Planning Ahead: Boomers & Market Expectations

Shaping Dementia Environments

English - June 11, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 6.55 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Today’s bonus episode continues the conversation Max had with Len Fishman from the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston. In this clip, Len speaks to concepts of aging in community and the reality approaching the baby boomer generation in the United States.

Len Fishman is a nationally recognized leader in the field of aging policy. He directs the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston’s John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies. For 12 years he served as CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife, New England’s largest nonprofit provider of senior housing and health care. Prior to joining Hebrew SeniorLife, Fishman was president and CEO of LeadingAge, a coalition of 6,000 non-profit aging services organizations, in Washington, D.C. He served as commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services under Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Before that, he was a health care lawyer in NJ and PA.

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