Senior Citizen Sex Survey Topic of Gerontology Lecture

The sexual health and habits of older Americans will be the focus of the next talk in the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute Distinguished Lecture Series. Neal Cutler, director of survey research for the National Council on Aging (NCOA), will discuss "Sex after 60: Results of the National Survey" on Monday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall. His talk is free and open to the public.

For the past 30 years Cutler has been conducting demographic and public opinion research on the impact of aging as it relates to issues of health and finance. He is the director of "Financial Literacy 2000," a national study of financial knowledge and consumer confidence concerning health and retirement. At NCOA he is directing studies of public understanding of long-term care, attitudes toward aging and sexuality, public and health professionals’ knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease, and effects of untreated hearing loss on the quality of life of older persons. He is the coauthor of the book Can You Afford to Retire? and has written or edited for such publications as Psychology Today, Journal of Gerontology, and Public Opinion Quarterly.

Cutler has several concurrent academic appointments. He holds an endowed chair in financial gerontology at Widener University, is an adjunct professor of gerontology and social policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a senior fellow at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He currently chairs the National Institute on Financial Issues and Services for Elders and is a fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the Employee Benefit Research Institute. From 1979 to 1981 he served on the staff of the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging.

For more information, contact the Gerontology Institute at 274-1965.