Publications
Free Mental Health Web Seminar for ASA Members For a limited time, ASA and the Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW) at Boston University are offering a free four-hour online course, Mental Health and Aging Issues. This course gives practitioners basic and critical information about the common mental health conditions in older adults, and includes key mental health assessment and intervention strategies that can be used with older adults and their families. To take advantage of this offer, please contact Anna Papantonakis, IGSW’s online training coordinator, or call IGSW at 617-358-2626. This offer is valid for ASA members only and expires June 30, 2008.
Support American Society on Aging's much-needed education and training for professionals who work with older adults. For more information, click here.
ASA introduces Career AdvantAge, your online source for careers in aging. Whether you're a job-seeker looking for a job in the field of aging, or an employer looking to fill a position, this resource will simplify the task and help you make the right connections. 
Learn more about older adult civic engagement -- Read current articles from news publications around the world in the In the News section. View a listing of civic engagement activities around the country in the What’s Happening section. LEARN MORE!
Aging Today - January-February 2008
Good Places to Grow Old: New Realities for an Older America. Most Americans live in houses, neighbourhoods and communities ill-suited for aging bodies and minds. They increasingly are realizing that health and well-being in later life depend largely on the environment in which they live. Living in a community where it is relatively easy to interact with friends and neighbours, get to the market or doctor, and participate in social and communal activities all can contribute to better physical and mental well-being. Read more.
Generations - Winter 2007-08Disasters and Older Adults. Any profession devoted to human service has much to learn from a horrific event like Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, but for the field of aging this disaster is of particular concern because a large proportion of the victims—and, it turns out, many of the heroes—were older people. Now, with the dust of demolition still unsettled almost three years after that storm struck the Gulf Coast, this issue of Generations uses Katrina for a broad look at disasters and aging.
