Women and Aging:
Ethical Implications for 2005 and Beyond

The Women's Bioethics Project and SAGE Crossroads will sponsor a panel of experts from law, medicine, and humanities examine ethical considerations of women and aging. These experts will look at the assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being, self-respect, and dignity as we age.

Issues discussed will include:

      * What are the gender differences in status and power as people age?
      * Women live longer than men -- does the debate about rationing health
         care on the basis of age adequately take this into account?
      * Women are most often lifelong caregivers to children and elderly
        parents -- how does society and, specifically, public policy – help
        support this selfless behavior?
      * How are proxy end-of-life decisions made differently for women, as
        they most often outlive their spouses or do not remarry after
        divorce and these decisions are made by children or distant
        relatives rather than life partners?

When:        Wednesday, June 8, 2005
               Registration: 6:30pm   Event: 7:00pm - 9:00 p.m.
               ***Wine and Cheese reception immediately following the panel
               discussion

Where: Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park
1400 East Prospect St., Volunteer Park, Seattle, Wash.

Who: Nancy Hooyman, PhD, Professor and Dean Emeritus,
University of Washington School of Social Work

Patricia Kuszler, JD, MD, Associate Dean
University of Washington School of Law

               Helene Starks, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of
               Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington School
               of Medicine

Artee Young, PhD, JD, Professor,
The Evergreen State College