Hiram J. Friedsam Mentorship Award Lecture

Abstract The Hiram J. Friedsam Award lecture will feature an address by the 2020 award recipient, Karen Kopera-Frye, PhD, MPA, FGSA, FAGHE. Hiram J. Friedsam was the professor, co-founder, and director of the Center for Studies in Aging and dean of the School of Community Service at the University of Northern Texas. Dr. Friedsam was an outstanding teacher, researcher, colleague, and mentor to students, faculty, and administrators, as well as a past president of AGHE. The purpose of this award is to recognize those who emulate Dr. Friedsam’s excellence in mentorship.

for screening, extracting, and analyzing data. The final sample consisted of 19 studies with the following themes: Characterizing Spiritual Needs, Preferences, and Resources; Characterizing Palliative or Spiritual Care; Predicting Provision of Spiritual Care; and Assessing Spiritual Care Interventions. Eighteen studies were published in the past decade, and eleven were based in Europe. The majority of studies focused on long-term care settings, grouped stages of dementia or did not specify dementia stage, and investigated interventions indirectly related to spiritual palliation. Many studies were limited in sample size and in generalizability / transferability and used less sophisticated research designs. Accordingly, research across dementia, spirituality, and palliative care needs to examine distinct stages of dementia; hospital-, home-and community-based settings; and formal spiritual care interventions (e.g., administered by chaplains) and needs to utilize rigorous study designs (e.g., randomized clinical trials). Such research could advance practice and policy that enhance quality of life for tens of millions of persons with dementia and their family members worldwide.

CLARK TIBBITTS AWARD LECTURE Chair: Cynthia Hancock
The Clark Tibbitts Award lecture will feature an address by the 2020 award recipient, Jan Abusharkrah, PhD, FAGHE. AGHE's Clark Tibbitts Award was established in 1980 and named for an architect of the field of gerontological education. The award is given each year to an individual or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of gerontology and geriatrics education. This lecture reflects on the highlights of my journey to become a gerontologist: •Joining AGHE in 1998 as PCC explored the development of the first and only Gerontology associate degree in Oregon •Collaborating with community and academic partners to create an applied and evolving curriculum •Empowering older, encore students to translate their experience and compassion into professional careers that embodied their passion •Mentoring hundreds of students to harness their creativity and engage in bold innovation to transform aging lives •Grappling with how to measure and ensure student learning in a way that would make a difference in aging lives •Participating in the working group that developed the Gerontology Education Competencies and currently serving on the founding Board of Governors of the Accreditation for Gerontology Education Council.

HIRAM J. FRIEDSAM MENTORSHIP AWARD LECTURE Chair: Cynthia Hancock
The Hiram J. Friedsam Award lecture will feature an address by the 2020 award recipient, Karen Kopera-Frye, PhD, MPA, FGSA, FAGHE. Hiram J. Friedsam was the professor, co-founder, and director of the Center for Studies in Aging and dean of the School of Community Service at the University of Northern Texas. Dr. Friedsam was an outstanding teacher, researcher, colleague, and mentor to students, faculty, and administrators, as well as a past president of AGHE. The purpose of this award is to recognize those who emulate Dr. Friedsam's excellence in mentorship.

MENTORING ACROSS ACADEMIA AND COMMUNITIES: A HOLISTIC APPROACH INVOLVING NEEDS OF THE MENTEE Karen Kopera-Frye, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
What is mentoring? Mentoring is defined as a professional relationship in which an experienced person assists another in developing specific skills and knowledge enhancing the mentee's professional and personal growth. Mentoring benefits include: Knowledge transfer, creating a mentoring culture, and challenging the mentee to move beyond their comfort zone. Carmel and Paul (2015) describe self-selected mentoring as a process in which a mentee identifies a potential mentor based on similarities in interests and need. Findings indicated mentees experienced opportunities in career advancement, expanded thinking, scholarly confidence, facilitation of a collaborative culture, and understanding the importance of goal setting. Mentoring as a health promotion or intervention strategy has become widespread in communities. Two mentoring approaches will be discussed: a traditional format with students and faculty in academia, another utilizing an intergenerational approach with Latinx and Native American families. Recommendations will be discussed in terms of underlying core similarities across the venues.

KENT AND KLEEMEIER AWARD LECTURE AND PRESENTATIONS Chair: Debra Dobbs
The Donald P. Kent Award lecture will feature an address by the 2019 Kent Award recipient, Terry Fulmer, PhD, of The John A. Hartford Foundation. The Kent Award is given annually to a member of The Gerontological Society of America who best exemplifies the highest standards of professional leadership in gerontology through teaching, service, and interpretation of gerontology to the larger society. The Robert W. Kleemeier Award lecture will feature an address by the 2019 Kleemeier Award recipient, Steven Zarit of Pennsylvania State University. The Kleemeier Award is given annually to a member of The Gerontological Society of America in recognition for outstanding research in the field of gerontology

CREATING AGE-FRIENDLY HEALTH SYSTEMS: AGE MATTERS Terry Fulmer, The John A. Hartford Foundation, New York, New York, United States
Since 2015, The John A. Hartford Foundation has been funding strategies to create Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS). Led by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the Catholic Health Association, the AFHS movement is rapidly growing, with participation in all 50 states from over 450 sites, including the full continuum of care settings. Partnerships with private and public entities are accelerating the work. As one example, the Health Resources and Services Administration has embedded AFHS principles into the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program. This Kent Lecture will focus on the genesis and trajectory of the AFHS social movement and discuss how the effort will lead to an age-friendly ecosystem that transcends boundaries and cultures and leads to a common framework for the way we approach care, caregiving and communities for optimizing the lives and wellbeing of all older adults.

REFLECTIONS ON A CAREER IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION Steven Zarit, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States
This presentation will focus on three issues that were important in my career: family caregiving, international collaborations, and mentorship. Having spent considerable time studying family caregiving, I will highlight what I consider are fundamental issues that characterize family care and provide a necessary foundation for generating strong research questions. I will also suggest new directions for improving design and evaluation of interventions. International collaborations can help us broaden our understanding of aging and on care of older people. I had the good fortune to work with a great research team in Sweden. I will describe research we did on functioning and cognition among the oldest old. I also had the opportunity to see first-hand high-quality programs for older people that showed we can do better than accept mediocrity as the norm in care. Finally, I will discuss the importance of mentorship and bringing forward the next generation of researchers.

M. POWELL LAWTON AWARD PRESENTATION
Chair: Debra Dobbs "The lecture will be given by the2019 recipient, Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FGSA of the University of Maryland. The session will also include the presentation of the2020 Lawton Award to recipient Sara J. Czaja, PhD, FGSA. The M. Powell Lawton Award is presented annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions from applied research that has benefited older people and their care. The Lawton Award is generously funded by the Polisher Research Institute of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life."

M. POWELL LAWTON AWARD PRESENTATION Barbara Resnick, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dr. Lawton focused his life work, starting in the 1960s, on improving the lives of older adults, particularly those with dementia. He did this at a time when care was custodial at best. He was innovative and initiated new thoughts about how to best care for individuals in institutional settings.