Aging calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Abstracts: 39th Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Annual Meeting and Educational Leadership Conference

Waves of Change: Charting the Course for Gerontology Education

February 28 - March 3, 2013 St. Petersburg, Florida

JUNE 20, 2012:

Abstract Submission deadline
Pre-conference Institute deadline

The AGHE Annual Meeting and Educational Leadership Conference is the premier national forum for discussing ideas and issues in gerontological and geriatric education. Educators, clinicians, administrators, researchers, and students share their experiences, expertise, and innovations regarding teaching and learning about aging and older persons. Plan now to be part of this opportunity for professional growth and development.

Upon completion of the Annual Meeting, participants will be better able to:

Describe educational programs and models addressing gerontology and geriatric content at a variety of higher education and learner levels

Understand key educational public policy issues as they relate to funding for higher education and work force preparedness

Identify factors that facilitate gerontology and geriatric education program growth and sustainability

Utilize educational evaluation methods to document learner outcomes and program value

Compare and apply teaching materials, methods, and tools in a variety of content areas to improve their institution’s educational programs

Develop collaborative opportunities in the scholarship of teaching and learning, with national and international colleagues in the field of aging

Strengthen the learning experiences and mentoring available to students in the field of gerontology and geriatrics education

Call for Abstracts: Aging and Diseases of Aging

22 Oct 2012 through 27 Oct 2012 Tokyo, Japan

LANGUAGE NOTE: This meeting will be conducted in English.

On and before June 21, 2012, the cost is $50.00, which is deducted from your registration fee when you register for this meeting.

After June 21, 2012, there is an additional $50.00 fee, which is NOT deducted from the registration fee.

You may submit your abstract on the conference web site until July 25, 2012.

(After this date you will need to contact our office about submitting an abstract.)

Age-related diseases and disabilities, such as cancer, diabetes, and neuronal degeneration, pose an ever increasing social and economic burden worldwide. Fortunately, the last decades have witnessed dramatic progress in our understanding of the aging process. Genetic studies in particular have helped elucidate some of the molecular pathways that regulate the aging and offered new insights into the treatment of age-related diseases. However, there is still much to be learned and further progress in addressing the unique challenges of the aging population will require new insights and novel approaches. In order to accelerate the discovery process, this Keystone Symposia meeting will cover essential aspects of the aging processes, including cell signaling pathways, DNA stability, protein homeostasis, stem cells and cellular senescence. Each plenary session will emphasize innovative findings from a variety of models in basic research areas and link them to age-related disease and frailty. The ultimate goal is to provide an opportunity for attendees to communicate and promote an integrated understanding of aging and age-related diseases. The program for this meeting is highly likely to attract a wide variety of investigators, many of whom might not otherwise interact.

Keystone Symposia
Phone: +1 (800) 253-0685 or +1 (970) 262-1230
Fax: +1 (970) 262-1525
info@keystonesymposia.org

Call for Papers for Health-Related Sessions at the 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

August 5th-August 10th, 2013 Manchester, United Kingdom

The 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences has the overall theme "Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds".

The Call for Papers will close on July 13, 2012. The call for papers deadline applies to both papers proposed as additions to an existing panel and also to papers proposed to the holding panel. These deadlines are final and no further proposals will be accepted after these dates.

