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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
 WORKSHOP ON DIFFERENTIAL
SUSCEPTIBILITY OF OLDER 
PERSONS TO ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
December 6, 2002
 National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
 Auditorium 
 Washington, D.C.
This transcript and the information contained therein is not an official report of the NationalAcademy of Sciences (Academy), and the opinions and the statements included in the transcriptare solely those of the individual participants as transcribed by CASET Associates, Ltd., and arenot adopted or endorsed or verified as accurate by the Academy.
 
CONTENTS
PAGE Welcome: David Wegman, Professor and Chair, Department
of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
and Chair, NRC Committee on the Health and Safety Needs1
of Older Workers
Paul Gilman, Assistant Administrator for Research and 
Development, United States Environmental Protection
 Agency, Environmental Protection Agency Research2
Perspective
Diane Gold, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard 
 Medical School, Channing Laboratory,Brigham and Women's
Hospital: Cardiovascular Effects of Ambient Particle
Pollution on the Elderly and their Potential Relation
to Autonomic Dysfunction, Pulmonary and Systemic10
Inflammation
Paul Leigh, Medical School, University of California,
Davis: Costs of Occupational Chronic Obstructive21
Pulmonary Disease and Asthma
Robert Friedland, Center on an Aging Society,35
Georgetown University: Policy Challenges
INTERVENTION AND PARTICIPATION
Scott Wright, University of Utah Gerontology Center,
Environmental Hazards and Socially Vulnerable Older
 Adults: Identifying Place-Based Risk Using GIS Spatial40
 Mapping and Analysis
Denise C. Park, Professor of Pathology, Beckman Institute,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Memory,
Comprehension and the Ability to Process Information53
Decline with Age
Jacqueline Agnew, Professor, Department of Environmental
Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public67
Health: Exposure Equity
James Sykes Fellow, Department of Health Sciences,
of 00

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