The Conference Series on Aging in the Americas (CAA) is aimed at utilizing research to augment knowledge about dimensions of healthful aging for people of Hispanic and Latin American descent and fostering emerging scholars in the field as this topic rapidly develops as a major policy and national budget issue. Past conferences examined the social and economic causes and consequences of health problems among older Mexican-origin individuals in the United States and in Mexico. The SCAIA Summary Report provides an overview of what was accomplished in the most recent conference held at The University of Texas at Austin.The edited collection of findings from this conference, The Health of Aging Hispanics, has recently been published.

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