CFP: Health, Culture, Human Body (conference)

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The 2nd international and interdisciplinary conference on Health, Culture and the Human Body: Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from Turkey and Central Europe Istanbul, Turkey, 13-15 September 2012 Demographic change in a globalized world raises not only social and economic issues but also ethical problems within the medical system of [...]

CFS: Anthropology & Aging Quarterly

Call for Submissions: Anthropology & Aging Quarterly | The Official Journal of the Association of Anthropology and Gerontology Anthropology & Aging Quarterly is the official publication of the Association for Anthropology & Gerontology (AAGE). It is published quarterly (February, May, August, November) by AAGE. AAGE is a nonprofit organization established in 1978 as a multidisciplinary [...]

CFP: Integrative Medicine After the Age of 40

Integrative Medicine After the Age of 40: The International Conference on Integrative Medicine, May 13-15, 2012, Jerusalem The 2nd International Conference on Integrative Medicine will be held on May 13-15, 2012 in Jerusalem, Israel. The conference will bring together physicians, nurses and therapists from all over the world to discuss the changes and influence of [...]

CFS: The Gerontologist (Aging Baby Boomers)

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of The Gerontologist: Not Your Mother’s Old Age: Baby Boomers at 65 This year the first of the Baby Boom cohort reached age 65 and for the next 19 years, close to 10,000 people a day will celebrate their 65th birthday. Baby Boomers redefined each stage of life [...]

CFS: Nursing Forum

Does Your Paper Belong in Nursing Forum? New editor Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, RN, EdD, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN invites your manuscript submissions that deal with the latest issues facing the nursing profession today. The editor is looking for papers on these specific topics: Future of Nursing Aging of the Profession Nursing Leadership Continuing Confidence Workplace Violence [...]

CFS: Aging and End of Life (Am J Intellectual Developmental Disabilities)

Call for submissions for a special issue of the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Aging and End of Life. The purpose of this special issue is to present a collection of papers that bring new insight from a variety of perspectives and disciplines to the ways in which older adults with IDD can [...]

CFP: Berkshire Conference on Women’s History

Berkshire Conference on Women’s History: “GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space” (June 9-12, 2011, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Proposals due March 1, 2010 Complete information at: http://www.berksconference.org/ The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is holding its next conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on June 9-12, 2011. 2011 marks [...]

CFS: Adult Children Caring for Parents (Book)

ADULT CHILDREN caring for parents, directly or at a distance—editor seeks creative nonfiction for anthology on trials and pleasures of tending those who tended us. Aging, dying; medical, financial challenges; siblings, sandwich generation. Narrative, lyrical, or meditative essays. Reflective, experimental, humorous, or mixture. Above all, elegantly written. Janet Wondra, editor. Postmark deadline: January 15, 2010. [...]

CFS: The Aging Wave (Nursing Administration Quarterly, Upcoming Issue Topics 2008 to 2010)

The Aging Wave: Are We Ready? Vol. 34:1,  Oct. 1, 2009, Marilyn Rantz, Issue Editor With the rapid growth of aging Americans, are health care systems ready? What changes have nursing administrators made to address the changing needs of the aging patients they now serve? What political initiatives are needed? How will recent political shifts [...]