EPA Public Listening Session to Frame National Agenda on the Environment and the Aging

5/6/2003

From: Luke Hester of the Environmental Protection Agency, 202-564-7818 or hester.luke@epa.gov

News Advisory:

In a recently announced EPA initiative to protect older Americans from environmental health hazards, EPA will convene the last in a series of public listening sessions held across the country. The public listening sessions are part of a nationwide effort to encourage public participation in the development of a National Agenda on the Environment and the Aging. The National Agenda will build on EPA's ongoing aging research efforts, identify research gaps in environmental health, develop strategies to prepare for a rapidly aging population, and encourage older adults to volunteer in local environmental health awareness and improvement efforts.

WHO: -- Christie Whitman, EPA Administrator -- Don Welsh, EPA Region 3 Regional Administrator -- Janet D. Allan, Ph.D, R.N. FAAN, Dean, University of Maryland School of Nursing -- Jay S. Magaziner, PhD, M.S. Hyg, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine; Director, Division of Gerontology, University of Maryland School of Medicine -- John P. Stewart, Executive Director, Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Education -- Jean W. Roesser, Secretary, Maryland Department of Aging -- Kendl P. Philbrick, Deputy Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment

WHAT: Public Listening Session to develop a National Agenda on the Environment and the Aging

WHEN: Wednesday, May 7, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

WHERE: Auditorium, School of Nursing, University of Maryland Baltimore 655 West Lombard St., Baltimore, Md.

For further information, go to: http://www.epa.gov/aging or call 1-866-EPA-AGED (1-866-372-2433). The listening session is cosponsored by the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Nursing, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine and Center for Research on Aging, and the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Education.