CONFERENCE - STRUCTURE AND AGING

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求资金继续进行一系列会议，旨在探索与社会宏观和微观结构研究有关的学科之间的接口，以及那些专门研究人类衰老过程中个体差异的学科。以前的会议讨论了社会结构和老龄化主题：心理过程（1986年）；文化视角下的年龄结构（1987）；自我指导与效能：贯穿生命历程的因果关系（1988）老龄化、健康行为和健康结果（1989年）；社会结构和照料：家庭和跨国观点（1990年）；社会对老龄化的影响：历史视角（1991）；社会结构与老龄化：代际视角（1992）；维持个人能力的社会机制（1993年）；社会结构对老年人决策的影响（1994年）；工作场所对老龄人的影响（1995年）；流动性与老龄化（1997）；社会对老龄化自我的影响（1998）；社会结构和有效的健康行为（1999年）；老年人的掌握与控制（2000）；技术与成功老龄化的影响（2001）。关于“宗教组织对老年人健康和福利的影响”主题的第十六届会议正在筹备中，会议将于2002年举行。拟议的会议将讨论：历史事件对老年人的影响（2003年；格伦·埃德，联合主席）；社会结构、老龄化和老年人的自我调节（2004;Laura Carstensen, co . chair）；《人口变化对老年人健康和福祉的影响》（2005年，Peter Uhlenberg，联合主席）。每次提议的会议将有18名受邀与会者和最多100名观察员参加。论文和讨论将由会议组织者在各自的“老龄化社会影响”系列中编辑出版。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests funds to continue a series of conferences designed to explore the interfaces between disciplines concerned with the study of social macro- and micro-structures, and those disciplines specifically concerned with the investigation of individual differences in human aging processes. Prior conferences have addressed Social Structure and Aging topics: Psychological Processes (1986); Age Structures in Cultural Perspective (1987); Self-directedness and Efficacy: Causes and Effects Throughout the Life Course (1988); Aging, Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes (1989); Social Structures and Caregiving: Family and Cross National Perspectives (1990); Societal Impact on Aging: Historical Perspectives (1991 ); Social Structure and Aging: Intergenerational Perspectives (1992); Societal Mechanisms that Maintain Individual Competence (1993); Impact of Social Structures on Decision Making in the Elderly (1994); Impact of the Workplace on the Aging Individual (1995); Mobility and Aging (1997); Impact of Society on the Aging Self (1998); Social Structures and Effective Health Behaviors (1999); Mastery and Control in the Elderly (2000); and Impact of Technology and Successful Aging (2001). A sixteenth conference on the topic of Impact of Religious Organizations on Health and Well-being in the Elderly to be held in 2002 is in preparation. The proposed conferences will address: Impact of Historical Events on the Elderly, (2003; Glen EIder, co-chair); Social Structures, Aging and Self Regulation in the Elderly (2004; Laura Carstensen, co,chair); and Impact of Demographic Changes on Health and Well-being tin the Elderly (2005, Peter Uhlenberg, co-chair). Each proposed conference will involve 18 invited participants and up to 100 observers. Papers and discussions will be published in volumes edited by the conference organizers of the respective "Societal Impacts on Aging" series.