News Release

Special Panel Presentation Planned

September 5, 2001

The IOA will host a special panel presentation entitled: "Canadian Research On Aging And The Family: A Panel Presentation By Distinguished Canadian Social Gerontologists". The event is co-sponsored by the Jordan Institute for Families at the School of Social Work and the UNC-CH Department of Sociology. All are invited to attend this event on November 12, 2001 from 10:30am-12pm (coffee at 10) at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC.

The event will include the following presentations by speakers who are the leading aging and family scholars in Canada:

• Aging and Family Ties Across Time: Connecting Recent Trends with the Experience of Multigenerational Families
  Ingrid Connidis, Professor of Sociology and Director, Interdisciplinary Group on Aging, University of Western Ontario
  Ingrid has published numerous research articles on various facets of family ties and aging, including sibling ties and childlessness, in a range of journals such as Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, The Gerontologist, Journal of Family Studies, Research on Aging, Canadian Journal on Aging and Journal of Aging Studies. Her most recent book, Family Ties and Aging, has just been published by Sage (2001).
  
  
• Changes in Family Structure. What are the consequences for older parents?
  Carolyn J. Rosenthal, Professor of Sociology, McMaster University and Editor-in-Chief, The Canadian Journal on Aging
  Carolyn has directed the Centre for Gerontological Studies at McMaster University. Her numerous publications include Nurses, Patients and Families (1980), The Remainder of Their Days: Domestic Policy and Older Families in the United States and Canada 1993), Parent-Child Exchanges of Supports and Intergenerational Equity (1998), and (with Bengtson) the article, "Family", in the Encyclopedia of Aging. Her publications also appear in journals such as The Gerontologist, Research on Aging, The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences and the Journal of Aging and Health.
  
  
• Family Age Structure and Intergenerational Relations
  Anne Martin-Matthews, Professor of Social Work and Family Studies, and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of British Columbia
  Anne is the past Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal on Aging. Her publications include Widowhood in Later Life (1991) and articles on aging, family and health. Her research, examining formal and informal social support, intergenerational relations and caregiving, women and aging and work-family balance (among other topics) has appeared in Journal of Marriage and the Family, The Gerontologist, Research on Aging, The Journal of Family Issues, and numerous other publications.

The panel will also include:

• Moderator: Professor Barry D. McPherson, Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, Wilfred Laurier University, and President, Canadian Association on Gerontology
• Discussant: Victor W. Marshall, Professor of Sociology and Director, Institute on Aging, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill