Moving Forward Conversation Recording: Advocating for Reform with Federal Leaders - Amplifying Voices Around Nursing Home & Long-Term Care
The Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition held a virtual conversation March 7, "Advocating for Reform with Federal Leaders: Amplifying Voices Around Nursing Home & Long-Term Care."
The conversation covered how we can effectively and collaboratively engage our nation’s leaders in an enduring commitment to improve our long-term care system. How can we help to make it essential and appealing for federal leaders to commit to building a sustainable long-term care system? How can we frame long-term supportive care as an urgent and emerging issue that has practical policy solutions? What can the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition and all of us do to collaborate toward that goal?
Speakers included:
- Robert “Bob” Blancato, Executive Director of the National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs, President of Matz, Blancato and Associates, the National Coordinator of the bipartisan 3000-member Elder Justice Coalition, and the National Coordinator of the Defeat Malnutrition Today coalition.
- Jennie Chin Hansen (serving on the Coalition's Person-Centered Care Committee) is a principal mover behind the 1997 Medicare and Medicaid PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care of the Elderly) focused on nursing home qualified persons who prefer community based living and care.
- Joanne Lynn (serving on the Coalition's Finance Committee) is a geriatrician and hospice physician now working to make it possible for older adults to live meaningfully and comfortably when we must live with serious disabilities.
- Alex Spanko, director of communications for the Center for Innovation, the non-profit parent of The Green House Project and Pioneer Network.
Watch the conversation recording.
Go to the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition website.
Learn more about JAHF's support of the Moving Forward Coalition.
