News Release

Addressing the Significance and Impact of the 2005 White House Conference on Aging

March 3, 2006

Join us March 30 from 10-11:45am for a panel presentation on "Addressing the Significance and Impact of the 2005 White House Conference on Aging." This panel will begin with five brief presentations addressing the significance and impact of the recent White House Conference on Aging, by people who had different roles to play in the conference. There will then be an extensive participatory discussion session with the audience. A reception will follow.

Bill Lamb, Associate Director for Public Service at the UNC Institute on Aging, will chair the panel. Panelists will include:

• Jan Busby-Whitehead, Director, Program on Aging, UNC School of Medicine, and delegate to the Conference;
• Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Associate Director for Aging and Diversity, UNC IOA, and presidential appointment to the Advisory Committee for the Conference;
• Karen Gottovi, Retired Director of NC Division of Aging and Adult Services and delegate to the conference;
• Ann Johnson, Chair, Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging, and delegate to this and previous White House Conferences;
• Dennis Streets, Director, NC Division of Aging and Adult Services, and staff for the White House Conference on Aging.

This event is free and open to the public and will be held at the UNC School of Social Work (Tate, Turner, Kuralt Building) in the Auditorium (First floor, Room 136), located at 301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill. Parking is available, for a fee, in the Dogwood Parking Deck on Manning Drive.

For more information on the White House Conference on Aging, please visit the section of our web site on North Carolina's Participation in the 2005 White House Conference on Aging.

 

About the IOA
The IOA is an inter-institutional program of the University of North Carolina with a mission to enhance the well-being of older people by fostering statewide collaboration in research, education and service. Its areas of research focus include the aging workforce and retirement, healthy aging, the long term care workforce, and diversity and aging issues. To learn more about the IOA, please visit: www.aging.unc.edu