ハワイ大学に学ぶ「ジェロントロジー」

このセミナーは、ジェロントロジー教育の第一人者、南カリフォルニア大学デビッド・ピーターソン博士と若きジェロントロジストとして活躍するＵＨ.キャサリン・ブラウン博士の指導のもとに開講されました。「ジェロントロジーとは何か？」から「生活、産業とジェロントロジーとの関わりとは？」に至る幅広い領域を学び、世界で最も早く高齢化している我が国の目指すべき指標を学び取りました。また、このセミナーではイースト・ウエストセンターのサマーセミナー（注1）とのジョイントセミナー、ハワイ州政府と共同開催するフォーラム（注2）等、いろいろな角度からジェロントロジーに迫りました。

（注1）イースト・ウエストセンターとは、ハワイ大学の中にあるフェデラルの研究機関です。環太平洋の国々の方が集い、それぞれの国の、例えば、生活、文化から政治、経済にいたるまで、あらゆる事を研究する目的で運営されています。この6月の一ヶ月間、各国から研究者が集まり、エージングをテーマにサマーセミナーが開催されました。

（注2）日本人シニアのライフスタイル、健康、学習、遊び、そして働くことについてジェロントロジーの観点から問い直してみます。そして、日本人シニアの真のニーズとは何かを考え、そして捉え、それらに対して社会システム、社会サービス、企業が提供する商品・サービスが応えているかを、州知事、DBEBT（日本でいう経企庁）の長官、日本とハワイの企業の方々と一緒になって考えました。題して、「ジェロントロジーによるシニアマーケットの検証」です。
なお、このフォーラム終了後は知事公邸へ移動し、セミナー修了式及びレセプションを開催されました。

2000年6月25日（日）～7月2日（日）　6泊8日

East meets West: Seminar on Gerontology
June 25-June 29, 2000 (4-day Seminar)

June 25 (Sunday)

	2:00 pm		check-in East West Center Hale Manoa
	2:00 - 3:00 pm		Assignment of rooms
	3:00 - 5:00 pm		Orientation - UH Campus - Manoa Market Place
	5:00 - 7:00 pm		Welcome Dinner - Biomedical Building B Court yard

June 26 (Monday)

	8:00 - 8:15 am		Welcome Speech by Dr. Kathryn L. Braun, Director of Center on Aging, University of Hawaii
	8:15 - 10:00 am		Discussion: What is Gerontology and it’s Importance Dr. David Peterson & Dr. Kathryn L. Braun
	10:15 - 12:15 pm		Men’s Issues on Aging: Illuminated Life Dr. Abe Arkoff
	1:00 - 3:00 pm		East-West Center Summer Seminar - Presentation of Health Planning for Aging Population
	3:15 - 4:30 pm		Panel Discussion: Opportunities to Volunteer to Seniors in Hawaii Moderator - Dr. Cullen Hayashida Sage Plus - Gwen Ouye, Project Dana - Rose Nakamura, AARP - Ruth Dias

June 27 (Tuesday)

	8:30 - 10:15 am		Women’s Issues on Aging - Dr. Collette Browne
	10:30 - 12:15 pm		How my wife, Lynne, lived her dying - Rev. Mitsuo Aoki
	1:15 pm - 3:00 pm		Medical Research Updates - Dr. Patricia L. Blanchette
	3:15 pm - 5:00 pm		Music and Wellness - Dr. Arthur Harvey

June 28 (Wednesday)

	8:00 am - 9:45 am		Intergenerational Programs: Planning Principles and Program - Dr. Matthew Kaplan
	9:45 am - 12:00 pm		Noelani Elementary School - Mr. Clayton Fujie
	1:00 pm - 2:45 pm		Makua Alii Senior Center - Mr. Michel Aoki
	3:00 pm - 5:00 pm		Hawaii Kai Retirement Community

June 29 (Thursday)

	8:00 am - 9:30 am		Long-Term Care Policy: Comparison between U.S. and Germany - Dr. Eldon Wegner
	9:45 am - 11:30 am		Exercise Psychology for Older Adults - Dr. Deborah Merritt
	12:30 pm - 1:45 pm		NIHONSAN study - Dr. Lon White
	2:00 pm - 3:45 pm		Sexuality after 50 - Dr. Harvey Gochros
	3:45 pm - 5:00 pm		Healthy Aging/Successful Aging - Dr. Kathryn L. Braun

June 30 (Friday)

	8:00 am - 8:30 am		Registration at East West Center Governor’s Conference on Health and Wellness Tourism for the Japanese Senior Market
	5:30 pm - 7:00 pm		Reception at Washington Place (Governor’s residence)

July 1 (Saturday)

10:00 am

Check out - East West Center

1.		Kathryn L. Braun, Dr. Ph.(Public Health), is Director of the University of Hawaii Center on Aging and Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii School of Public Health. Her research focuses on Asian and Pacific Island Aging, with publications exploring ethnic differences in life expectancy and mortality as well as cultural variations in disease perceptions and health practices. She is author of the study and faculty guides associated with the telecourse, “Growing Old in a New Age.” She is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America and Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. She received a Board of Regent’s Medal for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Hawaii in 1998.

