{"id":9507,"date":"2020-05-30T22:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T17:49:51","slug":"covid-19-cities-supporting-aging-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2020\/05\/30\/covid-19-cities-supporting-aging-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 &#038; Cities: Supporting Aging Populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yrDcEFTz8R4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span>On May 27, 2020, the Boston University Initiative on Cities (IOC) and the Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) held a webinar to discuss the challenges and trends that aging populations face as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how cities are responding. IOC Co-Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/who-we-are\/leadership\/5164-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katharine Lusk<\/a> moderated and was joined by:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/bronwyn-keefe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bronwyn Keefe<\/a>, Director of the BUSSW <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Aging and Disability Education Research<\/a> (CADER) and Research Assistant Professor at the BUSSW<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Antron Watson, Age-Friendly Director for <a href=\"https:\/\/states.aarp.org\/massachusetts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AARP Massachusetts\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can view the <a href=\"\/ioc\/files\/2020\/05\/COVID19_supporting-aging-populations.pdf\">slides used in the presentations here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 27, 2020, the Boston University Initiative on Cities (IOC) and the Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) held a webinar to discuss the challenges and trends that aging populations face as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how cities are responding. IOC Co-Director Katharine Lusk moderated and was joined by: Bronwyn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[160,10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11319,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions\/11319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}