In March 2024, The Gerontologist published its latest Special Issue: “Climate Change and Aging.” Climate change is perhaps one of the greatest public health challenges facing humans now and in the future, with particular implications for older adults. This webinar will feature the authors of several of the Special Issue’s timely articles that provide a roadmap of how we can confront the climate change crisis that has and will continue to influence how we age.

• Deborah Carr, PhD | Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science, Boston University
• Lindsay J. Peterson, PhD | Research Assistant Professor, School of Aging Studies, The University of South Florida
• JoNell Strough, PhD | Professor of Psychology, West Virginia University
• Senjooti Roy, PhD | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bar Ilan University, Israel
• Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD, FGSA | Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation, Director of the national BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief, The Gerontologist