Time's Potential: The Past, Present and Future of Aging

In honor of National Aging Month

Seven distinguished Penn faculty in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and nursing discuss how aging informs many more aspects of our lives than we may realize. SAS professors Jeffrey Kallberg, Christine Poggi, and Susan Stewart explore the effects of aging on music, art, and literature. Penn Medicine's John Trojanowski, cochair of the Center for Neurodegen-erative Diseases, updates us on the science of the brain and the encoding of creative potential as one ages. Penn Nursing's Neville Strumpf, noted gerontologist and former acting dean of nursing argues for the importance of humanistic values in caring for the elderly. And Rosemary Stevens, former dean of SAS, offers a historical and social critique of hospital care in the United States.

AGENDA (Synopsis)

Introductions
Eugene Narmour
E.J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Music
Acting Director, Penn Humanities Forum

Aging, Medicine, and Hospitals
Rosemary Stevens
Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Professor Emeritus
History & Sociology of Science

Literary Creativity in Old Age
Susan Stewart, Donald T. Regan Professor of English

New Treatments in Alzheimer's Disease
John Trojanowski
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Codirector Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
School of Medicine

Late Style in Painting
Christine Poggi
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair
History of Art

Late Style in Composition
Jeffrey Kallberg
Professor of Music

Time and the Experience of Aging
Neville Strumpf
Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology
School of Nursing