Lecture on Politics and Implications of the Aging of the Baby Boom

WORCESTER, Mass. – The politics and implications of the aging of the "baby boom" is the topic of a lecture at the Consortium Gerontology Studies Program Annual Event at Holy Cross on Monday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. The event will take place in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center; it is free and open to the public.

Professor Robert H. Binstock will deliver the lecture. He is Professor of Aging, Health and Society and Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.

Binstock received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1965. Since then, he has been a nationally recognized scholar in the field of gerontology, teaching at both Brandeis University and Harvard University. He is the author of numerous publications on gerontology including, Feasible Planning for Social Change (Morris & Binstock, 1996); he is co-editor of five editions of the Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences (Binstock & George, 1996).

Binstock has published widely on the Older Americans Act; health care, health policy and biomedical ethics; and long-term care and Alzheimer's disease. He has held prestigious leadership positions in the field of aging, such as Executive Director of the White House Task Force on Older Americans for President Lyndon B. Johnson (1967-68).

The former Chair of the Adult Development and Aging Research and Training Review Committee, National Institutes of Health (1970 - 71), Binstock served as President of the Gerontological Society of America (1975 - 76) and more recently, as Chair of the Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association (1996 - 97).

This lecture is sponsored by the following organizations at Holy Cross: the Gerontology Studies Program, the dean of the College and the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies. It is also sponsored by the following community organizations: Fallon Community Health Plan, the Consortium Gerontology Studies Program, the Central Massachusetts Agency on Aging, the Jewish Family Services and the Massachusetts Gerontological Association.