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July 17, 2015
Statement from Assistant
Secretary for Aging Kathy Greenlee on Senate passage of Older Americans Act
Reauthorization
Statement from Assistant Secretary
for Aging Kathy Greenlee on Senate passage of Older Americans Act
Reauthorization
We applaud the Senate for passing the Older
Americans Act and advancing it one major step toward reauthorization. This
critical legislation, which was signed into law 50 years ago this week, provides
high-quality, individualized services that improve the health, safety, and
well-being of nearly 12 million older adults and one million family caregivers.
It is key to enabling older adults to live their lives with dignity and respect
in the homes and communities they choose.
Earlier this week at the White House
Conference on Aging, we talked about the transformation of aging in America and
the engagement of all sectors of society in the benefits and promise of
longevity. Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act is an important step in
achieving the goals we set.
Key
Deliverables from the White House Conference on Aging
Empowering All Americans as We
Age
On July 13, 2015, the President hosted the
White House Conference on Aging, which focuses on the issues facing Americans as
they plan for retirement, care for older loved ones, and work to improve our
quality of life as we age. One of the most critical components of middle-class
life in this country is a secure and dignified retirement, and today the
President announced new steps we’re taking to ensure that Americans have the
tools they need to prepare for the future. These actions build on the
President’s announcement earlier this year of the Department of Labor’s proposed
rule requiring retirement advisers to put their clients’ best interest first,
before their own profits. [ READ MORE]
By Susannah Fox, CTO, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
You might be wondering why a Chief Technology
Officer would be part of a conference on aging. Isn’t tech a young person’s
game?
First of all, I love Alan Kay’s definition:
Technology is anything invented after you were born. [ READ MORE] | 
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