All Panels
-- BH01 Health, nutrition and physical growth in developing nations
-- BH02 Co-evolution of humans and their foods: cross-disciplinary perspectives (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition)
-- BH12 Forensic anthropology; emerging issues and challenges in the 21st century
-- LD01 The vulnerable child: biological responses to life in the past
-- LD02 The role of cosmopolitan-modern medicine and its social and cultural challenges
-- LD03 Health and emerging regional demographic trends
-- LD04 The future agenda for anthropological research on the HIV/AIDS pandemic (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of AIDS)
-- LD05 Urbanization and reproductive health (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
-- LD06 Anthropologies in and of Public Health in the 21st century
-- LD07 Landscapes of life-and-death in India, South Arabia and Asia Minor
-- LD08 Social debate over the prevention, mitigation and rehabilitation for disaster affected children
-- LD09 Anthropology of ageing
-- LD10 Menopausal woman and assisted reproduction: rights to access of ART in an ethical context (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
-- LD11 The states of welfare and wellbeing of indigenous populations?
-- LD12 Health and nutrition: changes in lifestyle in the era of globalization
-- LD13 Gender equity in nutrition and child health
-- LD14 Disjunctions of deathscapes: ways of suffering, dying, and death
-- LD15 Status of the aged in the Third World
-- LD16 Techniques of healing in traditional societies
-- LD18 Dominant caste and their culture: health perspective of the indigenous communities in the south Asian subcontinent and beyond
-- LD19 Traditional and medicinal knowledge among the indigenous communities
-- LD22 The problems and values of old age in postmodern era
-- LD23 Tribal health: emerging consequences in the era of globalization
-- LD24 Documenting the meanings of life and death in the Americas
-- LD25 Health concerns of women during and after menopause
-- LD26 Identified skeletal collections: the testing ground of anthropology?
-- MMM10 Interdisciplinary perspectives on identity, food and wellbeing of migrants I: global resource flows, political contestations and health
-- MMM11 Interdisciplinary perspectives on identity, food and wellbeing of migrants II: memory, emotional sustenance and culinary practices
-- MMM18 Sanitising migration: epidemiology or medical police?
-- PE03 Food and environmental security: the imperatives of indigenous knowledge systems
-- PE06 Food security and rural development
-- PE21 Human life, enterprise and market (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
-- PE24 How women are affected by local vs. corporate food systems (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women)
-- PE25 Sustainable livelihood security and human development
-- PE26 Plants utility by ethnic communities of eastern India for nutritional and health security, past-present and future
-- PE28 Anthropology of food and nutrition in the globalized economy
-- PE31 Ethnomedicinal properties of traditional vegetables: the present status and future journey
-- SE23 Action anthropology, tribal medicine and development
-- SE24 Exclusion of de-notified (ex-criminal tribes) and nomadic tribes in India: issues and challenges for inclusion
-- SE25 Health activism in the context of 'global health'
-- WMW01 Medical anthropology for a better tomorrow: exploring the mind, medicine and mental health

Call for Papers: International Telecommunication Union Kaleidoscope 2013 Building Sustainable Communities Academic Conference

22–24 April 2013, Kyoto, Japan

Kaleidoscope 2013 Building Sustainable Communities is the fifth in a series of peer-reviewed academic conferences organized
by ITU that brings together a wide range of views from universities, industry and research institutions of different fields. The aim of Kaleidoscope conferences is to identify emerging developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at an early stage to generate successful products and services through the development of international and open standards.

Future technologies should be designed to enhance the quality of human life. Kaleidoscope 2013 will, therefore, highlight multidisciplinary aspects of future ICTs including future services and applications demand as well as socio-economic, cultural, ethical, legal, and sustainable development policy aspects of communities of the future.

ICTs can be used as a catalyst for transforming life to meet the challenges of the new millennium, including global economic and
financial crises, high unemployment rates, accessibility issues, global diseases, food availability and distribution, climate change,
environmental disasters, energy consumption, transport systems, safety, security, and welfare.

Sustainable communities will combine human-oriented technologies and human values.

Besides technical issues, building sustainable communities also raises ethical concerns such as responsibility for future generations and for the environment, as well as for data and information privacy. Therefore, an improved understanding of technology, its suitable application, and a high consideration of its potential consequences are necessary.

To address these issues, and for a co-evolution of technology and sustainable communities, standards are indispensable. Developing these standards will require concerted global efforts by inter-sectoral stakeholders. This conference will help to further such collaborations.

Building Sustainable Communities is calling for original academic papers offering innovative and bold approaches in research
and development to build smart, ethical, and sustainable communities.

Submission of papers
Prospective authors, from countries that are Members of ITU, are invited to submit complete, original papers with a maximum
length of 4,500 words within eight pages including summary and references, using the template available on the event website.
Paper proposals will be evaluated according to content, originality, clarity, relevance to the conference’s theme and, in particular, significance to future standards.

