Conference Series on Aging in the Americas: United States and Mexico

描述（由申请人提供）：美洲老龄化问题系列会议（2012-2014年）的新一期会议将重点关注解决拉丁裔老年人需求和维持其健康和福祉的准备状况。最令人心酸的例子是美墨关系。相比之下，这些社会正在与公共使用稀缺资源的多重需求作斗争，并且具有重叠，相互依存的人口和超越两国的家庭网络。来自社会学、心理学、社会政策、医学、经济学、老年学、人口学、流行病学和社区卫生等领域的30篇论文和6位主题演讲者将讨论人口结构变化对社区成功老龄化能力的影响，包括健康、住房和食品安全；2)为未来美国和墨西哥拉美裔人的跨国比较研究创建战略框架，包括问题识别和可用数据资源，以推进这一基本问题的高质量研究菜单；3)从两国视角制定一套促进墨西哥裔人口健康老龄化的目标。总的来说，这项研究将提供关于美洲新趋势对西班牙裔社区健康影响的新知识，并将为新的战略举措提供信息，以充分应对人口老龄化加速的需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed new installments of the conference series on aging in the Americas (2012-2014) will focus on the state of readiness for addressing the needs of Latino elders and for sustaining their health and well-being. The most poignant example is the Mexico-U.S. contrast as these societies are contending with multiple demands for public use of scarce resources and have overlapping, interdependent populations and family networks transcending both nations. Thirty papers and six keynote speakers from sociology, psychology, social policy, medicine, economics, gerontology, demography, epidemiology, and community health will 1) discuss the impact of changing demographics on community capacity for successful aging, including health, housing, and food security; 2) create a strategic framework for future transnational comparative research on Hispanics in the U.S. and Mexico, including issue identification and the available data resources for advancing a high quality research menu on this fundamental issue; and 3) develop a set of goals for advancing the healthy aging in the Mexican origin population from a bi-national perspective. Collectively, the research will provide new knowledge on the health consequences of emerging trends in the Americas for Hispanic communities and will inform new strategic initiatives to adequately respond to the accelerating demands of aging populations. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The coming nexus of aging and diversity faced by the United States will require a greater level of scrutiny and analysis if we are to provide policy solutions to aging and health care in the United States and, by example, in Mexico and throughout Latin America. A conference focusing specifically on increasing scholarly Latino research into the aging process from a bi-national, interdisciplinary, and comparative perspective is vital. The next installments of the Conference Series on Aging in the Americas will make a substantive contribution to the knowledge base, filling a significant vacuum of information on this under-studied but increasingly prominent population and the consensus objectives will inform the NIH Healthy People 2020.