“Memories of the Christmas presents I got as a child have long faded,” said Rhoda Meador, director of the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute. “But I can still visualize my grandmother at the stove, frying bacon and eggs in her cast iron skillet, while we had heart-to-heart talks before my parents woke up.”

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 ITHACA, NY — Kathy Greenlee, assistant secretary for aging at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will visit Ithaca College on Thursday, April 12, to give a free talk, “The Future of Aging Policy in America.” This year’s Ithaca College Gerontology Distinguished Speaker, Greenlee will begin her talk at 7 p.m. in Park Hall Auditorium.

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ITHACA, NY — Robert B. Hudson, professor and chair of social welfare policy at the Boston University School of Social Work, will review the Community Living Assistance and Supports Services program (CLASS) — a part of the recent health care reform act — in a free public talk at Ithaca College on Thursday, Nov. 4. Beginning at 7 p.m. in Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall,...

ITHACA, NY — Advances in medicine and science have added years to life, but at what cost?

“Although long life can be a benefit, it may also bring a complex mix of multiple chronic conditions, disability and frailty,” said Dennis McCullough, M.D., longtime family physician, associate professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, and the...

ITHACA, NY — Terry Waldo — hailed by the “New York Times” as a “ragtime pianist nonpareil and eminent scholar of the form” — will visit Ithaca College in September for a three-day teaching residency as well as a public performance. Beginning at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 14, the concert will take place in the Hoerner Theatre in Dillingham Center. There...