From time to time, The Resource Center on Aging will produce a digital video of presentations, and will post them on the WEB. We hope to do this more often, and eventually replace all transcribed conferences with these WEB-based videos.
Thursday, October 3rd, 2002
Beyond 50: A Report to the Nation on Trends in Health Security
A Forum on Policy to Practice
How healthy are America's mid-life and older citizens? How secure is their access to health care and long-term care? ~ Are they receiving quality care? What do the trends in health security mean for our families, communities, and society? Co-Sponsored by the Goldman School of Public Policy and the UC Berkeley Resource Center on Aging
Opening Remarks by Dean Michael Nacht, Goldman School of Public Policy
Presentation by Mr. John Rother, Director of Policy and Strategy, AARP
Panel Reaction
Mr. Andrew Scharlach, Professor of Aging, UC Berkeley
Ms. Sarah Sutro, Consultant to the California Senate Sub-Committee on Aging and Long Term Care
Ms. Patricia Sussman, Consultant to the Health Services and Employment and Human Services Departments of Contra Costa County
This forum can be viewed at: http://teles.berkeley.edu:8080/ramgen/2002/special_events/beyond50.rm
LAURENCE G. BRANCH, Ph.D.
Aging and the Health Care System in Cuba
Monday, March 12, 2001
10 AM - Noon
Howard Room, Faculty Club, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Branch has visited Cuba approximately ten times since the former Soviet Union stopped its subsidies of Cuba. Each trip was different than the one before; the standard of living has increased steadily since Cuba moved outside the soviet orbit. Cuban leaders have derived great pride in the accomplishments of the educational systems and the health care systems since the internal revolution of the late 1950s. The organizational structure of the health care delivery system is particularly interesting, and is the focus of this presentation with special attention to older adults.
Because the file takes a great deal of memory, it has been divided into three sections. The video is a bit dark, but the audio is good.
if typed into a webbrowser
http://teles.berkeley.edu:8080/ramgen/special_events/Scholar_In_Aging1.rm
http://teles.berkeley.edu:8080/ramgen/special_events/Scholar_In_Aging2.rm
http://teles.berkeley.edu:8080/ramgen/special_events/Scholar_In_Aging3.rm
or if typed into the RealPlayer itself
rtsp://teles.berkeley.edu:554/special_events/Scholar_In_Aging1.rm
rtsp://teles.berkeley.edu:554/special_events/Scholar_In_Aging2.rm
rtsp://teles.berkeley.edu:554/special_events/Scholar_In_Aging3.rm
http://media2.bmrc.berkeley.edu/bibs/archive.cfm?prog=102&group=21
The following Symposium was held in December, 2001 by UC Berkeley's School of Social Welfare. Funding for digital videoing of the symposium was provided by the UC Berkeley Resource Center on Aging/Academic Geriatric Resource Program
International Journal of Social Welfare Tenth Anniversary Symposium: International Social Security
• Welcome and introduction by Neil Gilbert and Dean Midgley followed by
Welfare and the Unemployment Crisis: Sweden in the 1990s by Joakim Palme
• Social Security Reforms in China: Problems and Prospects by Joe C. B. Leung
• The Changing World of Social Security by Dalmer Hoskins
• Individual Accounts in Social Security: Can They Be Progressive? by Michael Sherraden
• Privatization: Lessons from the Chilean Experience by Silvia Borzutzky
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