ICAA 2016: Contextualizing Health and Aging on Both Sides of the U.S./Mexico Border

1. 2016
ICAA
Contextualizing Health and Aging on Both Sides of the U.S./Mexico
Border
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Simulcast at The University of Texas at Austin
The United States and Mexico are growing old, although because of its relatively young population Mexico
will remain younger than the Unites States for some time. In the U.S., older Latinos will account for a large
share of the total older population in the southwestern United States and the country at large as aging Baby
Boomers begin to turn 65. The rapidly aging populations of Mexico and the United States will remain
heterogeneous in terms of many social and demographic factors, including their urban and rural
distributions. This heterogeneity calls for comparative analyses of the community as an important context in
understanding how characteristics of physical, social, and economic environments give rise to disparities in
Latino health in older adults. For this reason, the 2016 ICAA meeting will focus on the influences of social
and economic contexts on healthful aging in Latino communities across the U.S./Mexico border in cities and
towns such as Harlingen, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico, San Diego, California, and Chicago, Illinois.
Key thematic areas encompass the ways in which Latino aging is affected by different contexts and places,
including rural, periurban (between the suburbs and the countryside), and urban areas in these regions.
Papers will employ different methodologies to address cross-cutting issues related to immigration processes,
family and household structure, and macroeconomic changes on the quality of community life. At the
microscopic level, several papers will pay close attention to the new realities of aging in Latino families in
local places. In Texas, Latinos are growing rapidly older and as a result the City of Austin by example
became a WHO designated age-friendly community in 2013. Another panel spotlights the role of local
communities in developing affordable senior housing and supportive services, such as the Program of All-
Inclusive Care for the Elderly in Texas localities and other places in the Southwest. The ultimate objective is
to offer new insights on the consequences of the impending growth and impact of the older segment of aging
communities on local economies.
2016 ICAA September 14-16
San Antonio, Texas with U.T Austin
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Events Page: http://copp.utsa.edu/ICAA2016
Schedule of Activities
Wednesday, September
14
6-8:30 pm
Kickoff Dinner Event DoubleTree Hotel (Salon de Gala)
6:00-7:00 pm Registration/Meet & Greet
7:00-7:15 pm Welcome
Rogelio Sáenz, UTSA
Jacqueline Angel, UT Austin
Keynote Speaker
Peter Ward
7:30 pm
The University of Texas- Austin Evening Keynote: How Place and
Space Matter: Intersections
between Housing, Health and the
Life Course Among Aging Latinos
Introductions by Dr. Jacqueline
Angel

2. Thursday, September 15
Speaker/Panel Affiliation/Session Title
7:30-8:30 am Registration continued
Breakfast
UTSA Downtown Campus, Southwest
Room (DB 1.124)
8:30-8:40 am Welcome
Rogelio Sáenz
René Zenteno
8:40-9:20 am
The University of Texas at San Antonio Opening Keynote- The New Era of
Mexico-U.S. migration: The post 2006
Experience and the Collapse of
Undocumented Migration
UTSA President Ricardo
Romo
9:20 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Remarks
Panel #1
9:30-10:30 am
Mexico’s Health Care Context
Presider
Fernando Torres-Gil
University of California, Los Angeles
Mariana Lopez-Ortega
Luis Gutierrez
Institutos Nacionales de Salud de México Contextualizing health and aging in
Mexico: an opinion nationwide survey on
aging
Hiram Beltran-Sanchez
Anne R. Pebley
Noreen Goldman
UCLA
UCLA
Princeton
Links between occupational
history and functional limitations
among older adults in Mexico
Veronica Montes De Oca
Patricia Rea-Ángeles
Ron Angel
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
U.T. Austin
El envejecimiento en Mexico y el papel
de las OSC
Break
10:30-10:45 am
Panel #2
10:45-11:45 am
Contextualizing Human Security in the
Americas: Mexico, Brazil, and the U.S.
Presider
Fernando Riosmena
University of Colorado at Boulder
Leticia Marteleto
Simone Wajnman
Cássio Turra
The University of Texas-Austin Intergenerational Families in a
Rapidly Aging Context: Forty years
of Elderly Empowerment in Brazil
Flavia Andrade
Mariana Lopez-Ortega
University of Illinois- Urbana Assessment of the Impact of
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health among
Retirement Age Adults in Brazil and Mexico
Stipica Mudrazija Urban Institute Present and Future Retirement Security
for Aging Latinos
Lunch
12:00-1:30 pm
Panel #3
1:30-3:00 pm
Aging in the Context of Stress, Fear, and
Religious Involvement
Presider
Luis Gutierrez
Institutos Nacionales de Salud de México

