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This GSA webinar (1:00:24 minutes) presented by community and public health leaders and advocates in a facilitated problem-identification and problem-solving discourse about aging Native American, rural, and homeless populations with regard to challenges and effectiveness of responses to COVID-19. Presentations include: 1) Resilience: The Key to the Survival of the Nebraska Urban Indian Health Community (Dr.

Transitions commonly associated with advancing age - work disruptions, physical decline, dementia - can be better managed when a person has planned for the social support, financial means, and health resources needed to compensate for aging-related physical and cognitive changes. In this GSA webinar (59:58 minutes), Dr. Peter A. Lichtenberg (Wayne State University) and Dr. Mary D. Naylor (University of Pennsylvania) exchange ideas about the concept of longevity fitness and insights into positive aging across the life course. (Presentation begins at 1:23 minutes.)

This GSA webinar (1:00:45 minutes) presented by Dr. Patricia M. D'Antonio (Reframing Aging Initiative), Dr. Helen Fernandez (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), and Dr. Moira O'Neill (FrameWorks Institute) highlights the importance that words matter in how society thinks and talks about aging. The webinar covers four ideas to keep in mind when talking about older people and health equity in health care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Presentation begins at 7:07 minutes.)

This GSA webinar (49:16 minutes) presented by Dr. R. Gordon Douglas (Weill Cornell Medical College), Dr. David H. Canaday (Case Western Reserve University), Dr. Sherry A. Greenberg (Seton Hall University College of Nursing), and Dr.

This GSA webinar (1:00:34 minutes) presented by Dr. Jayant Pinto, Dr. Martha K. McClintock, Dr. L. Philip Schumm, and Dr. Louise Hawkley (all from the University of Chicago) describes how data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) - a longitudinal population-based study of health and social factors that aims to understand the well-being of older, community dwelling Americans - have been used to examine the role of specific and global sensory deficits in predicting aging health outcomes such as cognitive decline and mortality.

This panel presentation (1:29:59 minutes) by Dr. Rozalyn Anderson (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health), Dr. Brian K. Kennedy (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine), Dr. R. Tamara Konetzka (University of Chicago), Dr. David Melzer (University of Conneticut Center on Aging), and Dr. Janko Nikolich-Zugich (Arizona Center on Aging) explores the basis for the profound skew in vulnerability to COVID-19 where older individuals are at much greater risk of succumbing to disease with much higher mortality rates than for the population at large.

This webinar presented by a distinguishedpanel (Drs. Stephen Shuman, Leonardo Marchini, Terry Fulmer, and Bei Wu) from GSA's Oral Health Workgroup explores the challenges of providing oral health care to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This webinar presented by a distinguished panel (Drs. Stephen Shuman, Jeffrey Dodge, Michael Helgeson, and Samuel Zwetchkenbaum) from GSA's Oral Health Workgroup explores the challenges of providing oral health care to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In partnership with Service Providers for Seniors group in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Dakota Geriatrics (GWEP) has organised a series of webinars on the Age Friendly Heatlhcare Systems and the framework of Geriatric 4Ms.

This 1-hour webinar given by Drs. Jonathan Palmer, Robbin Frazier, and Suzanne Madison discusses how during the pandemic and civil unrest, older adults may be particularly vulnerable to re-traumatization as they re-experience a previous traumatic event, either consciously or unconsciously, as the result of a current racially bias event. This webinar will provide an overview of the historical trauma and resilience of the African American community in Minnesota as well as provide helpful strategies in trauma-informed care with older adults.