{"id":314,"date":"2013-08-04T23:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agingstudies.org\/NANAS\/?page_id=314"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:57:35","slug":"nanas-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agingstudies.org\/NANAS\/?page_id=314","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The first meeting of the North American Network in Aging Studies.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The North American Network in Aging Studies (NANAS) was established in January, 2013 by a small group of humanities and social science scholars who were interested in critical examinations of older age that moved away from the experimental sciences and instead spoke to fundamental questions of human existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NANAS was inspired by the creation of the\u00a0European Network in Aging\u00a0Studies<\/a>\u00a0(ENAS), whose mission is to \u201cfacilitate sustainable, international and multi-disciplinary collaboration among all researchers interested in\u00a0the study of cultural aging.\u201d\u00a0 Plans to form NANAS began\u00a0at the inaugural ENAS conference, held in\u00a0Maastricht, The Netherlands, in October 2011. In July 2013, NANAS\u00a0held a planning retreat at Hiram College in Ohio, which was attended by scholars from the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Austria.\u00a0 NANAS hosted its first research conference in\u00a0May 2015 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and its first joint conference with ENAS in\u00a0April 2017 at the University of Graz, Austria.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NANAS\u2019s ongoing mission is to facilitate sustainable interdisciplinary collaborations and methodologies that bridge the medical and social sciences and the humanities, supporting research that increases understandings of the cultural meanings of the aging processes across the lifespan in order to challenge stereotypes and provide creative approaches that improve the health, care, and quality of life for people aging into old age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attendees at the 2015 NANAS Conference in Oxford, Ohio.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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