4-0360 RECOGNITION, VISIBILITY, AND BEING HUMAN: LESSONS FROM AGING RESEARCH

Friday, November 18, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Caitrin Lynch (Olin College)

Chairs: Caitrin Lynch (Olin College)

Discussants: Sarah E Lamb (Brandeis University)

10:15

Recognition and Visibility In Medical Science: How Geriatrics Research Excludes People with Dementia

Janelle S Taylor (University of Washington)

10:30

Neighborhood Heroines: Suffering and Recognition of Elders' Family Caregiving in a Southern Brazilian City

Diana Brown (Bard College)

10:45

Recognition On the Line: Value and Purpose for Older Adult Factory Workers In the United States

Caitrin Lynch (Olin College)

11:00

Shelter or Shame: Sri Lankan Views On Nursing Homes

Michele R Gamburd (Portland State University)

11:15

Beyond Discourses of Rights and Personhood: Toward a Contextualized Praxis of Human Dignity

Athena McLean PhD (Central Michigan University)

11:30

Discussant

Sarah E Lamb (Brandeis University)

11:45

Discussion

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