This article contains excerpts from the opening and closing remarks delivered at CAG2021 - the Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) - which was hosted virtually from October 21 to 23, 2021. This event commemorated CAG's 50th anniversary and included 645 delegates from across Canada and the world. The conference theme, "Hindsight 20/20: Looking Back for a Vision Forward in Gerontology," focused on the burgeoning gerontological work that examines the various and complex ways that COVID-19 has affected older people and aging, as well as the need to develop a stronger emphasis on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the field of gerontology.
Keywords: SARS‐CoV‐2; aging; coronavirus; culture; human rights; interdisciplinarity; knowledge dissemination; prejudice; social behaviour.