3. William Vega
William Sribney
University of Southern California Regional Effects on ADL's and IADL's
of Longitudinal Exposure to Life Course
Stress Factors: A Comparison of U.S.
Latino and White non-Latino older
adults
Nestor Rodriguez
Jacqueline Hagan
David Leal
The University of Texas at Austin
UTMB
Aging Environments of Fear
Terrence Hill
Sunshine Rote
Christopher G. Ellison
University of Arizona at Tucson
University of Louisville
University of Texas at San Antonio
Religious Involvement and Biological
Functioning in Mexico
Juried Poster Session
Organizer
Terrence Hill
3:00-4:30 pm
University of Arizona, Tucson Judges: Luis Gutiérrez Robeldo, Ph.D.
Mariana Lopez Ortega, Ph.D.
Flavia Andrade, Ph.D.
Panel #4
4:00-5:00 pm
Emerging Scholars Oral Presentations Emerging Scholars Oral Presentations
Julio Fernandez-Villa
Catherine Perez &
Jennifer Ailshire
Brian Downer
Jacqueline Contrera
Association of Healthy Habits Beliefs and Mortality
in Older Adults: A Secondary Longitudinal Analysis
of the Mexican Health and Aging Study
The Health Status of Aging Puerto Ricans
Compared to U.S. Populations
Influence of Diabetes and Depression Severity on
the Likelihood for Disability and Mortality in Older
Puerto Ricans
Healthcare Expenditures and Utilization among
Mexican Older Adults: Analysis of the Mexican
Health and Aging Study (MHAS)
Presider
Lloyd Potter
University of Texas at San Antonio
Awards Ceremony and
Reception
5:00-6:00 pm
Southwest Room
Speed Mentoring and
Dinner
6:30-9:30 pm
Pico De Gallo Restaurant (across from
the UTSA Downtown Campus Buena
Vista St. Bldg.)
(Invitation Only )
Presiders
Bill Vega
Brian Downer
USC
UTMB
Speed Mentoring and Dinner
Friday, September 16
Panel #5
8-9:30 am
Social Support and Mexican-Origin Aging
Presider
Dr. Harriett Romo
University of Texas at San Antonio
Bank of America Child and Adolescent Policy
Research Institute and Director of the UTSA
Mexico Center

4. Carolyn Mendez-Luck Oregon State University Contextualizing Elder Care among
Mexican-Origin Caregivers in 21st
Century
Mexico and the United States
Kate Cagney University of Chicago Neighborhood Social Context and the
Health of Older Latinos in the US
Sunshine Rote
Jacqui Angel
Kyriakos Markides
University of Louisville
U.T. Austin
UTMB
Neighborhood Factors and Caregiver
Stress Processes among the
Mexican-origin Population
Silvia Mejia Arango
Rogelio Saenz
Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico Social Factors as Mediators of Cognition
during the Life Course among the Elderly:
The Case of Mexicans in Mexico and the
United States
Panel #6
10:00-11:00 am
New Binational Perspectives on Geriatric
Health Services: Mexico and the USA
Presider
Iveris Martinez
Florida International University
Fanny Sleman
Veronica Montes de Oca
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Aging rule-based policies outcomes in
the Mexican states
Jennifer Salinas U. of Texas School of Public Health
Brownsville
Healthcare access and utilization on the
U.S.-Mexico border region
11:00 am-12:00 pm –
Closing Plenary
Latino Aging in the Homefront: Issues and
Realities in San Antonio
Mercedes Bristol, Grandparents Raising
Grandparents Coalition
Adelita G. Cantu, University of Texas Health
Science Center of San Antonio, School of
Nursing
Juan H. Flores, La Fe Policy Research and
Education Center
12:00-1:30 pm
Consensus Building
Session and Luncheon
Co-Presiders
Rogelio Saenz
Kyriakos Markides
UTSA
UTMB
Consensus Building Session and
Luncheon
Presider
Jacqui Angel
U.T. Austin CAA Advisory Group Publications
Committee