Gerontology Series Speaker Will Discuss Chronic Illness Care

The Ithaca College Gerontology Institute’s Distinguished Speaker Series will continue on Thursday, November 1, with a talk by Robert B. Friedland, director of the Center on an Aging Society at Georgetown University. Friedland’s presentation, "More People with Chronic and Disabling Conditions: Who Will Be There to Care?" will start at 7:30 p.m. in Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

The Center on an Aging Society, of which Friedland is the founding director, is a public policy institute that fosters critical thinking about the implications of a society steadily growing older and conveys the findings to policy makers. Of particular interest is the impact of changing demographics on employment, income, health, and long-term care.

Friedland currently serves on the boards of the National Academy for State Health Policy, Americans Discuss Social Security, and the Long-Term Care Education Foundation. He is also a member of the editorial board of Aging Today. He has written on issues pertaining to the financing and delivery of health care, long-term care, and retirement income security. His book, Facing the Costs of Long-Term Care, was awarded the 1992 Elizur Wright Award by the American Risk and Insurance Association.

Friedland has served as chief economist for Maryland’s Medicaid program, director of the American Association of Retired Persons’ Public Policy Institute, and research director for the National Academy of Social Insurance. He holds a doctorate in economics from George Washington University.

The Gerontology Institute’s Distinguished Speaker Series brings leaders in the field of gerontology to campus each semester. In addition to the formal public presentation, speakers spend time on campus meeting faculty and students in informal sessions, guest lecturing in classes, and learning about gerontology activities at Ithaca College and in Tompkins County.

For more information call Terry Beckley at 274-1967.