Presentation on Diversity and Aging Will Take Place
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, November 19
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alka Gupta and Peg Byron
November, 2002 |
Brooklyn, N.Y. – "Diversity and Aging"
is the theme of a presentation by a professional panel of leaders
at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus.
Sponsored by the Campus's Department of Social Work, the Hartford
Foundation and the Provost's Office, the presentation will be
held on Tuesday, November 19 at 6 p.m. in the Health Sciences
Building, Room 107, and is free and open to the public.
Panelists will discuss the elderly and their attitudes towards
aging from diverse cultural, ethnic, and community perspectives,
including Chinese-American, African-American, Italian-American,
Holocaust survivors and gay and lesbian communities of older adults.
"We hope to look at the impact that ethnicity and community
has on the life tasks of older adults. We also hope to demonstrate
that communities are defined in many different ways and that even
within seemingly homogeneous communities much diversity exists,"
said Amy Krentzman, coordinator of the event and assistant professor
in the Social Work Department.
Panelists include Isabel Ching of City Hall Senior Center, Carolyn
Altman of Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE), Joan Pastore
of AMICO Senior Center, Naomi Singer of the Brooklyn Holocaust
Survivor Program, Carol Hunt of Jamaica Service Program for Older
Adults, and Professor Hildi Hendrickson of LIU's Anthropology
and Sociology Department.
For more information, call (718) 488-3372. |
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