Conference on the future of older people March 13

ANN ARBOR—Federal Reserve Board Governor Edward M. Gramlich and Lynn Alexander, director of the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging, will be keynote speakers at a free, public conference on “The Future of Older People in the United States: Government and Academic Perspectives” March 13 at the University of Michigan.

Gramlich, who will deliver the U-M School of Social Work‘s annual Leon and Josephine Winkelman Lecture in Gerontology, will discuss “Social Security Reform in the 21st Century” at 4 p.m. in the School of Education’s Schorling Auditorium. He is the author of a new book on Social Security reform, past chairman of the Social Security Advisory Council and former dean of the U-M’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Lori Hansen Riegle of the national Social Security Advisory Board and William C. Brooks, a former board member, will respond to Gramlich’s remarks.

His talk will be preceded by a luncheon presentation by Alexander, who will speak about “Successful Aging in Michigan” at 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Anderson Room, Michigan Union.

This will be followed by a 2 p.m. panel discussion in Schorling Auditorium that will feature School of Social Work faculty, students and practitioners. The panel will highlight the School’s newly launched program to strengthen geriatric social work, which is funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation.

For more information, call the School of Social Work, (734) 647-4281.

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