Donald P. Kent and Robert W. Kleemeier Award Lectures

Chair(s)

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  Judith Howe, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Professor
  Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
  Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  Yonkers, New York, United States

Award Lecturer(s)

• KW

  Kathleen Wilber, PhD, FGSA, FAGHE

  Professor
  Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Slides
• 

  David Almeida, PhD, FGSA

  Professor
  Center for Healthy Aging
  Pennsylvania State University
  University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

  Slides

The Donald P. Kent Award lecture will feature an address by the 2023 Kent Award recipient Kathleen Wilber, PhD, FGSA, FAGHE of the University of Southern California. The Robert W. Kleemeier Award lecture will feature an address by the 2023 Kleemeier Award recipient David M. Almeida, PhD, FGSA of Pennsylvania State University. The Kent Award is given annually to a member of The Gerontological Society of America who best exemplifies the highest standards of professional leadership in gerontology through teaching, service, and interpretation of gerontology to the larger society. The Kleemeier Award is given annually to a member of The Gerontological Society of America in recognition for outstanding research in the field of gerontology.

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST

  Loose Coupling? A Caregiver, a Guardian, and an Abuser Jump From a Plane With One Parachute: Who Survives?
  

  Award Lecturer: Kathleen H. Wilber, PhD, FGSA, FAGHE – University of Southern California
• 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST

  The National Study of Daily Experiences: Charting Quotidian Life of Across Adulthood
  

  Award Lecturer: David Almeida, PhD, FGSA – Pennsylvania State University