BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260514T091649EDT-1591pZU2Kh@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260514T131649Z DESCRIPTION:Register Now!\n\nWe are pleased to announce the upcoming CAnD3 Keynote Address\, the culminating event of our 2025-2026 Training Program. This hybrid event\, hosted annually at the McGill Faculty Club\, featurin g Professor Deborah Carr from Boston University\, and guest Dragon's Den j udge André Picard\, will bring together Dragon's Den finalists\, CAnD3 alu mni\, institutional partners\, and current Fellows. It commemorates the ac hievements of our six consecutive cohorts (2020-2026).\n\nProfessor Carr's presentation\, Older Adults' Complex Family Lives in the 21st Century: Im plications for End-of-Life Preparations and Well-Being\, draws on her ongo ing research into how family structure shapes the experience of dying in l ater life. Advances in medical technologies mean that older adults are liv ing longer than ever before\, with most dying of chronic diseases that hav e protracted symptoms and require difficult decisions about end-of-life ca re. Most older adults rely on their families for advance care planning\, a dvocacy\, and decision-making — raising concerns about the rising numbers of adults growing old without a spouse or children. Her presentation exami nes how: (1) marital trajectories and parental statuses affect advance car e planning\, a critical step for attaining a 'good death\,' and (2) marita l status affects ten end-of-life quality outcomes as assessed by the deced ent's proxy. Analyses are based on the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) a nd National Health and Aging Trends (NHATS) surveys. Implications for poli cy\, practice\, and future research will be discussed.\n\n\nItinerary \n\n Door opens at 10:00 AM.\n\n10:00 - 10:30 | Public Registration with Coffee \n\n10:30 - 11:50 | Keynote Lecture by Prof. Carr and Q&A\n\n11:50 - 12:00  | Rapid fire introduction of posters\n\n12:00 -13:30 | Lunch & poster ses sion 1\n\n13:30 - 14:30 | Dragons' Den Finals \n\n14:30 - 14:45 | Coffee b reak\n\n14:45 - 15:30 | Dragons' Den Finals\n\n15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee brea k with poster session 2 \n\n16:00 - 16:30 | Announcement of Dragons' Den W inners & Closing Remarks\n\n16:30 - 18:30 | Cocktail mixer\n\n\nFeatured S peaker\n\nDeborah Carr\n\nDirector of the Center for Innovation in Social Science and A&S Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Boston University\n \nDeborah Carr is director of the Center of Innovation in Social Science a nd A&S Distinguished Professor of sociology.Her work spans inequality in o ld age\, death and dying\, bereavement\, family relationships\, and health -related stigma. She has published more than 120 articles and chapters\, a nd several books including Aging in America (University of California Pres s\, 2023) and Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later Life (Russell Sage\ , 2019)\, which received the 2020 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Aw ard from the Gerontological Society of America.\n Her research has been fun ded by the National Institutes of Health\, the RRF Foundation on Aging\, t he Templeton Foundation\, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She curr ently serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Health and Social Behavi or and is principal investigator of the National Longitudinal Survey of Yo uth 1979 (NLSY79). A fellow of the Gerontological Society of America\, she received the 2022 Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award and was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2024. Her research and commentary have been featured in outlets including The New York Times\ , CNN\, USA Today\, and PBS.\n\n \n\n \n\nDragon's Den Guest Judge\n\nAndr é Picard\n\nAuthor and Journalist\, Globe and Mail\n\nAndré Picard is a he alth reporter and columnist for The Globe and Mail\, where he has been a s taff writer since 1987. He is also the author of six bestselling books. An dré is a two-time winner of the Columns category at Canada's National News paper Awards\, and past winner of prestigious Michener Award for meritorio us public service journalism.He was named Canada’s first Public Health Her o by the Canadian Public Health Association\, and a Champion of Mental Hea lth by the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health. He recei ved the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his dedication to imp roving healthcare. André is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and Car leton University\, and has received honorary doctorates from eight univers ities\, including UBC and the University of Toronto.\n\n\nLocation \n\nThi s is a hybrid event. The online portion of the event will be held on Zoom\ , and the in-person portion will be held at the Faculty Club (3450 McTavis h Street) at McGill University in Montreal\, Canada. Please note that in-p erson capacity is limited. Register now!\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260609 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260609 LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E5\, Hybrid: Faculty Club\, McGill Unive rsity & Online\, 3450 McTavish Street SUMMARY:2026 CAnD3 Keynote Address: Older Adults' Complex Family Lives in t he 21st Century: Implications for End-of-Life Preparations and Well-Being URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/cand3/channels/event/2026-cand3-keynote-address-o lder-adults-complex-family-lives-21st-century-implications-end-life-371993 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR