Mark your calendars with upcoming international aging-related conferences and events.
Every four years, the World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics represents a unique and irreplaceable event attended by experts from around the world to discuss the latest findings in the field of ageing.
IAHSA's 2009 International Conferences will be the premier international event where leaders and leadership teams from our Global Ageing Network gather for three days of networking and shared learning.
The issues of ageing and spirituality will bediscussed against the backdrop of gender, culture,and new models of care. Registration required.
The Ageing in Europe Research Network will again hold paper sessions that focus on empirical, theoretical and conceptual aspects of research on ageing. The deadline for web submission of abstracts is 26th February 2009. Registration will be available on the conference Web site.

The Diversity and Aging in the 21st Century Conference is designed to address the challenges faced by diverse populations as they age. It will purposefully bring together the field of diversity and the field of aging to examine their impact on our society. June 8-10, 2009, Chicago, IL, USA

In October 2008, AARP and the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (Vienna) convened experts from 20 countries to examine how the expanded European Union and neighboring countries in Central and Eastern Europe are "reinventing retirement," i.e. reshaping health and financial security as a consequence of rapidly aging populations and rapidly transitioning economies and societies.
Co-hosted by the Embassy of the Czech Republic, this briefing will highlight key conclusions from the conference, the state of aging in Europe (with a particular emphasis on the newest member states of the EU), and the main goals of the EU during the Czech Presidency (January-June 2009).

AARP, in cooperation with the United Nations Programme on Ageing, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), organized a series of briefings from 3 to 4 February 2009. These events commemorated the 10th anniversary of the International Year of Older Persons. Simultaneously, the UN Commission for Social Development devoted its forty-seventh session (4-13 February 2009) to discussions on the priority theme of Social Integration, including intergenerational integration.

The Asia Society and AARP hosted a discussion of how the current global financial and economic crisis is disproportionately impacting Asia's older populations. This briefing provided insights from AARP's 'Reinventing Retirement Asia: Employment and Active Engagement Beyond 50' Conference, held in Singapore on January 8 - 9, 2009.

AARP International and the Council for Third Age (C3A) will be co-organising the 'Reinventing Retirement Asia: Employment and Active Engagement Beyond 50' Conference on January 8-9, 2009 in Singapore.