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OXFORD, Ohio - The Scripps Gerontology Center of Miami University is presenting a Mini-Conference on Aging 2:30-5 p.m. Wednesday, April 8 in multipurpose rooms B-C at Shriver Center. Current research will be shared and Scripps will celebrate its 75th anniversary as a population research foundation and 25th year focusing on gerontology. The mini-conference schedule is below. Roundtables are in the left column; poster sessions on the right.
| 2:40 - 3:20 | | A Study of Home Care and Nursing Home Use Patterns in Ohio -- Bob Applebaum; Shahla Mehdizadeh; Jane Karnes Straker. Free Radical Theory of Aging: Implications for Exercise and Health -- Helaine Alessio. What We Didn't Learn Because of Who Wouldn't Talk with Us -- Lisa Groger; Pamela Mayberry; Jane Karnes Straker. Aging Parents and Adult Children: Dramatic Arguments against Role Reversal -- Judith de Luce. | The Leisure Experience of Older Residents in Oxford Township: A Longitudinal Perspective -- Debra Stanley; Erin Gartley. Individual Long-Term Care Planning: A Decision Model -- Kathy McGrew. | | 3:30 - 4:10 | | What Students Need to Know about Work, Pensions, and Retirement -- Robert Atchley. Intergenerational Learning: Classroom and Beyond -- Joan Fopma-Loy; Pat Baugher. The Sounds of Sweat: The Effects of Exercise on Hearing and Health -- Kathleen Hutchinson; Helaine Alessio. Independent Choices: Enhancing Consumer Direction for Older People with Disabilities -- Suzanne Kunkel; Pamela Mayberry; Marisa Scala. | New Sentencing Policies: The Graying of Prison Inmates -- Sherry Corbett. Images of Older Adults in the Print Media -- Val Freysinger. "Taking Charge": A Process Model for Developing Consumer-Oriented Long- Term Care Training Materials -- Marisa Scala. | | 4:20 - 5:00 | | Linking Acute and Community-Based Long-Term Care: What Works and What Doesn't -- Jane Karnes Straker; Bob Applebaum. Successful Aging: Developing A Measurement Instrument -- Aimin Wang. Economic Correlates of Depression Among the Oldest Old: Evidence from the AHEAD Database -- Maureen Lage; Mike Treglia; Timothy Hylan. "Promise Me You'll Never...": Ethical Issues in "Placing" Older Persons -- Terry Perlin. | How Labor Market Behaviors Affect the Ability to Amass Enough Financial Assets to Have a Reasonable Retirement Income -- Rebecca Luzadis; Shahla Mehdizadeh. Age Differences in Stepping Performance During Obstacle Clearance -- Bill Berg; Eileen Blasi. Age Impaired Learning: Neurological Correlates in Animals -- Matthew Seager; Stephen Berry. Age Impaired Learning: A Cholinergic Animal Model -- Yukiko Asaka; Matthew Seager; Stephen Berry. |
Research abstracts will be available at the conference. The event is free and open to the public.
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