Summary

Dr. Phil Stafford of Indiana University and author of “Elderburbia, Aging with a Sense of Place in America”, will lead a discussion about how Atlanta and surrounding cities and towns can find creative and effective ways to plan for an aging population. A panel of local experts on this issue will join Dr. Stafford.

Speaker

Dr. Stafford directs the Center on Aging and Community at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, at Indiana University in Bloomington. A cultural anthropologist, Phil has been active in research, training, speaking and publishing around issues of community development for elder-friendly communities for three decades. He is a senior consultant with the AdvantAge Initiative, a national project that has supported community planning for aging in over 26 U.S communities and recently completed an Administration on Aging-funded statewide demonstration planning grant for the Indiana Division of Aging. Successive to that work, Stafford chairs a statewide committee entitled Hoosier Communities for a Lifetime, at the invitation of the Director, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority. Currently he provides technical assistance to 14 grantees participating in the U.S. Administration on Aging Community Innovations for Aging in Place initiative. He is a founding board member of the Memory Bridge Foundation and the author of numerous articles on culture and dementia, participatory research and planning and the meaning of home for older people. He is the editor of a Gray Areas: Ethnographic Encounters with Nursing Home Culture, 2003, SAR Press. His recent book, entitled Elderburbia: Aging with a Sense of Place in America, was published by Praeger Press in October, 2009.

Event Fees

• At door: $60
• CNU member: $40
• CNU Non-Member: $50
• Student, City/County Employee, or Elected Official: $25

Registration / More Information

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