The Annual LeadingAge Awards have been honoring leaders, educators, innovators, and builders since the earliest days of the organization, when LeadingAge was known as the American Association of Homes for the Aging (AAHA).
The LeadingAge Award of Honor, the association’s highest honor, has been given to 75 distinguished leaders since 1963, which was only two years after AAHA’s founding. (During the organization’s first quarter-century, there were often years featuring multiple Award of Honor winners.) Each year’s recipients are traditionally honored at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting and EXPO. This year will be no different—join us in Chicago, IL, November 5-8, 2023.
The mission-driven, person-centered focus of LeadingAge member organizations is always demonstrated by the nominees and winners of the awards. For a new generation of aging-services leaders, as well as young people looking for careers that make a difference, the example these Award winners set shows the possibilities our field offers. Here are recent winners of the LeadingAge Award of Honor:
James Bernardo – 2022
Paul Winkler – 2021
Every Member of LeadingAge – 2020
Dan Lindh – 2019
Dan Reingold – 2018
Stephen Proctor – 2017
Jerry Brown – 2016
Larry Minnix – 2015
Kay Kallander – 2014
Barry Berman – 2013
Steve McAlily – 2012
Nancy Rockett Eldridge – 2011
Harvey M. Shankman – 2010
David B. Ferguson – 2009
Rev. Dr. Laverne Joseph – 2008
Eli Feldman – 2007
John Diffey – 2006
David Green – 2005