Suggested (non-exclusive) list of topics

Track 1: Technology and architecture evolution

-- Long-distance and ultra-high-speed transmission network systems (terabit, exabit)
-- Disaster relief systems, network resilience and recovery
-- Wireless sensor networks
-- Optical wireless communication
-- Human-centric, cognitive and context-aware systems
-- Machine-to-machine communication and Internet of Things
-- Body-area networks
-- Near-field communications
-- Environmental and biometric actuators and sensors
-- Security and privacy-enhancing technologies
-- Pervasive and trusted network and service infrastructure
-- Mobility and nomadicity
-- Adaptive antenna techniques

Track 2: ICT applications and services for sustainable communities

-- e-government and e-democracy
-- e-learning and e-science
-- e-agriculture
-- e-health and telemedicine
-- Ageing and ambient assistive living
-- Smart cities: utilities, transport, buildings and homes
-- Innovative applications and content delivery (IPTV, games, etc.)
-- Mobile payment and money transfer
-- Augmented reality and technology intelligence
-- Location-based services
-- Service layer requirements
-- XaaS (Anything as a Service)
-- QoS for differentiated source
-- Location services

Track 3: Social, economic and policy aspects of ICT in sustainable communities

-- Digital rights and identity management
-- Societal impact
-- Legislative and regulatory frameworks
-- Security, confidentiality and privacy
-- Accessibility and usability
-- Business models (including accounting, billing and charging)
-- Standardization models
-- Network neutrality
-- Inclusiveness, affordability and equal access
-- Internationalization and localization
-- Environmental sustainability
-- Ethical issues
-- Regulation (for QoS, network sharing, etc.)
-- Standardization and innovation management
-- Stakeholder perceptions in standards
-- Standards in healthcare services

Deadlines
Submission of full paper proposals: 10 September 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: 12 November 2012
Submission of camera-ready accepted papers: 3 December 2012

Contact: kaleidoscope@itu.int

Call for Presentations & Posters: American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2013 Annual Meeting

March 14 – March 17, 2013 Los Angeles, California

The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Annual Meeting Program Committee invites you to submit a proposal for consideration at the 2013 Annual Meeting to be held in Los Angeles March 14 – March 17, 2013. The AAGP 2013 conference theme focuses on ensuring that geriatric mental health providers have all of the tools and resources they need to ensure state-of-the art care and the highest quality of life for the older individuals whom we serve. We invite you to submit a proposed session, clinical case presentation, or poster for this dynamic and exciting meeting.

There are many venues at the AAGP Annual Meeting that invite innovative and interactive learning targeted towards clinicians, researchers, and educators. Clinicians and investigators in all arenas of geriatric psychiatry, psychology, neurology, medicine, nursing, social work, and other related disciplines are encouraged to submit abstracts of original work for presentation at the AAGP Annual Meeting. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the 2013 AAGP Annual Meeting Program Committee. It is requested that all program proposals include some content on their applicability to clinical practice using an interdisciplinary team approach in order to address care from the perspective of many healthcare disciplines. The Program Committee encourages the involvement of trainees and early career professionals as session presenters. Please consider including an early career clinician or investigator as part of your presenter panel. Additionally, submitters are encouraged to consider any special patient care needs of minority or underserved populations.

Submissions for live symposia or case conferences may be made online at www.AAGPmeeting.org April 16 - June 11, 2012. Submissions for new research posters must be submitted no later than October 1, 2012 and submissions for early investigator posters must be submitted no later than October 15, 2012. In 2012, the Program Committee has added a few, select slots for late-breaking research posters that may be submitted by January 15, 2013.

Final decision of acceptance by the 2013 Annual Meeting Program Committee will be made no later than August 15, 2012; final decision of acceptance of all posters will be made no later than December 1, 2012.

Many people who attend the AAGP Annual Meeting do not attend any other scientific meeting. This is an important venue to present original research, new data, exciting clinical applications, service delivery initiatives, educational activities, and other pioneering work impacting our field today.

