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

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的美洲老龄问题系列会议（2012-2014年）新一期会议将重点关注满足拉丁美洲老年人需求和维持其健康和福祉的准备状态。 最尖锐的例子是墨西哥和美国的对比，因为这些社会都在应对公共使用稀缺资源的多种需求，并且有重叠，相互依赖的人口和家庭网络超越两国。 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的30篇论文和6位主旨发言人将1）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）为未来对美国和墨西哥拉美裔的跨国比较研究创建战略框架，包括问题识别和可用的数据资源，以推进关于这一基本问题的高质量研究菜单; 3）从两国的角度制定一套促进墨西哥裔人口健康老龄化的目标。总的来说，这项研究将为拉美裔社区提供有关美洲新兴趋势的健康后果的新知识，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。 公共卫生相关性：如果我们要为美国以及墨西哥和整个拉丁美洲的老龄化和保健问题提供政策解决方案，就需要对美国即将面临的老龄化和多样性之间的联系进行更深入的审查和分析。一个会议，特别侧重于增加学术拉丁美洲研究到老龄化过程中从一个两国，跨学科和比较的角度是至关重要的。美洲老龄化问题系列会议的下一部分将对知识基础做出实质性贡献，填补关于这一研究不足但日益突出的人口的信息空白，共识目标将为2020年美国国立卫生研究院健康人提供信息。

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.