NYU Silver CHAI at GSA 2022

NYU Silver’s  Center for Health and Aging Innovation (CHAI) will have a strong presence at the Gerontological Society of America 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting, which is taking place November 2-6, 2022 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

In addition, Associate Professor and CHAI Director Ernest Gonzales, who is also Co-Lead of the Grand Challenges for Social Work Advance Long and Productive Lives challenge, will present on the challenge “De-center Whiteness in our Theories and Methods” at the GSA 2022 Pre-Conference Workshop “Reimagining 'Productive Aging' for a Post-COVID World: Critical Reflections and New Directions.”

Please see our full schedule of presentations below.

NYU Silver CHAI Presentation Schedule:

Friday, November 4, 2022

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Indiana Convention Center Exhibit Hall DE CC
Session: Adult Protection, Elder Abuse, and Ageism

Poster: Exploring Ageism Within the Family

First Author: Stacey Gordon, MSW, DSW ’22, and Program Director Next Phase Adult Caregiving, Aging and Retirement At NYU Work Life

Second Author: Ernest Gonzales, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor; Director of the MSW Program and The Center for Health and Aging Innovation

This study presents the problem of ageism in the family through the lens of larger social structural factors shaping meso- and micro- level behaviors.

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Indiana Convention Center 120-121 CC
Session: Presidential Symposium: The Intersection of Age and Race: Impact on Reimagining Aging 

Individual Symposium: Ending Ageism Isn’t Enough: Infusing an Intersectional Lens to Advance Productive Aging Research and Health

First Author: Ernest Gonzales, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor; Director of the MSW Program and The Center for Health and Aging Innovation

This presentation integrates anti-racism, anti-ageism and Health Equity lenses into the productive aging scholarship.

Saturday, November 5, 2022

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Indiana Convention Center Exhibit Hall DE CC
Session: Cognition and Aging

Poster: Structural Discriminatory Factors Related to Cognitive Functioning Among Older Hispanics: Results from HRS

First Author: Ernest Gonzales, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor; Director of the MSW Program and The Center for Health and Aging Innovation

Second Author: Cliff Whetung, BA, MSW; PhD Candidate

This study examined cognitive Health trajectories among 1,513 Hispanic men and women in the health and retirement study (2008 to 2020) with mixed effects regression.

Sunday, November 6, 2022

10:00am - 11:30am
Indiana Convention Center 203 CC
Session: Assessment of Persons with ADRD in Community and Acute Care Settings

Paper: Finding the Minds of Our Elders: Testing the Minority Stress and Cognition Model with Indigenous Older Adults

First Author: Cliff Whetung, BA, MSW; PhD Candidate

This study used data from the health and retirement study data to investigate how an understudy group of indigenous older adults in the United States fared over a 14-year period (2006-2020) in the domain of global cognitive function.