Gero-Ed Track Kick-Off

November 7, 2009 10:30 am–12:00 pm

Aging and Social Justice: Honoring the Past and Preparing for the Future

Fernando Torres-Gil

The 3rd annual Gero-Ed Track Kick-Off, cosponsored by the Institute for Geriatric Social Work at Boston University and the John A. Hartford Foundation, marked the beginning of aging and gerontology events at APM.

Fernando M. Torres-Gil, director of the University of California, Los Angeles’ (UCLA’s) Center for Policy Research on Aging, led the Gero-Ed Track Kick-Off Event with an address entitled The New Gray Panthers: Recipe for a New Social Movement (MS Word). The Kick-Off also featured a trailer of the award-winning documentary The Way We Get By. This moving film, which has screened at numerous national and international film festivals and is now playing in select theatres across the country, was shown at the Gero-Ed Film Festival.