• FSU researchers receive NIH grant to study effects of resiliency

    Dawn Carr, an associate professor of sociology and the director of FSU’s Claude Pepper Center, and Miles Taylor, a professor of sociology and director of FSU’s Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, will be co-principal investigators on the study “Psychological Resilience as a Health Resource in the Context of Stressful Life Events in Later Life.” They will lead a team including Florida State students and outside consultants.

  • Older Workers and Retirement

    The CPC provides policy-informed research related to the economic, quality of life, psychological, and cognitive implications of longer working lives. In addition, with a growing proportion of older adults engaging in some amount of paid work after leaving their primary career jobs, the CPC seeks to provide research and leadership about the changing nature of retirement.

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  • Claude Pepper Elder Law Moot Court Competition Welcome Reception

    FSU Claude Pepper Elder Law Clinic is proud to present the Elder Law Moot Court Competition. The Clinic will host a welcome reception for all competitors on Thursday, November 7. This welcome reception will be attended by lawyers and policy specialists who focus on aging and elder law issues.

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  • Opening Minds through Art (OMA)

    This intergenerational art-making program for people living with dementia was founded at the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University (Ohio) in 2007. OMA was launched at Florida State University in September 2023 with ten interns. Now the program has over fifteen student interns across three majors, as well as volunteers from the Elder Law Clinic. This program aims to build bridges across age and cognitive barriers, promote autonomy, and provide people living with dementia a chance at social engagement.

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  • What Is Consumer Law?

    Join the Elder Law Clinic and the Public Interest Law Students Association to learn about the expansive field of consumer law! Ted Mermin, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, will discuss this growing field and the many opportunities for students.

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  • 2025 OAGE Conference Keynote Speakers

    Bowling Green State University and the Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education present the 2025 OAGE Conference. The conference theme is Relationships and Aging: Successes and Challenges with families, Caregivers, and the Workforce.

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The Claude Pepper Center is dedicated to keeping Sen. Pepper’s vision of America and sense of moral purpose central to the nation’s public life. The Claude Pepper Center intends to achieve this mission through research, policy analysis, public information, educational and advocacy initiatives. 

All of our activities are dedicated to sustaining the Senator’s view that “the national attitude toward old people has made a 180-degree turn. More and more, younger generations have come to realize that in their elders they have a precious and useful asset, not a burden. Old people are the same persons they were when they were young. Some may not hear so well, may have to wear glasses, maybe are a step slower when they walk. But they are not useless, and they must not be treated as outcasts, as more and more Americans have come to realize.”

For more information about Senator Claude Pepper, you may visit the Claude Pepper Foundation’s website.

Mission

The Claude Pepper Center aims to identify policy solutions that enhance the financial, psychological, cognitive, physical, and social wellbeing of older adults and their families in the state of Florida and beyond, and help people reach later life with the resources they need to be active and engaged members of their communities.

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Director’s Message

At the Claude Pepper Center, we honor Claude Pepper’s legacy and commitment to the rights and welfare of older people living in Florida and beyond. Our initiatives at the CPC focus on solutions for older people so they may remain independent, engaged members of their communities as long as possible.

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