{"id":9269,"date":"2012-01-04T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:57:21","slug":"committee_on_aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/committee_on_aging\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Robert B. Hudson Serves as Lead Witness Before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9270\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9270 \" title=\"AgingSociety_December 14 2011_35\" src=\"\/ssw\/files\/2012\/01\/AgingSociety_December-14-2011_35-650x432.jpg\" alt=\"AgingSociety_December 14 2011_35\" width=\"369\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2012\/01\/AgingSociety_December-14-2011_35-650x432.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2012\/01\/AgingSociety_December-14-2011_35-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2012\/01\/AgingSociety_December-14-2011_35-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2012\/01\/AgingSociety_December-14-2011_35.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Hudson (centered) speaks at a forum before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professor and Chair of the Social Welfare Policy Department\u00a0Robert B. Hudson was the lead witness at a forum before the <a href=\"http:\/\/aging.senate.gov\/\">United States Senate Special Committee on Aging<\/a> in Washington, D.C., on December 14, 2011.\u00a0 The forum, \u201cThe Potential for an Aging Society,\u201d was held to honor the 50th anniversary of the Committee\u2019s creation in 1961. Also testifying were Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute on Aging; Assistant Secretary for Aging Kathy Greenlee, Department of Health and Human Services; and\u00a0 John W. Rowe, director, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society.<\/p>\n<p>The forum was followed by a reception sponsored by the Gerontological Society of America attended by some 200 people, including numerous past chairs and staff directors of the Committee.\u00a0 The current issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ppar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Public Policy &amp; Aging Report<\/em><\/a>, which Professor Hudson edits, features articles by Professor Hudson and MacArthur Network scholars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor and Chair of the Social Welfare Policy Department\u00a0Robert B. Hudson was the lead witness at a forum before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging in Washington, D.C., on December 14, 2011.\u00a0 The forum, \u201cThe Potential for an Aging Society,\u201d was held to honor the 50th anniversary of the Committee\u2019s creation in 1961. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7427,4057],"tags":[7283,7285,7286,7284,2137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80658,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions\/80658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}