Title: APHA Task Force on Aging Update

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Section/SPIG: Aging & Public Health

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Plan to attend the Task Force on Aging-sponsored session in Philadelphia! The title of this year’s session (#4204) is: “Keeping Older Americans Healthy and Independent: Responding to the Need, Acting on the Science.”

Date and time: Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Presenters are:

Lynda A. Anderson, PhD
Chief, Health Care and Aging Studies
Division of Adult and Community Health
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Nancy A. Whitelaw, PhD
Director, Center for Healthy Aging
The National Council on the Aging

Douglas Shenson, MD, MPH
President, SPARC (Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration)
Newton, MA

Marcia G. Ory, PhD, MPH (Discussant)
Professor, Social and Behavioral Health
Director, Active for Life National Program Office
School of Rural Public Health
The Texas A & M University System


Also, the Task Force on Aging will hold its annual Business Meeting on Sunday, Dec. 11, from 2-3:30 p.m. (Check your meeting schedule to identify location sitesduring the APHA Annual Meeting). If you have any issues that you would like to be addressed at this Business Meeting, please contact Rick Fortinsky at <Fortinsky@uchc.edu>.