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Facilitators: Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan and Curtis Fox
We have known for many years that poverty is bad for children, but why is that? A principal reason for poverty’s adverse impacts on children is because of the confluence of physical and psychosocial risks that disadvantaged children must regularly contend with, says presenter Dr. Gary Evans. He will review descriptive data from a wide range of studies, will document the panoply of risks that low SES children endure, and provide an in-depth look at a longitudinal research program designed to investigate the role of cumulative risk exposure in conveying poverty’s ill effects on human development.
With the aging of the U.S. population, increasing numbers of older adults will experience chronic disabilities requiring care. Currently family caregivers provide the majority of care for impaired older adults, often at great sacrifice to the caregiver’s own well-being, and changing social and economic circumstances can provide even greater challenges in the years ahead. This presentation addresses how social and economic changes affect family caregivers now and in the years to come.
Sponsored by the Family and Health Section and the Issues in Aging Focus Group.
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