The conference participants will examine how and why language use changes with increasing age. They will discuss what psychologists and linguists can learn from each other. In addition, there will be a round table discussion addressing how findings from language research can be made accessible and useful for nurses, family members, and aging persons themselves. The conference is being held by the Corpora for Language and Aging Research (CLARe) network. It is being organized jointly by Prof. Dr. Annette Gerstenberg from Freie Universität Berlin and Dr. Catherine Bolly from the University of Cologne/UC Louvain. Their goals are to promote international exchange across strict subject boundaries and to establish genuinely linguistics issues in the field of research on human aging.