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Robert H. Binstock
Ph.D.
Professor of Bioethics
Professor of Aging, Health and Society
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Sociology
Aging and Public Policy
Health Policy
Office Phone: 216-368-3717
e-mail: rhb3@case.edu
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Bio
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ROBERT H. BINSTOCK is Professor of Aging, Health, and Society, at Case Western Reserve University. His primary tenured appointments are in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the School of Medicine, and in the School of Nursing. He holds secondary appointments as Professor in the departments of Bioethics, Medicine, Political Science, and Sociology.
A former president of the Gerontological Society of America, Dr. Binstock has served as director of a White House Task Force on Older Americans, and as chairman and member of a number of advisory panels to the United States government, state and local governments, and foundations. He is also a former Chair of the Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association. He has frequently testified before the U.S. Congress. He is presently a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Aging Society Network.
Professor Binstock has published about 300 articles, book chapters, monographs, and books. Most of them deal with politics and policies affecting aging. His 25 authored and edited books include Aging Nation: The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America (2008), and six editions of the Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences (the most recent published in 2006). Among the honors he has received for contributions to gerontology and the well-being of older persons are the Kent Award and the Brookdale Award from the Gerontological Society of America; the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Key Award from the American Public Health Association’s Gerontological Health Section; the American Society on Aging Award, and the American Society on Aging’s Hall of Fame Award, and the Ollie A. Randall Award from the National Council on Aging.
He received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Harvard University.
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Recent Publications
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James H. Schulz and Robert H. Binstock, Aging Nation: The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America (Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
Robert H. Binstock, “Our Aging Societies: Ethical, Moral, and Policy Challenges,” Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Vol 12(2007), pp. 3-9.
Robert H. Binstock, “Gerontology in Higher Education: An Autobiographical Memoir,” Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts, Vol.1, (2007), 245-258.
Robert H. Binstock, “Older Persons and Political Engagement: From Avid Voters to ‘Cooled-Out Marks’,” Generations. Vol. XXX, No. 4 (2007), pp. 24-30.
Robert H. Binstock, “Generativity and Vision,” Journal of Aging and Social Policy, Vol. 19, No. 3(2007), pp. 101-106.
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Recent Activities
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January 16: Began service on a MacArthur Foundation research network on “The Aging Society” (a $4 million, three-year project.
March 20: lecture on “Our Aging Society: Political and Policy Challenges,” presented as the George L. Maddox Lectureship, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
March 28: lecture on “Anti-Aging Science and Medicine: An Arena of Conflict and Profound Societal Implications,” at the annual National Council on the Aging/American Society on Aging, Washington, DC.
April 11: lecture on “Baby Boomers: Impact of the Next Generation of Seniors,” for the Knight Center on Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
April 14: lecture on “Our Aging Society: Political and Policy Challenges,” Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
April 18: lecture on “Our Aging Society: Political and Policy Challenges,” annual meeting of the Southern Gerontological Society, Atlanta, Georgia.
May 9: speech on “Looking Beyond Averages, Aggregates, and Stereotypes,” at a National Health Policy Forum symposium on “Public Policies for an Aging America: Looking Beyond the Averages,” Washington, DC.
June 1: presentation on “Myths and Realities of the Older Voter,” at the Age Boom Academy sponsored by the International Longevity Center-USA, New York, New York.
June 2: lecture on “Long-Term Care Reform: The Federal Policy and Political Contexts,” at the Center for Long-Term Care, Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, Chicago, Illinois.
August 1, keynote address, “Our Aging Society: Economic and Policy Challenges,” for a Cleveland Clinic symposium on Innovations in Hearing: The Aging Patient, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Contact Information
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Bob Binstock, Ph.D.
Professor of Aging, Health, and Society
School of Medicine, Rm. WG-43
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106-4945
tel 216-368-3717
fax 216-368-3970
e-mail:rhb3@case.edu
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