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Jan 29 2025
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm

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Aging Seminar: Social Capital and the Benefits of Healthy Aging

SPRING 2025 SEMINARS OF THE ROBERT N. BUTLER COLUMBIA AGING CENTER | Assets of Aging: A Series on the Capabilities that Accrue with Longer Lives

Join us for the Columbia Aging Center’s ONLINE seminar–the first in a series that focuses on the assets of aging and the capabilities that accrue with longer lives. Please register to attend virtually on January 29, 2025. Details and registration link below.

 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2025, 11:30AM-1:00PM ET

Social Capital and the Societal Benefits of Healthy Aging

Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH

Director, Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center

Dean and DeLamar Professor

Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

 

Dawn C. Carr, PhD, MGS, FGSA

Director, Claude Pepper Center

Professor, Department of Sociology

Co-Director, Aging Research on Contexts, Health and Inequalities

Faculty Fellow, Office of the Vice President for Research

Florida State University

Virtual Seminar

Location: Zoom

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Abstract: The Columbia Aging Center Spring 2025 series focuses on the assets of aging featuring capabilities that accrue with longer lives. In this seminar,  we will offer evidence about how and why making healthy aging a public health priority could provide a significant benefit for society. This session will also describe factors that shape healthy aging, our changing needs and abilities as we age, and ways that social benefits can accrue if we rethink the potential capacity of older adults. Featuring Dr. Carr’s social capital framework for gerontology and the example of volunteering, we will examine how opportunities to ensure healthy aging lie in the expansion of purposeful roles in retirement and in the awareness of mutual benefit for society and its older adults who are able to remain engaged and to contribute in meaningful ways.

 

Event Contact Information:
Caitlin Hawke
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columbiaagingcenter@cumc.columbia.edu