Questions? Contact AAGP at 301-654-7850 ext. 105 or meetinginfo@aagponline.org if you have questions regarding the submission criteria or the Annual Meeting.

Call for Papers: Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Conference on Mathematics of Medical Devices and Surgical Procedures

Extended deadline

Mathematics is playing an ever increasing role in the area of health and medicine, through the use of modelling, statistics, and virtual simulations. These mathematical tools are becoming invaluable in testing the feasibility of surgical procedures and medical devices prior to clinical trials. Furthermore, there is a very realistic possibility over the next twenty years that computer models coupled to patient-specific imaging will be used in real time in the clinical environment to directly advise on treatment strategies. The aim of this conference is to bring together the diverse community of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, clinicians involved in using applied sciences and mathematics to develop and use medical devices to discuss both the latest research and the needs of the clinical community and patients.

The topics that will be discussed will broadly include cardiovascular devices, medical imaging, ophthalmology, cell biology, disease transmission, orthopaedic, advanced simulations, as well as health in ageing. The conference programme will include keynote speakers drawn from both clinical and mathematical communities, along with contributed presentations and poster sessions. The programme will also include breakout sessions in certain topics as well as refreshment breaks for informal discussions. Social events include a drinks reception and a conference dinner.

Call for Papers instructions:
Papers will be accepted for the conference based on a 250 word abstract for oral presentation. Abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1 June 2012 either online at http://online.ima.org.uk or by e-mail to conferences@ima.org.uk.

Please state whether your title is intended for oral or poster presentation. Oral presentations are expected to be 20 minutes in length, including time for questions and answers.

Abstracts are expected to follow the following template:

Title
Contributing author(s) Surname, Initials
Affiliation(s) Department, organisation.

Abstract: 250 words - text only.

Contact information
For scientific queries please contact Ian Eames (i.eames@ucl.ac.uk) or Nick Ovenden (nicko@math.ucl.ac.uk).
For general conference queries please contact Lizzi Lake, Conference Officer
E-mail: conferences@ima.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1702 354 020
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1EF, UK.

Call for Papers: Determinants of Unusual and Differential Longevity

International Conference

Vienna, 21 - 23 November 2012

This scientific meeting aims at developing a comprehensive picture of the factors decisive for human longevity. Papers will identify the key drivers of longer lives by explaining variations in mortality and longevity. This includes the analysis of hitherto unexplained phenomena and paradoxes of longevity, among them the causes (biological and/or non-biological) underlying unusual mortality patterns of subpopulations with specific, longevity-relevant characteristics, the factors determining mortality and longevity differentials between population subgroups, and changes in longevity over time. The presentations are expected to focus on overall mortality, age-specific mortality and/or causes of death. Empirical studies, theoretical papers and overviews are welcome.

More specifically, papers could address some of the following topics:

Paradoxes of longevity and mortality as well as unexplained phenomena, e.g. the exceptionally high life expectancy of the Japanese population, the low mortality of migrants (healthy migrant paradox), the mortality crossover of blacks and whites in the US, etc.

Mortality and longevity of subpopulations with very specific health characteristics or behaviours, risk factors, life course events or living conditions typical for such groups as learned societies, vegetarians, smokers and/or non-smokers, drinkers, centenarians and supercentenarians, religious groups or prisoners

‘Longevity islands’ such as Sardinia, Vilcabamba, Okinawa, Caucasus and Altay

Determinants of differentials in longevity and mortality such as differentials by sex, education, occupation, regions and ethnicity

Plasticity of mortality in human and non-human populations

Other studies that add pieces to the ‘puzzle of the determinants of longevity’

The conference will be co-ordinated by Marc Luy and Bill Butz. Selected conference contributions will be published in the thematic issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2013 after scientific review. The Yearbook will be widely circulated in hard copy and is freely available on the web (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/yearbook). This rather young journal already has a high impact factor.

Please send your 1-page abstract to conference.vid@oeaw.ac.at
by 30 June 2012. Successful submitters will be informed by 1 September 2012.
 

