Adrienne Powell Ruffin, vice president, LTSS Center strategic initiatives for the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, wrote movingly last year about the experience of joining LeadingAge in 2001 and finding herself in a community of members that was almost exclusively white. In her article, Building a Village at LeadingAge: Reflections […]
Older adults who rely on federal affordable housing programs to avoid homelessness will suffer because of the deal’s spending caps. Stop asking me if I’m relieved that the debt ceiling deal saved Medicare, saved Medicaid, saved Social Security, saved the world economy. Sure, I’m relieved. But it isn’t a hands-down […]
Robyn I. Stone, senior vice president of research and co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, participated in a panel discussion, “Let’s Look at Where We are at with Leadership Diversity from an Association Perspective,” at the 2023 Vision Centre: Leadership Development for Aging Services Symposium in Chicago on […]
President John F. Kennedy established Older Americans Month 60 years ago when a third of older Americans lived in poverty, and nearly half had no health insurance. As President Joe Biden reminded us in his 2023 Older Americans Month proclamation, we’ve lifted many older Americans out of poverty over the […]
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The launch of a new Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) “in a distressed community at the southeast corner of the District of Columbia” is an inspiration for Robyn Stone. Stone, senior vice president of research at LeadingAge and co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, wrote […]
Because “The field of aging is the best-kept secret in health care,” says LeadingAge’s Jenna Kellerman, director of workforce strategy & development, most people don’t know about the wide array of careers available in aging services, apart from the clinical roles. In her article, “How You Can Bring the Next […]
