5:15 – 6:15 pm: Mentoring Session at Luxe City Center Hotel (by invitation)
6:30 – 8:00 pm: Mentoring Dinner at Luxe City Center Hotel (by invitation)
Friday, September 22, 2017 – USC Tower at South Park Center, 30th Floor
7:30 – 8:00 am: Registration & Breakfast
8:00 am: Welcome by William A. Vega
8:00 – 8:45 am: Morning Keynote: Contextual Effects on Medical Care Available to Latino/as in the US by Eileen Crimmins
8:45 – 9:45 am: 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 Behavior 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
9:45 – 10:00 am: Break
10:00 – 11:00 am: 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 for Older Mexican Americans by Marc A. Garcia
- Indoor Air Pollution and Cognitive Function among Older Mexican Adults by Joseph Saenz
- Depressive Symptoms in Child Caregivers of Very Old Mexican Americans by David V. Flores
11:10 – 11:30 am: Awards Ceremony
11:30 am – 12:15 pm: Closing Keynote: Looking to the Future – Priorities for Creating New Knowledge by Steven P. Wallace
12:15 – 1:30 pm: Boxed Lunch & Consensus Building Session with William A. Vega and Luis Miguel Gutiérrez Robledo
Conference adjourns
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