Texas Aging & Longevity Center

03/30/2021

HELP SUPPORT STUDENT WORK IN AGING! We are fundraising for grad student work that focuses on aging: research activities, community outreach, scientific meetings and more!

Starting today, March 30th-31 for 40 hours, we are raising $$ through UT Austin's 40 For Forty annual giving campaign.

THANK YOU!! Please support and forward if you can. Donations are tax-deductible and ANY amount helps.🤗 Link here: https://40for40.utexas.edu/giving-day/33333/department/34368

06/04/2020

Unlike gay men, women who are married to women are “constantly monitoring each other’s emotions and needs and responding to them — but they are doing it for each other, so it’s reciprocated.”
Debra Umberson, Texas Aging & Longevity Center co-director, featured in The New York Times.

Same-sex couples, on average, resolve conflict more constructively than different-sex couples, and with less animosity, studies have shown.

05/20/2020

“There’s no doubt that the death rate in nursing homes is astronomical, but when you look at the statistics, only 5% of older adults are in nursing homes.” Karen Fingerman, Texas Aging & Longevity Center co-director, is featured in .

By grouping all people 65 and older into one category, we may inadvertently make a world where later years are valued less

05/08/2020

Gloria González-López, UT Austin Sociology professor, wrote a beautiful piece about her mother and not being able to visit her at the nursing home during the .

In honor of Mother's Day, writer-professor Gloria González-López recalls her mother's words in Spanish throughout the years in this moving personal essay.

04/27/2020

Two freshmen in the Cockrell School of Engineering - UT Austin started an incredible organization to bring together younger and older adults during this pandemic. Read about it in the Houston Chronicle!

A trio of Texas students have created a website that matches older people with younger ones - Bigs and Minis - in an attempt to fight the isolation many seniors are feeling in the pandemic lockdown.

04/07/2020

"Grouping all older adults together sets us up to misunderstand the disease process and may lead to misappropriation of resources." New Op Ed by Texas Aging & Longevity Center co-director Karen Fingerman in
USA TODAY.

Some older adults may have been planning a trip to Nepal. Others may be medical workers making vital contributions. And others may be sick and frail.

11/16/2019

Dr. Karen Fingerman presenting Multiple Methods of Assessing Daily TV Viewing in Late Life at the Gerentological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting.
The Gerontological Society of America The University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin

10/28/2019

Join us this Wed., Oct. 30th!

Dr. Robin Hilsabeck will give a talk on "Unraveling the Role of Stress and Immune Function in Dementia Risk" to UT faculty, students, and community members 10/30/2019 at noon. Reception to follow!

Dr. Robin Hilsabeck will present on

10/12/2019

“Live to 97 (years old) and you can do anything." -- Dr. Goodenough on winning the Nobel Prize.

We agree!

Congratulations to UT's own Dr. Goodenough for winning a Nobel prize at 97 years old.

UT professor John B. Goodenough won the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries.

10/06/2019

If you missed the Aging and Health Informatics Abstract Deadline, there's good news! The poster deadline has been extended to Oct. 20th. Click the link and submit today! Scholarships available!

Deadlines: Submission for podium presentations is now closed. The deadline for student poster submissions has been extended to October 20, 2019. The deadline for the student scholarship application is November 1, 2019.

10/05/2019

Texas Aging and Longevity Center is leading a cluster hire for the University of Texas at Austin. Click for more information!

The Texas Aging and Longevity Center at UT Austin is pleased to announce a cluster hiring initiative in Diversity in Cognitive Functioning in Late Life. Four new faculty hires will bridge disciplines across campus and stimulate the innovative team-based research needed to tackle an understanding of....

10/01/2019

The GRACE Program is hosting a Distinguished Speaker Luncheon series. There are a few seats available for the upcoming luncheon entitled -- "Compassion Fatigue Essentials: Developing your Social Work Toolkit" presented by Donna Shanor, LCSW, LCDC. Lunch, parking, and CEUs are free! You MUST RSVP. Please see the flyer for more information.