The proposed third competing renewal application extends a successful Conference Series on Aging in the Americas (CAA). Previous international-CAA (ICAA) installments have had a distinctive focus and each resulted in peer-reviewed books and special journal issues as published on the CAA website. The next three iterations at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, (2020), The University of Illinois, Chicago (2021), and The University of California Los Angeles (2022), build upon the same very high quality of work at previous meetings to address a new theme that is a priority for the national health agenda. This will be accomplished by commissioning 36 papers, including six keynote speakers from sociology, psychology, demography, social policy, medicine, gerontology, and economics to address three major goals: First, to provide a vehicle for reviewing and analyzing the contemporary social science research on ?resilience,? the major dimensions of which are physical, cultural and economic as it relates to enhancing the health, wellbeing and function of aging Latinos in midlife and beyond; and second, to further the development of emerging scholars through their increased exposure to this body of knowledge, developing their individual research, and career mentoring. The ultimate objective of the series is to explore new science and applications of resilience; provide mentoring resources to help emerging scholars develop research program on resilience, serve as a catalyst for developing bi-national collaborative projects; and promote opportunities to use NIA data bases.
This application describes a series consisting of three new installments of the Conference Series on Aging in the Americas (CAA) otherwise known as ICAA will examine how resilience, variously defined and operationalized, affects social and behavioral pathways that strengthen health and foster well-being of older Latinos in Mexico and the United States.
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| Hill, Terrence D; Uchino, Bert N; Eckhardt, Jessica L et al. (2016) Perceived Social Support Trajectories and the All-Cause Mortality Risk of Older Mexican American Women and Men. Res Aging 38:374-98 |
| Gearry, Richard B (2016) Introduction. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 31 Suppl 1:23 |
| Angel, Jacqueline L; Vega, William; López-Ortega, Mariana (2016) Aging in Mexico: Population Trends and Emerging Issues. Gerontologist : |
| Mudrazija, Stipica; López-Ortega, Mariana; Vega, William A et al. (2016) Household Composition and Longitudinal Health Outcomes for Older Mexican Return Migrants. Res Aging 38:346-73 |
| Wong, Rebeca; Angel, Jacqueline L; Riosmena, Fernando (2016) Introduction to Special Issue. Res Aging 38:259-62 |
| Turra, Cassio M; Renteria, Elisenda; Guimarães, Raquel (2016) The Effect of Changes in Educational Composition on Adult Female Mortality in Brazil. Res Aging 38:283-98 |
| Whitfield, Keith E; Angel, Jacqueline L; Wong, Rebeca (2011) Biobehavioral aspects of health and aging among people of Mexican origin. J Aging Health 23:1019-26 |
| Aranda, María P; Ray, Laura A; Snih, Soham Al et al. (2011) The protective effect of neighborhood composition on increasing frailty among older Mexican Americans: a barrio advantage? J Aging Health 23:1189-217 |
