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Dominican University's Siena Center Presents Lecture on life-long aging



Dominican University's Siena Center will present a lecture titled "Life-Long Aging and the Baby Boom Phenomenon" by Martha Jacob, assistant professor of sociology and coordinator of the gerontology program at Dominican University. The lecture will be held Wednesday, January 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the Priory Campus Auditorium, 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Jacob will explain the "life course" perspective of a gerontologist which views growing older as a nonlinear trajectory that takes us from birth to death. In the very near future, a fifth of the population will be age 65 and older. Jacob will examine what issues, concerns and needs will need to be addressed as the Baby Boomer population ages.

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Jacob presented papers on "An Interdisciplinary Collaborative Approach to Ensure Quality Social Workers in Aging as Well as Informed Workers in Other Careers about Aging Issues" and "Evaluating the Impact of a Financial Incentive Training Program for Students in Gerontological Social Work," both at the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education 36th annual meeting in Reno, NV in March 2010. Previously, Jacob served as information specialist at the Suburban Area Agency on Aging in Oak Park,  statistical analyst and programmer at the Buehler Center on Aging at Northwestern University, and project coordinator for the Health Research and Policy Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Admission to the lecture is $10. For more information on Dominican University's Siena Center, please call (708) 714-9105 or visit www.siena.dom.edu

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Dominican University established the Siena Center to engage the critical issues of church and society in the light of faith and scholarship. The center was named for St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th century laywoman who worked for the reform of the church and justice in the world. Her passionate devotion to the central issues of church and society inspires the work of the center in its schedule of lectures, symposia, workshops, retreats, research and seminars.

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