The 15th International Conference on Aging in the Americas (ICAA) Cognitive Aging in Mexico and Latinos Communities in the United States: Deconstructing Resilience is the 2022 iteration in the ICAA series focusing on aging and health in the Americas (CAA). The 2022 ICAA will focus on how cumulative and persistent structural social and economic disadvantage in the Mexican-origin population affects cognitive aging, brain health, and dementia.
The increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia, especially early-onset decline in the Mexican-origin population, increases the urgency of understanding the causes and consequences of cognitive aging for individuals, families, and society. The conference papers will address the following issues:
The meaning and theoretical and practical usefulness of the concept of resilience in understanding important aspects of cognitive aging.
Interventions that can be introduced earlier in life to increase cognitive reserve.
Ways in which cognitive research be enhanced throughout the life course and in later life? and
Identification of the cultural and social resources that can be mobilized to promote brain health and enhance the quality of life?
The 2022 ICAA Call for Abstracts is available here y para español aquí.
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Speakers
Jacqueline L. Angel is professor of public affairs and sociology and a faculty affiliate at the Population Research Center and LBJ School Center for Health and Social Policy at The University of Texas at Austin. She did her postdoctoral training in mental health services research at Rutgers University and at the Pennsylvania State University Program in Demography of Aging. Her research examines health and retirement issues in the U.S., with a focus on older minorities, the impact of social policy on the Hispanic population and Mexican-American families. Dr. Angel is author/co-author/editor of 80 journal articles, 30 book chapters and 10 books. Her recent publications include Latinos in an Aging World, Challenges of Latino Aging in the Americas and Handbook of the Sociology of Aging.
Dr. Angel is a fellow of the behavioral and social sciences section of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and a senior fellow at the UTMB School of Medicine's Sealy Center on Aging. She has been honored with the GSA Senior Service Scholar Award and the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize. In Austin, she is a member of the President's Council at Family Eldercare and was a 2013 recipient of the Jackie Lelong Visionary Leader Award.