For many years, LeadingAge has been calling on Congress to implement reforms that would expand the number of foreign-born workers with a legal pathway to join aging services care teams around our nation. A few weeks ago, we reiterated our call for immigration reform by releasing a new white paper, […]
On July 24, Linda Couch, LeadingAge’s senior vice president of policy and advocacy, told a member story during her testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance of the Committee on Financial Services in the U.S. House of Representatives. The story was short but powerful: In September 2023, St. Margaret’s […]
Last fall, I shared with you the disturbing news that trust in nonprofit organizations was declining in America, as reported by Independent Sector in its 2023 Trust in Nonprofits and Philanthropy report. Today, I write with better news: according to the organization’s 2024 report, we may be turning things around. […]
Remember when technology solutions were just for “techies”? That was before Alexa turned on our lights, Siri dialed our phone, and Fathom took minutes in our meetings. Today, game-changing Artificial Intelligence (AI) is so ubiquitous and rapidly evolving that it can be head-spinning. Data confirms what many are feeling. A […]
Dear LeadingAge members, I am pleased to share with you the result of months of engagement and discussion across the LeadingAge community: the 2024–2026 LeadingAge Strategic Plan. I am proud of what we have created together: a plan that is responsive to the current environment and at the same time […]
It’s nearly impossible to read an article about aging without being reminded that the older population is growing rapidly and will continue to do so well into the future. We hear this projection so often that it’s easy to dismiss it as “common knowledge” and move on. But I assure […]
“There’s probably not a day that goes by where I don’t ask somebody from the LeadingAge family, ‘What would you do? What have you done?’ The network I’ve made is essential.” I stopped in my tracks last week after reading these words from Aline Rusotto, executive director of Orchard Cove, […]
And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. I have always loved these words from German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke. They aptly sum up the joy, excitement—and, indeed, the great sense of hope—that comes, sometimes inexplicably, with the annual act of flipping our […]
In late October 2023, New York Times columnist David Brooks published a book he hoped would offer readers practical lessons on how to make others feel valued and understood. Brooks had personal reasons for writing How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. […]
I have been thinking a lot lately about what matters. What mattered in the past? What matters now? What will matter in the future? We only need to look at the history of LeadingAge for an answer to my first question. Our association was created 60 years ago as a […]
