While our events calendar may vary, we consistently contribute to aging services, programs, and policies through research dissemination, professional development, and community outreach. Explore our updates to learn about past activities, upcoming opportunities, and the ongoing work that shapes the future of aging.

UPCOMING EVENTS

November 2025: This year, CASAS team members will be presenting research about policy on diverse health and aging, social justice for aging centers, conflicting rights in nursing homes, LGBTQIA+ rural aging, long-term care in Taiwan, and civic participation, and solo caregiving among Chinese-only children. Specific presentations include:

Laurent Reyes, In Their Words: African American and Latine Immigrant Older Adults (Re)Define Civic Participation, November 12th, 2025

Leyi (Joy) Zhou, Sole Caregiving from Afar: Unpacking Transnational Caregiving Among the Chinese Only-Children in the U.S., November 13th, 2025

Mo’e Yaisikana, Aging in Democracy: Accomplishments and Challenges of Long-Term Care Policy in Post-Authoritarian Taiwan, November 15th, 2025

PAST EVENTS

March 2025: CASAS co-sponsored an event with the Center for Research on Social Change (part of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues), Latinx Research Center, and the Department of African American Studies, featuring Dr. Laurent Reyes’s work, which presents three new definitions of civic participation, derived directly from participants’ conceptualization and applied across their lived experiences. Definitions present civic participation as a responsibility of community belonging; as a religious/spiritual practice; and as a way of life. These definitions provide new perspectives by which to study civic participation and challenge current framing of helper and needy, altruism, the voluntary nature of participation, and the separation between social, political, and spiritual participation.

April / May 2025: CASAS Director Angie Perone presented findings with doctoral student Leyi (Joy) Zhou and community partners from the HOMES Coalition, Openhouse, and Front Porch about community-engaged research projects on homesharing collaborations and LGBTQIA+ housing and health at the annual conferences for the American Society on Aging in Orlando, FL and LeadingAge California in San Diego, CA.

June 2025: CASAS Director Angie Perone and visiting scholar Leixuri Urrutia-Pujana presented work on conflicting rights in nursing homes and climate change and caregiving at the annual Transforming Care Conference at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

NEWS 

June 2025: Dr. Perone was invited by the San Francisco Bay Area Times, an LGBTQ+ News and Calendar for the Bay Area, to publish an Op-Ed related to our LGBTQ Aging with Pride Focus Group project. Here, Dr. Perone shared the story of a participant named Chicharita and outlined the daily challenges and experiences faced by the transgender community.

You can read the op-ed, titled Elevating Voices, Awareness, and Support for Transgender Older Californians, on San Francisco Bay Area Times’ website by clicking the underlined link above.