IAA teaching engagements in 2008

INIA Course: Social gerontology

In December 2008, the International Institute of Ageing (INIA), United Nations - Malta, offered its second in-situ training course in South Africa in partnership with North-West University (NWU) in Johannesburg.

Fifty-eight professionals, practitioners and academics participated in the course. Dr Sebastiana Kalula, Director of the Albertina & Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing (IAA), taught the health and health care module.

This followed the first INIA course which took place in Cape Town in 1995 and was organised by the HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology and Age-in-Action. 

IAA/ILCSA Seminar Series: Older women and HIV/AIDS

The seminar series was jointly hosted by the Albertina & Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing (IAA) and the International Longevity Centre South Africa (ILCSA).

Enid Schatz, a demographer, sociologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri, United States, gave a seminar at the IAA/ILCSA Seminar Series 2008 in July.

The topic of her seminar is "Co-existing discourses: how older women in South Africa make sense of the HIV/AIDS epidemic".

Schatz has been conducting research in South Africa on issues relating to gender, ageing and AIDS since 2002. Her work focuses primarily on the social and structural impacts of HIV/AIDS on households in rural South Africa, with an emphasis on gendered and generational dynamics.