Summary
This project is a renewal application for an annual conference series on Aging in the Americas (ICAA) focusing on health disparities among Hispanic populations in the U.S. and Latin America, aiming to foster research, develop emerging scholars, and produce high-impact publications.
What they want
The project involves extending a successful annual conference series (ICAA) that began in 2001. The renewal proposes five future installments from 2025-2029, each with a distinctive focus. It will commission 50 papers, including five keynote speakers from various social science and medical fields. The primary goals are to review and analyze contemporary social research on disparities in 'healthy aging' among Hispanics, develop emerging scholars through exposure and mentoring, and foster high-impact publications on healthful aging, including cross-national comparisons using HRS family surveys in Latin America. The series will emphasize the role of country-specific economic and social policies and institutional contexts in shaping the health and well-being of older Hispanic populations.
Deliverables
- Annual conference series installments (2025-2029)
- 50 commissioned papers
- Peer-reviewed books and special journal issues (as in previous installments)
- High-impact publications on healthful aging
Key personnel
- Keynote speakers from sociology
- Keynote speakers from psychology
- Keynote speakers from demography
- Keynote speakers from social policy
- Keynote speakers from medicine
- Keynote speakers from gerontology
- Keynote speakers from economics
