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About the Robert N. Butler-Jack Rosenthal Age Boom Academy
Led by Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH; and Bruce Shapiro, the Robert N. Butler–Jack Rosenthal Age Boom Academy was conceived by pioneering geriatrician Robert N. Butler and renowned journalist, editor and New York Times executive Jack Rosenthal and is now in its third decade. Caitlin Hawke, Associate Director, Programming at the Columbia Aging Center, is the senior project lead for the Age Boom Academy.
Age Boom was launched at the International Longevity Center USA in 2000 under the leadership of Malvin Schechter, ILC's Associate Director at the time. Envisioned as an intensive training for journalists, editors, and producers in all media — print, on air and online, this signature program of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center continues today and is still run in partnership with the Columbia Journalism School, Age Boom is a forum in which to train journalists about the complex health, social, and economic issues facing our aging population. Nearly 200 journalists have participated in one or more of the annual Age Boom Academies since its inception.
Bringing together the resources of a top-tier research university, the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center routinely incorporates a range of disciplines from the medical sciences to urban planning to architecture in order to study and better understand the aging process and its societal implications.
The 2021 Academy, "Combatting Loneliness in Aging: Toward a 21st Century Blueprint for Societal Connectedness," was held online in May and June 2021.
The 2022 Academy "Caregiving and Our Longer Lives – The $500 Billion Question" is now open. Selection is competitive and applications are due by June 30, 2022. The 2022 Academy will be held virtually over four two-hour sessions on October 13, 14, 20 & 21.
Led by Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH; and Bruce Shapiro, the Robert N. Butler–Jack Rosenthal Age Boom Academy was conceived by pioneering geriatrician Robert N. Butler and renowned journalist, editor and New York Times executive Jack Rosenthal and is now in its third decade. Caitlin Hawke, Associate Director, Programming at the Columbia Aging Center, is the senior project lead for the Age Boom Academy.
Age Boom was launched at the International Longevity Center USA in 2000 under the leadership of Malvin Schechter, ILC's Associate Director at the time. Envisioned as an intensive training for journalists, editors, and producers in all media — print, on air and online, this signature program of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center continues today and is still run in partnership with the Columbia Journalism School, Age Boom is a forum in which to train journalists about the complex health, social, and economic issues facing our aging population. Nearly 200 journalists have participated in one or more of the annual Age Boom Academies since its inception.
Bringing together the resources of a top-tier research university, the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center routinely incorporates a range of disciplines from the medical sciences to urban planning to architecture in order to study and better understand the aging process and its societal implications.
The 2021 Academy, "Combatting Loneliness in Aging: Toward a 21st Century Blueprint for Societal Connectedness," was held online in May and June 2021.
The 2022 Academy "Caregiving and Our Longer Lives – The $500 Billion Question" is now open. Selection is competitive and applications are due by June 30, 2022. The 2022 Academy will be held virtually over four two-hour sessions on October 13, 14, 20 & 21.