The Conference Series on Aging in the Americas (CAA) utilizes research to augment knowledge about dimensions of healthful aging for people of Hispanic and Latin American descent. As this topic rapidly develops as a major policy and national budget issue, the CAA also aims to foster emerging scholars in the field. Iterations of the conference series, ICAA meetings, are held each year.
Updates:
The 2020 ICAA is RESCHEDULED.
The meeting will be held September 23-24, 2021 and hosted by UTMB (the University of Texas Medical Branch) Galveston. ICAA Program Co-Organizers include: Kyriakos Markides (UTMB) kmarkides@utmb.edu, Verónica Montes De Oca (UNAM) vmoiis@gmail.com, and Rogelio Saenz (UTSA) Rogelio.saenz@utsa.edu.
View the Save the Date flyer here and the Call for Abstracts here.
The January 2021 ICAA Newsletter is available here.
New book edited by CAA Organizers:
Please click here to find more information about the 2018 publication, Contextualizing Health and Aging in the Americas: Effects of Space, Time and Place, edited by William A. Vega, Jacqueline L. Angel, Luis Miguel F. Gutiérrez Robledo, and Kyriakos Markides.
CAA’s investigators and advisory team lead the conference each year with the generous support of grantees, sponsors, and partners. The CAA Mentoring Program offers a unique opportunity for emerging scholars to participate in a juried poster session and engage with expert researchers on issues related to their field of study.
Learn more at About the CAA.
Comments from Conference Attendees:
“Fantastic conference and speakers, I can’t wait for the next one.”
“A valuable and meaningful conference on Mexican Americans.”
“Thank you for making this conference available. It was very informative and I was impressed with the professional experts on Hispanic aging.”