UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing’s Tressa Nese and Helen Diskevich Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (CGNE) will hold its ninth annual Alumni & Friends Spring Brunch event on Sunday, April 3, at The Penn Stater Conference Center.
The event provides the opportunity for attendees to meet the CGNE team, gerontological faculty, affiliated students, and collaborative partners. Attendees will also learn more about the center’s recent accomplishments regarding education, research, and translation of best practice and services, hear remarks from Dean Laurie Badzek, and acknowledgements of the center’s donors, sponsors and collaborating partners.
Keynote speaker, Dr. Louise Aronson will be presenting “Aging, Ageism, and the Future of Elderhood." focusing on how aging and old age have changed dramatically in recent decades. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated not only the ageism built into key social structures and health systems but also the resilience of older people and the importance of social connections.
Aronson is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, professor of medicine at UCSF and the author of the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist "Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life." A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award.
Her current work is focused on expanding geriatric care and public perceptions of old age to more accurately attend to the decades and diversity of elderhood, developing innovative programs and practices to empower older adults to retain agency and maximize wellness as they age. At UCSF, she served as director of the Pathways to Discovery program, the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center, the Optimizing Aging Project, and as Chief of Geriatrics Education. Her writing credits include the New York Times, Atlantic, Washington Post, Discover, Vox, JAMA, Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine, and she has been featured on TODAY, CBS This Morning, NPR’s Fresh Air, Morning Edition, Politico, Kaiser Health News, Tech Nation and the New Yorker. Currently, she divides her time among patient care, community-based aging innovations, teaching, health advocacy in the media, and writing.
The event is open to the public. Registration is required by March 25. Register here.
Registered nurses can earn 1.0 continuing nursing education unit.