Call for Oral & Poster Abstracts: IAGG (International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics) 20th World Congress

June 23-27, 2013 Seoul, South Korea

Main Theme
Digital @geing: A New Horizon for Health Care and Active Ageing

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31, 2012

The Scientific Program Committee of the 20th IAGG World congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics cordially invites you to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. Abstracts should be submitted online. All abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific program committee and assigned to the appropriate session for oral and poster presentations.

Main Themes
The congress program is primarily organized around four main themes:

· Biological Science
· Clinical Medicine
· Social & Behavioral Science
· Research, Policy and Practice

Call for Submitted Symposia: IAGG (International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics) 20th World Congress

June 23-27, 2013 Seoul, South Korea

Main Theme
Digital @geing: A New Horizon for Health Care and Active Ageing

Important Dates
· Period: September 1st 2011 ~ May 31st 2012
· Notification of Acceptance: September 2012
· Notification of Presentation schedule: October 2012
· Final list of accepted proposals: October 2012

Main Themes
The congress program is primarily organized around four main themes:

· Biological Science
· Clinical Medicine
· Social & Behavioral Science
· Research, Policy and Practice

Call for Papers: Relational Selves and Families in Medicine: Gender Perspectives

Conference Dec 10-12, 2012, Linköping, Sweden

In many cases, there is only one patient in the patient-health care professional encounter. This, however, is not always the case. As some examples, two individuals may seek medical assistance in order to conceive a child together and more individuals may be involved if a sibling donates egg or sperm to a family-member and her/his partner.

Many other examples can be given of encounters and treatments that involve more than one patient and one health care professional. When the patient is a minor child, parent(s) may face difficult treatment decisions as regards medical treatment for their children. If two parents are involved in the decision, they may not always agree on what is the best treatment for their child. And what say does the child have in terms of treatments? As yet another example, cases of sibling organ donation where a sibling donates an organ to a brother or sister highlight how intimately family members can become involved in each other’s medical treatment. Finally, the topic of families in medicine can be pertinent in relation to aging and health care needs in later life, where relatives can become thoroughly involved in this care and where gender roles can feed into this care work.

Still, comparably little attention has been given to the role of families in medical encounters, treatment decisions, care work and illness experiences.

The aim of the conference

Relational selves and families in medicine: Gender Perspectives is to bring together scholars who examine the role of extended families, parents, siblings, children, and close friends in medicine, and this with a gender perspective. We welcome contributions from scholars with interdisciplinary and various disciplinary backgrounds within the social sciences and the humanities. We specially invite contributions that focus on (but are not limited to):

Assisted reproductive technologies, surrogacy, egg-, sperm- and embryo donation, adoption and other ways of becoming parents

The welfare of the child in medicine

Conceptions and norms of parenthood in medicine

Corrective measures: what is ‘corrected’ and why, in children’s and teen-agers’ bodies?

Ageing and care in later life

- Relational conceptions of selves and relational autonomy

- The interplay between self and others, and how this can inform the illness experience as well as experiences of hope, strength and health.

Abstract submission

Please submit abstracts (400 words) incl. name and affiliation, no later than September 1, 2012, to abstracts.genderandhealth@gmail.com. The Conference Committee will select abstracts for oral presentation and notify whether or not you have been accepted.

Registration

Deadline for registration is October 15, 2012. Conference fee (100 Euro) covers one conference abstract booklet, coffee in pauses and one conference dinner. Register by sending an e-mail to conference.genderandhealth@gmail.com in which you state name, affiliation, allergies/food preferences. The conference fee is to be submitted using one of the alternatives below.

Participants with a Swedish bank account: Please use the account Bankgiro 743-8609 (Danske Bank). The reference nr: 8831030001, your name and affiliation must be included in the payment.

Participants with an international bank account: Please use the account: 8901-1 924 339 671-1. Address: Swedbank, S-105 34 Stockholm, Sweden, BIC: SWEDSESS, IBAN: SE34 8000 0890 1192 4339 6711. Please note that the reference nr: 8831030001, your name and affiliation must be included in the payment.

Any questions and enquiries can be sent to conference: genderandhealth@gmail.com