Aging and Health Policy
- Regional Age-Friendly Partners
Age-Friendly Hyattsville
Age-Friendly Montgomery County
Each of these mid-Atlantic Age-Friendly jurisdictions is a comprehensive and collective-action effort with the goal of ensuring all residents are active, connected, healthy, engaged and happy in their environment. They include policy and community engagement frameworks that involves every aspect of life, from transportation and housing to health and finances.
We are happy to convene and partner with each of these organizations, along with Georgetown's Health and Aging Program, for our annual Age-Friendly Ecosystem Summits.
- University Seminar Series
Age-Friendly Health Systems
Lecture by Dr. Terry Fulmer Co-hosted with the Center for Health Policy and Media EngagementClick to Watch
Seminar 1
Age-Friendly DC (Gail Kohn, Coordinator); Connected DMV Smart Region Movement (Mimi Yeh, The Greater Washington Board of Trade); Age-Friendly Health Systems (Alice Bonner, John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)); and Age-Friendly Arts & Creativity (Wendy Miller; Author, Sky Above Clouds).
Seminar 2
Integrating LTSS and Medical Care: Building Community-Anchored Models of Care for an Aging Society (Anne Montgomery, Director for Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), Altarum); See Me at the Smithsonian (Robin Marquis, Program and Community Outreach Coordinator). Videos hyperlinked above. (123 views as of June 1, 2020)
Seminar 3
Featured a summary of the Age-Friendly DC Long-term Care Workforce Development meeting held in January 2020 (Sifonobong Inyang, Intern with Age-Friendly DC and MPH student at GW School of Public Health) and a brief overview of the 4 priority areas that emerged from first two seminars.
AF Businesses, AF Health Systems, AF Arts & Creativity, AF Long-term care workforce.
Impact on Public Policy
Working with The Brookings Institute groups related to Aging and Health- Economic Mobility GW hosted the 2020 Age-Friendly DC Task Force Meeting
- Weekly Podcast
Hosted by Center Director Melissa Batchelor, this podcast, “This Is Getting Old - Moving Towards and Age-Friendly World”, isn’t necessarily about people “getting old” — it is more about all “this” stuff that isn’t ready for our aging population. Tune in weekly to learn about all of the different things we need to do to move towards an age-friendly world or check out the hundreds of recorded episodes on topics from age-friendly businesses to Alzheimer's disease; from how to care for your aging loved ones to social media use as a healthcare professional.
Listen or learn more on Melissabphd.com:
Or, listen to the hundreds of archived podcast episodes on any of the platforms below:
GW Nursing hosted a Palliative Nursing Summit convened in May 2017, by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. Leaders and representatives from 26 specialty nursing organizations will develop a collaborative nursing agenda and action plan focused on three aspects of primary palliative nursing including communication and advance care planning, coordination and transitions of care, and pain and symptom management. The summit was supported in part by a grant from the Milbank Foundation and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation. Contact [email protected] to inquire about access to recorded videos from the event.