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1. Southwest Offers Opportunities for 10 Mid-Career Women to Attend the Leadership Institute Primary Education Topic: Leadership in Aging For the past eight years, Southwest Airlines generously has provided air tickets to a number of attendees at the Aging in America Conference. This year, they allocated a large portion of their gift to people attending the ASA Leadership Institute at the Conference. They were awarded tickets based on answers to essay questions posed by ASA. Cick here to learn more about the 2015 Leadership Institute participants. For the past eight years, Southwest Airlines generously has provided air tickets to a number of attendees at the Aging in America Conference. This year, they...
2. Making Healthcare Decisions for Me, Part 1 Nancy E. Lundebjerg, MPA Chief Executive Officer American Geriatrics Society Health in Aging Foundation Have you ever imagined a time when you are unable to make decisions for yourself? Who knows how you would make decisions? What information would you want? What do you think about life-prolonging treatments? Who knows how you feel about dying? Who knows you? Have you looked at that moment through the eyes of family who may have no—or every—legal authority to make decisions for you? Have you thought about the range of decisions that might need to be made for you—each decision likely leading to another...
3. National Nurses Week 2015: Celebrating Profiles of Geriatrics in Nursing—Phyllis J. Atkinson Phyllis J. Atkinson, RN, MS, GNP-BC, WCC Gerontological Nurse Practitioner The field of geriatrics relies on so many different healthcare professionals to provide expert, high-quality, patient-centered care for older adults. In honor of National Nurses Week 2015 (May 6-12), we’re celebrating the commitment of nurses committed to elder care by helping them share their stories in their own words. Here’s what Phyllis J. Atkinson had to say about her career as a gerontological nurse practitioner. Phyllis Atkinson remembers, vividly, the day she started rethinking her career in nursing. A critical care nurse, Atkinson was working at a small hospital...
4. Medicare at 50: Special Event on June 15 in Washington DC Primary Education Topic: Policy and Advocacy Other Education Topics: Healthcare & Aging Leadership in Aging Legal & Ethical Issues June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Medicare. Since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law in 1965, Medicare has opened doors to healthcare and increased economic security for hundreds of millions of older adults, people with disabilities, and their families. In celebration of this milestone, the American Society on Aging (ASA) is devoting the Summer 2015 issue of its quarterly journal, Generations, to “Medicare at 50 Years.” June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Medicare. Since...
5. The PERS industry must do a better job of serving seniors <!-- google_ad_section_start -->These are tech transition times for everyone – including seniors and their devices. In case you didn’t see it, the Pew numbers about smartphone use are out – 27{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} of the 65+ have smartphones, up from 19{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} last year. Given the date of that data (from last fall), let’s just assume that this number is actually lower than today's reality. So why should a PERS reseller or manufacturer care? First because carriers don’t want to sell feature/clamshell phones any more. They make it difficult to even find them. They are selling smartphones to people who don’t want or...