Press Briefings and Releases
Press Briefings and Related Activities:
Aging Means Business: Design for a New Age
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Noon to 1 p.m.
Hampton A & B, Sheraton Boston Hotel
GSA is convening a day-long forum at the meeting that brings together business, design, and aging experts to share breakthrough ideas, innovations, and market strategies for success in the older adult consumer marketplace. This session will highlight some of the key issues on the conference’s agenda. The speakers include Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD, founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab; Mary Furlong, EdD, president and CEO of Mary Furlong & Associates; and Matthias Hollwich, SBA, principal of the architecture and concept design firm Hollwich Kushner and co-founder of the architectural social networking site Architizer.
Left Behind — Older Workers in the Down Economy
Sunday, November 20, 2011
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Hampton A & B, Sheraton Boston Hotel
This session will feature Andrew Sum of Northeastern University, a widely cited expert on employment trends; Anthony Sarmiento, executive director of Senior Service America, Inc. (SSAI), which runs federally funded employment and training programs around the nation for low-income seniors ages 55-plus; and SSAI’s senior researcher, Robert Harootyan, long one of the sharpest socioeconomic analysts on aging in Washington.
Press Roundtable with Fernando Torres-Gil, PhD
Sunday, November 20, 2011
2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Hampton A & B, Sheraton Boston Hotel
Torres-Gil is the associate dean of UCLA’s School of Social Welfare and Public Policy and a former U.S. assistant secretary for aging. Reporters will get solid analysis of the new Super Committee, which is scheduled to deliver its budget recommendations (or not, if the partisans deadlock) on November 23. More broadly, he will discuss how issues like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Older Americans Act programs are apt to play out in the 2012 presidential election. Among his many hats at UCLA, he also heads the project on Latinos and Economic Security, which has focused on issues for Hispanic boomers.
Press Reception
Sunday, November 20, 2011
5 to 7 p.m.
Hampton A & B, Sheraton Boston Hotel
Join other reporters attending the conference for a wine and cheese networking reception and discuss emerging issues on the age beat. The group will likely head out for a Dutch-treat dinner afterward.
The Archon Genomics X PRIZE Presented by Express Scripts: Advancing Longevity Research
Monday, November 21, 2011
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Hampton A & B, Sheraton Boston Hotel
Download an audio recording of the briefing (mp3 format, 31 MB)
Watch an industry validation video of the Archon Genomics X PRIZE, featuring GSA Executive Director James Appleby, RPh, MPH
Call-In:
Participant Dial-in Numbers:
U.S. Toll Free: 888-299-4099
Canadian Toll Free: 866-682-1172
International Toll: 302-709-8337
Verbal Passcode (to be given to the operator): VK11471
The Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by Express Scripts recently updated their $10 million competition challenging companies to sequence 100 whole human genomes in 30 days or less, with 98 percent accuracy and costing at most $1,000 per genome. The 100 whole human genomes will be donated from 100 centenarians from around the world, known as the Medco 100 Over 100. The global coalition formed to recruit the Express Scripts 100 Over 100 will be formally announced at this briefing. Offsite reporters will be able to listen in by phone and ask questions. The speakers include Grant Campany, senior director of the Archon Genomics X PRIZE; Larry Kedes, MD, senior scientific advisor of the Archon Genomics X PRIZE; Nir Barzilai, MD, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and Thomas Perls, MD, MPH, director of Boston Medical Center's New England Centenarian Study.
General Press Releases
Study Finds Sex a Significant Predictor of Happiness Among Married Seniors (November 17, 2011)
Human Genome Sequencing, Older Workers Top Press Briefing Agenda at GSA’s Boston Meeting (November 14, 2011)
Register Now! Boston Meeting Will Showcase Latest Aging Discoveries (November 3, 2011)
Journalism Fellows Promise In-Depth Portrayal of Aging in a Diverse America (September 29, 2011)
Join GSA in Boston for the Nation’s Premier Aging Conference! (September 20, 2011)
MetLife Foundation’s Grant Bolsters Media Coverage for Aging Issues (May 24, 2011)
