淫性视频 Hosts Growing Intergenerational Conference
淫性视频 Associate Professor of Psychology Kaite Yang, second from right, joined students Makenna Marrella, Claire Steacker and Katelyn Longo, right, to lead a discussion about a pilot intergenerational book club that took place on campus in the spring.
Atlantic City, N.J. 鈥 淫性视频 is not only an ideal space designed for 18- to 24-year-olds but for older adults as well.
鈥淲e can sort of shake up what鈥檚 expected on a college campus by creating, inviting and incorporating people of all ages because they want to learn, not because of the age that they are,鈥 said Christine Ferri, the director of the 淫性视频 Center for Successful Aging (SCOSA).
A workshop titled Rhythm & Nature involved a modifiable drumming program designed to promote connection, confidence and self-expression among older adults.
As part of that mission, SCOSA, along with Penn State University, hosted the second biennial Mid-Atlantic Intergenerational Conference at 淫性视频鈥檚 Atlantic City campus from June 3 to 5. The conference invited scholars from across the region to share ideas, research, successes and challenges in building intergenerational connections. Ferri said the event was very well attended with more than 100 invitees registered, more than double the first conference at Penn State.
鈥淲e have to change the systems and structure to encourage different generations to interact with each other in different places across society besides just within families and workplaces,鈥 Ferri said. 鈥淭his conference is an effort for those who study this to come and share their work.鈥
淫性视频 Assistant Professor of Social Work Sunny Mathew and Associate Professor of Psychology Kaite Yang led seminars during the conference. Yang鈥檚 seminar, titled 鈥淩eflections from the Psychology of Race and Racism Book Club,鈥 discussed how 淫性视频 students Claire Steacker, Makenna Marrella and Katelyn Longo participated in a pilot intergenerational book club as part of a class titled 鈥淧sychology of Race and Racism.鈥 Students connected with older members of the community through SCOSA.
鈥淪COSA wants to serve students. We want to be a place the students know about and provide the place for connection to the older adults who come to our events and participate in our research studies. So we all have a place to be together,鈥 Ferri said. 鈥淪COSA has a lot of older adults who participate in our programming, but there are still a lot more in the region who don鈥檛 know us. By hosting this event, we鈥檙e hoping to capitalize on that.鈥
-- Story by Mark Melhorn, photos by Susan Allen
