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About CAAConference Series on Aging in the Americas (CAA) is aimed at utilizing research to augment knowledge about dimensions of healthful aging for people of Hispanic and Latin American descent and fostering emerging scholars in the field as this topic rapidly develops as a major policy and national budget issue. Past conferences examined the social and economic causes and consequences of health problems among older Mexican-origin individuals in the United States and in Mexico. The Second Conference on Aging in the Americas (S-CAA) Summary Report provides an overview of what was accomplished in the most recent conference held at The University of Texas at Austin. The edited collection of findings from this conference, The Health of Aging Hispanics, has recently been published. Future symposia will be indispensable means to assemble multidisciplinary contributors who can disseminate state-of-the-art research, inform public policy, and consider the best course for ensuring healthful aging of Hispanics in the U.S. Recommended topics include comparisons of health characteristics of Mexican immigrants, assessment of different options in Hispanic elder care in the U.S. and Mexico, analysis of immigration effects on Social Security, interactions of biological dimensions with social environment, and a review of factors affecting overall well-being and the aging trajectory. Based on past conference attendance by scholars and students from all over the United States and Mexico, the CAA series is certain to draw a dynamic and multidisciplinary group in the conferences planned for future dates. Conference organizers would sincerely appreciate feedback from all who are interested in previous and upcoming CAA events.OrganizersJacqueline L. Angel, Ph.D.
Keith E. Whitfield, Ph.D.
Kyriakos Markides, Ph.D.
He is currently Principal Investigator of the Hispanic EPESE (Established Population for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly), a longitudinal study of the health of 3,050 Mexican American elderly from the five Southwestern states. Dr. Markides is credited with coining the term ‘Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox’ (with J. Coreil) which is currently the leading theme in Hispanic health. He is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of Health and Aging published by SAGE Publications in April, 2007. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISA) has recently listed Dr. Markides among the most highly cited scientists in the world. Dr. Markides is the 2006 recipient of the Distinguished Mentorship Award of the Gerontological Society of America, Behavioral and Social Sciences section. Fernando Torres-Gil, Ph.D.
Professor Torres-Gil is an expert in the fields of health and long-term care, the politics of aging, social policy, ethnicity, and disability. He is the author of four books and more than 80 articles and book chapters, including The New Aging: Politics and Change in America (1992). As Assistant Secretary for Aging in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), he played a key role in promoting the importance of aging, long-term care, and disability issues in consolidating federal programs for older persons and in helping the generation of baby boomers redefine retirement in a post-pension era. Dr. Torres-Gil has served as President of the American Society on Aging (1989-1992) and is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. |
Jacqueline L. Angel, who has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University, is a Professor of 
Dr. Whitfield is a leading expert on aging minorities, with a primary but not sole focus on health disparities in the African-American population, and behavioral genetic epidemiology. He has written numerous peer-reviewed publications. He is also the editor of Closing the Gap: Improving the Health of Minority Elders in the New Millennium. Dr. Whitfield has had a long-standing role in the development of junior scholars from his work as Chair of the Task Force on Minority Issues for Gerontological Society of America (GSA) as well as the organizer of the American Psychological Associations Minority Aging Networks in Psychology program and the GSA Emerging Scholars and Professions Organization (ESP) Program by GSA. He is the co-organizer of the Second Conference on Aging in the Americas.
Dr. Markides received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1976 from Louisiana State
Dr. Torres-Gil is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, serves as Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy, and is the Director of the Center for Policy Research on Aging. Previously, he was a Professor of Gerontology and Public Administration at the University of Southern California and continues as an Adjunct Professor of Gerontology at USC. 