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'Georgia's Aging Population' conference proceedings now available

3/17/2008

The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies hosted a conference in Fall 2007 addressing a specific issue -- the aging population in Georgia.

We would like to take a moment to explain how we came to the decision to host this conference to meet the needs of Georgia’s officials. Those of us in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies’ Public Performance and Management Group (PPM) held a number of meetings with various local and state officials as well as representatives of city and county associations over the past year. These discussions were wide ranging, beginning with an overview of what PPM does and often leading into talk about current and future issues public sector workers face. Out of these conversations a theme began to evolve. Practitioners said they would expect a policy studies institution to be able to prepare them on emerging issues, advise them on trends and train them how to make forecasts. The main question boiled down to “What can we expect to see in the next five, ten and twenty years?” The conference was born out of finding answers to this question.

The day-long conference "Georgia's Aging Population: What to Expect and How to Cope" was held on September 27, 2007, here at Georgia State University. Hundreds of state and local officials attended, and requests for a copy of the presentations and data led to the publication of the conference proceedings. The proceedings provide a summary of conference presentations and small group discussions of the participants. The appendices contain the complete white papers, a set of data tables on Georgia’s elderly, and biographical sketches of the speakers, panelists and white paper authors.

You can download the related data tables below.

  • A Profile of Georgia's Senior Population: Everything from A to Z

    The Andrew Young School has prepared an extensive set of data tables that give a picture of Georgia’s elderly in a variety of areas. These tables include information on demographics, income, housing, veterans, Medicaid, Medicare and various health measures. A number of the tables compare Georgia to the other states and the southeastern region, and
    many tables have county breakdowns. Download these tables below.