As you may know, the White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA) will take place sometime next year. The White House has held this event each decade since the 1960s to focus on national aging policy. The conference is meant to be visionary-setting out ideas for the next decade.
GSA is very lucky to have Nora Super, the WHCoA's Executive Director, attend this year's Annual Scientific Meeting to conduct a listening session on the four primary topics that have been identified for WHCoA: (1) retirement security, (2) long-term services and supports, (3) healthy aging, and (4) realizing the vision of the Elder Justice Act.
The session-open to all attendees-will be held on Friday, November 7th, 5:00pm-6:30pm, and will feature short presentations from a panel of four GSA members (details forthcoming) who will summarize the state-of-our-knowledge and present one or two "actionable ideas" for each key topic.
To help the panelists represent the voice of GSA, we encourage you to post your ideas here-so that the panelists may use them to inform their presentations.
Building upon the listening session, and the ideas submitted in this online forum, GSA also plans to develop a policy brief that will be submitted to the WHCoA in early 2015.
What do you think are the key issues and recommendations GSA should focus on with regard to the WHCoA's primary topics?
We look forward to hearing what you have to say!
Greg
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Greg O'Neill
Director
National Academy on an Aging Society
Washington DC
(202)842-1275
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