News Release

Fifth Annual Summer Symposium on Aging

February 10, 2000
Updated May 9, 2000

The Fifth Annual Summer Symposium on Aging will be held from July 12-14, 2000, hosted by the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement of UNC-Asheville. The symposium theme is GENDER, RACE AND CLASS: ENDURING INEQUALITIES IN LATER LIFE.

1.Call for Presentations
2.Proposal Form
3.Program & Registration Materials (use Adobe Acrobat 4.0)
4.Program Updates:

additional information for the Disaster Track

A plenary address on the conference theme will be given by Dr Paula Dressel, Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and International and Community Partnerships, Georgia State University, Atlanta. Dr Dressel is also Director of Research and Development and Senior Fellow, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore.

According to symposium co-chairs, Dennis Streets (Division of Aging) and Victor Marshall (Institute on Aging), the theme will stimulate a hard-hitting, critical examination of inequalities affecting the lives of older citizens, and the service dilemmas faced in meeting needs in an era of increasing diversity and social inequality.

The Year 2000 Summer Symposium will also feature workshop and other consideration of the hurricane and flood-associated disaster in Eastern Carolina as it affects older people.

The conference co-chairs are Denise Snodgrass, North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement, at UNC-Asheville, and Sue Archer, Centralina Council of Governments

Local co-sponsors of the year 2000 symposium include the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), the Land of Sky Regional Council Area Agency on Aging, and the Buncombe County Council on Aging. The state-wide co-sponsor is the Institute on Aging.

Please contact Dennis Streets or Victor Marshall concerning program ideas and issues.

Dennis Streets
Planning and Information, Division of Aging
Dept. of Health and Human Services
State of North Carolina
2101 Mail Service Center
Raleigh NC 27699-2101
dennis.streets@ncmail.net

Victor W. Marshall, Director,
Institute on Aging,
720 Airport Rd., C.B. 1030
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1030
victor_marshall@unc.edu