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Women and Aging Conference On September 22, 2000, 80 women gathered at GWU's Mount Vernon campus for the Women and Aging Conference. The conference, the first of its kind, included an eclectic list of speakers. Judy Norsigian, Program Director of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, delivered the keynote address. Norsigian spoke eloquently on the lack of information on women's health, and stressed the need for more research. Other topics of interest were social security, elder abuse, and health care training for personnel to aid the elderly. The members of the conference created a statement of purpose that outlined their goals and
accomplishments. The participants agreed that an intergenerational dialogue would be crucial
in creating a space in which these and other issues might be discussed at length, and they
agreed that one step would be to have a similar conference every two years on key women's
issues. For all involved, the Women and Aging Conference was a great success!
Written by: Raina Lenney
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