3128.0 Environment and Aging: Building Lifelong Communities

Monday, November 9, 2009: 10:30 AM
Oral
Moderator:
Kathy Sykes

10:30 AM
Addressing the myth of Alzheimer's: What you aren't being told about today's most dreaded diagnosis
Danny George and Peter Whitehouse
  
10:50 AM
Reimaging brain aging: Narrative threads and environmental drivers
Danny George, Peter Whitehouse and Jill Stein, MD
  
11:05 AM
Environmental threats to healthy aging: An ecological approach to preventing neurodegeneration and other chronic diseases
Jill Stein, MD
11:20 AM
Cleveland Regional StoryBank: A transdisciplinary effort to understand stories of health and disease
Danny George and Peter Whitehouse
  
11:35 AM
Is a positive perception of the neighborhood environment associated with community engagement for non-working older adults with chronic conditions?
Janet Prvu Bettger, ScD
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Gerontological Health
Endorsed by: Environment, Socialist Caucus, Social Work, Healthy Communities for Healthy Aging Forum

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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