National Able Network Watch Party White House Conference On Aging

| Read Our Blog Read Our Blog Blog National Able Network ‘Watch Party’: White House Conference on Aging Jenna Holzberg July 14, 2015 Senior Services, Workforce 0 Yesterday, National Able Network’s Illinois Senior Services department held a watch celebration for this yr’s White House Conference on Aging. This conference is held as soon as each 10 years, with the last one held in 2005, and served as a possibility to highlight and advocate for the wants of seniors, their families and communities. During the convention watch get together, Illinois Senior Service workers and Senior Community Service Employment Program participants had the opportunity to take heed to and be taught from a number of experts within the area of aging. We also live-tweeted convention highlights in the course of the watch party and one of our tweets was favorited by the United States Secretary of Labor, Tom Perez! This year is the 50th anniversary of the Older Americans Act, which brought about Medicare and the Senior Community Service Em ployment Program (SCSEP). In earlier a long time, this convention helped to spur forward these applications and different aging insurance policies. The matters mentioned and presented throughout this 12 months’s conference covered retirement safety, healthy growing older, long-time period companies and resources, and elder justice. One major takeaway that I had from collaborating within the experience was seeing how entwined the workforce needs of older employees are with the various subjects lined through the convention. Older employees are within the workforce longer as a result of the truth that lots of them by no means had the luxurious to create retirement plans outdoors of their Social Security. Currently, one in three U.S. workers don't have entry to a retirement plan. This is an issue that may continue until adjustments are made to provide the best to all employees to plan for their retirement. During the convention, JoAnn Jenkins, CEO of AARP, requested all of us to “di srupt growing older” which is a name for us all to vary our nation’s cultural perception of growing older and empower individuals to age in the best way that suits them. Many older workers are caregivers, responsible for the lengthy-time period care of aged family and community members. Not solely do caregivers want a wage that properly compensates them for his or her work, but all employees need entry to family leave to allow them to correctly provide the care and assist to their sick or aged relations. Elder Abuse affects one in ten seniors, this statistic is even greater for seniors who have been victims of monetary exploitation. Knowledge is the key to preventing the financial exploitation of seniors and it's tremendously necessary that we share this info with seniors and their communities. The info shared in the course of the conference was invigorating and galvanizing! It helped remind me why advocating for the employment and workforce training needs of our seniors is fund amentally important to strengthening our communities. SCSEP empowers low-earnings seniors to disrupt aging by offering opportunities to study new abilities, remain an energetic of their communities, and turn out to be financially secure. To study extra about National Able Network’s Senior Services, please click here or name ! Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website Subscribe me to your mailing list Receive our newsletters, breaking information alerts, and more! Veterans Forward Orientation Careers by National Able Network: An Online Orientation for Nebraska Residents! Careers by National Able Network: An Online Orientation for Illinois Residents! View More…