2.		Abe Arkoff, Ph.D. (Psychology), is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where, as a volunteer, he now leads workshops for its Academy of Lifelong Learning. Dr. Arkoff is a licensed, board-certified clinical psychologist who has practiced in various settings. Dr. Arkoff’s current interests are in reminiscence and life review and in personal growth and aging. During his teaching career, he has created a number of new programs and won two awards for excellence in teaching. His books include Adjustment and Mental Health, Explorations in Human Behavior, Psychology and Personal Growth, Explorations in Personal Growth, The Illuminated Life, The Illuminated Life: Your Third Age Lifebook, and The Illuminated Life: Your Lifebook.

3.		Cullen Hayashida, Ph.D. (Sociology) is currently the Deputy Director of Hawaii Health Systems Foundation in Honolulu, HI and the president of the Assisted Living Options Hawaii which is Hawaii’s first professional association to foster the development of assisted living and other residential alternatives. He is also a graduate affiliate faculty with Sociology and the School of Public Health at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has been involved with long-term care service development since 1979 first at Kuakini Medical Center and then at Maluhia Long-term Care Health Center and with the Hawaii Health Systems Foundation. Since 1979, Dr. Hayashida was involved with the development of 18 long-term care projects that are all aimed to finding more cost effective solutions to long-term care service delivery.

4.		Collette V. Browne, Dr.PH (Public Health), is a social work educator who holds a doctorate in Public Health. She is associate professor and Chair of the Gerontology Concentration at the University of Hawaii School of Social Work, Vice Chair of the State’s Policy Advisory Board for Elderly Affairs, and former Director of Geriatric Services at Kuakini Medical Center in Honolulu, The author of more than 30 professional journals and book chapters, she is also the author of “Women, Feminism, and Aging”, and co-author/editor (with Roberta Onisuka Anderson), of “Our Aging Parents: A Practical Guide to Eldercare.”


5.		Mitsuo Aoki, Ph.D. (Religion) was born into a Japanese Buddhist family and converted to the Christian faith in his late twenties. He has spent years studying the art of death and dying, interviewing gurus and Zen masters. Now retired from a 36 years teaching career at the University of Hawaii Department of Religion, he is busy as both founder and president of the Foundation for Holistic Healing.

6.		Patricia L. Blanchette, M.D., MPH is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is director of the medical school’s cross-departmental Geriatric Medicine Program and Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program, the Pacific islands Geriatric Education Center, and the John A. Hartford Foundation-Kuakini Medical Center’s Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine. She is board certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine. She has won numerous awards and honors, including an Excellence in Teaching Award, Distinguished Alumni, Best Doctors in America, and the Soroptimist’s Women of Distinction Award.

7.		Arthur W. Harvey, D.M.A. (Music Education & Psychology), is Coordinator of Music Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Music Department, and Director of Music and Worship at Calvary by the Sea Lutheran Church, as well as Executive Director of MUSIC FOR HEALTH SERVICES. Dr. Harvey is a performer, conductor, author, researcher and consultant, and has taught throughout the world. For the LIND Institute he recently co-authored a book and CD, LEARN WITH THE CLASSICS, and has produced a set of MUSIC FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS CDs.

8.		Matthew Kaplan, Ph.D. (Psychology), is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Hawaii Pacific University and an executive Director of the Hawaii Intergenerational Network, an organization devoted to promoting intergenerational programs and polities in the state of Hawaii. Dr. Kaplan published a guidebook for teachers entitled Side by Side: Exploring Your Neighborhood Through Intergenerational Activities and has written numerous articles, presented at conferences and produced two videotapes on topics within the intergenerational studies subject area. During the 1994-95, he was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship and was appointed as “Visiting Professor” at the Department of Public Health, Tohoku University School of Medicine to conduct research on intergenerational programs in Japan. From this research, he co-authored a book entitled, The Role of Intergenerational Programs for Supporting Children, Youth and Elders in Japan.

9.		Eldon L. Wegner, Ph.D. (Sociology), is currently Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Professor Wegner received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin in 1967. His principal fields of research and teaching are Medical Sociology, Sociology of Aging, and Social Psychology. For the past 15 years, he has primarily focused on issues of long-term care for the elderly, including the study of financing long-term care, the development of community-based services, and family caregiving. In 1996, he spent four months in Germany examining the implementation of the new provisions for long-term care benefits in the German health law.

10.		Deborah Merritt, Ph.D.(Physiology), is a lecturer on Anatomy for the undergraduate students at the John A. Burn’s School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 1982, she became an independent contractor and began doing business as “Hawaii Therapeutic Exercise” a company providing private and group exercise, for people with osteo-and rheumatoid arthritis, cerebral palsy, post-polio syndrome, Parkinson’s Disease and stroke, and staff training and program development for various organizations that work with Seniors.

11.		Lon White, M.D., MPH, is senior neuroepidemiologist at the Pacific Health Research Institute in Honolulu, and is Professor, School of Nursing, University of Hawaii. He attended medical school at the University of Washington (Seattle) and received a masters degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.

12.		Harvey L. Gochros, DSW, has been a professor of social work at the University of Hawaii for the last 29 years. He has taught and written extensively about sex-related problems, including the sexual needs and concerns of the aging. His articles on sexuality have been included in the last three editions of the Encyclopedia of Social Work. He has also been active in AIDS education for professional helpers. He has been married for 43 years and has two adult children.