[wapadc] Fwd: For WAPA: CFP (Exploring Health and Vulnerability among Aging Populations)

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From: Cortney Hughes Rinker <chughe13@gmu.edu>
To: francesnorwood <francesnorwood@aol.com>
Cc: sheena.nahm <sheena.nahm@gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, Mar 22, 2017 5:55 pm
Subject: For WAPA: CFP (Exploring Health and Vulnerability among Aging Populations)

Dear Dr. Norwood,

Hope this message finds you well! Would it be possible to send this CFP for the AAA meeting to the WAPA membership? Thank you so much in advance for any help.

Sincerely,

Cortney Hughes Rinker

 What Does It Mean to be Vulnerable?: Exploring Health and Vulnerability among Aging Populations

116th AAA Annual Meeting

November 29-December 3, 2017

Washington, DC

 

Organizers: Sheena Nahm (The New School) and Cortney Hughes Rinker (George Mason University)

 

Current discussions and debates about health care in the United States, as well as abroad, call for deeper and broader ways of understanding how health happens, what is considered to be "good" health, whose health is at risk and why, and how better outcomes can be ensured for less money. A discourse of vulnerability emerges from these conversations. In 2017, under the new administration in the United States, there is a push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, and in this, offering insurance coverage and protection to those populations considered to be "vulnerable" has been a key part of the debate. Vulnerability has been evoked in terms of individual health and the barriers that may be in place to seeking high quality care, and also in terms of population health. According to Rogers (1997), everyone could be considered to be vulnerable at different points in their lives. Both individual factors and cultural and environmental ones can influence vulnerability. However, one specific group that has been consistently conceived of as being "vulnerable" in the United States and internationally is aging populations. 

 

This AAA panel aims to bring together research that engages with "vulnerability" (broadly defined) and lies at the intersections of anthropology and gerontology. We seek to include papers that explore questions of how anthropological (and social science more generally) perspectives on vulnerability can impact current health policy debates and discussions about aging populations in the United States or globally. Presentations could span across studies of different types of "vulnerabilities" and focus on topics such as, illness experiences, patient-centeredness and whole person care, structural vulnerability, the political economy of disease, policy, structural violence, at-risk populations, end-of-life care, immigrant health, cultural practices of health, and aging in place—although other research on aging that engages with "vulnerability" could certainly fit within the panel. What does it mean when aging populations are considered to be "vulnerable"? What impacts does this have on how they experience health and on their health outcomes? What factors make certain aging populations "vulnerable" and what strategies are used to overcome these? What are the bigger theoretical questions about "vulnerability" and what critiques can be offered of the term? We welcome papers focused on the United States or abroad and those that are theoretical, methodological, and/or applied. Together this panel will offer insight into how ethnography and anthropological approaches to studying care among aging populations matter both inside and outside of academia.

 

If interested, please email your abstracts to Sheena Nahm (nahms@newschool.edu) and Cortney Hughes Rinker (chughe13@gmu.edu) by Monday April 3, 2017.  

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