The Cutting Edge of Gerontological Scholarship: The Gerontologist's Editor's Choice Symposium

Chair(s)

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  Joseph Gaugler, PhD, FGSA (he/him/his)

  Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging and Distinguished McKnight University Professor
  School of Public Health
  University of Minnesota
  Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

  Slides

Co-Chair(s)

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  Alexandrea Allemann, MA (she/her/hers)

  Publishing Manager
  Publishing & Professional Resources
  Gerontological Society of America
  Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Individual Symposium Abstract First Author(s)

• AG

  Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  Department of Emergency Medicine
  University of Wisconsin Madison
  Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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  Kelly O'Malley, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Psychologist
  Geriatrics and Extended Care
  VA Boston Healthcare System
  Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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  Ittay Mannheim, PhD (he/him/his)

  Post-doc researcher
  Department of Communication Studies
  Ben Gurion University of the Negev
  Beer-Sheva, HaDarom, Israel

  Slides
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  Jessica Kelley, PhD, FGSA (she/her/hers)

  Professor
  Sociology
  Case Western Reserve University
  Cleveland, Ohio, United States

The mission of The Gerontologist is to publish and disseminate "applied, multidisciplinary research and analysis on social issues related to human aging. It informs the broad community of disciplines and professions involved in understanding the aging process and providing care to older people." In addition, the journal encourages "cutting-edge, conceptually-oriented work that addresses inequities in health, mental health, social status, and justice in late life as well as intersections among these areas with applicability to real-world-settings." This symposium will highlight some of the recent and best examples of gerontological scholarship in The Gerontologist by highlighting select Editor's Choice articles. Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, Ph.D., RN, and colleagues consider the perspectives of family caregivers and hospice clinicians related to episodes of paradoxical lucidity among people living with dementia and how observational approaches may be leveraged to understand this fascinating phenomenon further. Kelly O'Malley, Ph.D., and her co-authors offer a timely and important framework to advance and implement trauma-informed care in long-term care contexts. Ittay Mannheim, Ph.D., and colleagues conducted a fascinating scoping review using critical discourse analysis to determine how and the extent to which ageism is reflected in the design process of digital technologies. Together, these Editor's Choice selections from The Gerontologist "push the envelope" of the science and scholarship of gerontology.

Presentations:

• 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PST

  “It's You”: Caregiver and Clinician Perspectives on Lucidity in People Living With Dementia
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Andrea L. Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin Madison
• 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PST

  Trauma-Informed Care in Long-Term Care Settings
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Kelly O'Malley, PhD (she/her/hers) – VA Boston Healthcare System
• 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PST

  New Perspectives on Explicit and Implicit Ageist Discourses in Designing Digital Technologies for Older Persons
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Ittay Mannheim, PhD (he/him/his) – Ben Gurion University of the Negev
• 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PST

  Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Quantitative Studies of Age and Life Course
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Jessica A. Kelley, PhD, FGSA (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University