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The 2008 Spirituality and Age-ing Online Conference site is now open in anticipation of the start of the conference on Monday, November 3. This year's conference will begin in two different discussion formats; email discussion and a Live Discussion for all participants and presenters that will begin at 4 pm EST in the United States and Canada, 9 pm BST in Scotland, and 8 am EDT (Tuesday morning) in Australia. This conference is a collaborative effort of the Wayne E. Oates Institute (Louisville, KY), The Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability (Aberdeen, Scotland), and the Centre for Ageing & Pastoral Studies (Canberra, Australia). It will run from November 3 through November 14. If you have not yet registered to participate, it is not too late. Because this conference is held online, you may participate from where ever you have internet access and according to your schedule. As a participant you may earn continuing education credit without the time and cost restrictions of many conferences.
Conference presentations will be available 24/7 and as a participant you can access and print them out at your convenience. Presenters will include: - Dr. Melissa Alemán, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where her research has focused particularly on communication practices in later life romantic relationships. Presentation: "Managing Dialectical Tensions in Later Life Marriages and Families"
- Dr. Rosalie Hudson, Associate Professor and Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Nursing & Social Work, The University of Melbourne. Presentation: “Body and Spirit: One Journey, One Future”
- Dr. Elizabeth Mackinlay, Professor at the School of Theology at Charles Sturt University in Australia and Director of the Centre for Ageing and Pastoral Studies in Canberra, Australia. Presentation: "Loneliness in Later Life: Will the Experience of Baby Boomers be Different?"
- Dr. Harriet Mowat, Managing Director of Mowat Research. Dr. Mowat has a background in Sociology and Gerontology and was the Deputy Director of the Centre for Gerontology and Health Studies at Paisley University prior to her work at Mowat Research.
- Dr. John Swinton, Director of the Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability and Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, King’s College, University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland. Presentation: “Forgetting Whose We Are: Theological Reflections on Successful Aging, Personhood, and Dementia”
- Dr. Jane Marie Thibault, Clinical Gerontologist and Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the School of Medicine at the University of Louisville in Kentucky and author of A Deepening Love Affair: The Gift of God in Later Life. Presentation: "Dedicated Suffering: A Bio-Spiritual Response to Pain and Suffering"
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