The future of aging in the US
What does the future of aging in America look like? For answers, every year we ask some of our newest Influencers in Aging to offer their views at the American Society on Aging’s Aging in America conference.
The pandemic turned this year’s in-person panel into a June 11 webinar, and the Influencers’ forecasts — as well as their laments — couldn’t have been timelier. “I want to acknowledge that we as a country have had a few rough months and weeks.
We are living and dying in at least two pandemics: Covid-19 and racism,” said panelist Imani Woody, named an Influencer in Aging for her work to create Mary’s House, an independent living community for LGBTQ older adults in Washington, D.C.
The Influencers in Aging Webinar Panelists
The two pandemics shaped Woody’s webinar comments as well as those of the two other panelists: Ron Long, head of Wells Fargo’s Aging Client Services Center of Excellence and an authority on elder financial abuse, and Larry Curley, executive director of the National Indian Council on Aging, a nonprofit advocating for the health, social services and economic well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native Elders.
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