Presidential Symposium: The Intersection of Age and Race: Impact on Reimagining Aging

Chair(s)

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  Shannon Jarrott, PhD, FGSA

  Professor
  Social Work
  The Ohio State University
  Columbus, Ohio, United States

  Slides

Co-Chair(s)

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  Karen Lincoln, MSW, MA, PhD, FGSA

  Associate Professor
  Social Work
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, California, United States

Discussant(s)

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  Becca Levy, PhD

  Professor of Epidemiology and Psychology
  Social and Behavioral Sciences
  Yale School of Public Health
  New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Individual Symposium Abstract First Author(s)

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  Naoko Muramatsu, PhD, FGSA

  Professor
  School of Public Health
  University of Illinois Chicago
  Chicago, Illinois, United States
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  Ernest Gonzales, MSW,PhD

  Associate Professor, Director to the Center for Health and Aging Innovation at NYU Silver School of Social Work
  Silver School of Social Work
  New York University
  New York, New York, United States
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  Sheria Robinson-Lane, PhD, MSN, MHA

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership
  University of Michigan School of Nursing
  Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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  Elizabeth Muñoz, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Human Development and Family Sciences
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Austin, Texas, United States

In this BSS Presidential Symposium, we address the conference theme of “Embracing our diversity; enriching our discipline; reimagining aging” by attending to the intersection of age and race. In our panel, speakers will address the intersection of age and race as it relates to experience of ageism and its effects on individuals’ opportunities to live meaningful lives. Researchers who apply an intersectional lens to their study of aging, ageism, and productive aging among diverse populations will share relevant theoretical concepts, methodological approaches, and associated findings. Links between racism, ageism, and health hold practice implications across health care, work, leisure, and other community settings. Researchers link life course influences, including discrimination, and cognitive health (Muñoz) and productive aging (Gonzales); Robinson-Lane presents a health care model of Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Standards designed to reduce racism and improve care; and, Muramatsu offers practice and policy recommendations to reduce structural racism experienced by older persons and those paid to care for them. Presenters will address the following as we discuss how to reimagine aging from an anti-ageist, anti-racist perspective: 1. Evidence of the intersection of age and race in the experience of ageism. 2. Research models that attend to the intersection of age and race.3. Efforts to reduce ageism as it intersects with race in order to reimagine aging through practice and policy.

Presentations:

• 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET

  Place, Time, and Structural Racism: Global Perspectives for Reimagining Aging
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Naoko Muramatsu, PhD, FGSA – University of Illinois Chicago
• 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET

  Ending Ageism Isn't Enough: Infusing an Intersectional Lens to Advance Productive Aging Research and Health
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Ernest Gonzales, MSW,PhD – New York University
• 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET

  Pain, Place, and Positionality: Systemic Approaches to Improving Equitable Health Outcomes for Older Adults
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Sheria G. Robinson-Lane, PhD, MSN, MHA – University of Michigan School of Nursing
• 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET

  No Silver Bullet: Addressing Cognitive Health in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Older Adults
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Elizabeth Muñoz, PhD – The University of Texas at Austin