2015 White House Conference on Aging & Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

The 5^th decennial White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) will be held in 2015, on the 50^th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Older Americans Act and the 80^th anniversary of Social Security. The earliest WHCOA were most influential in developing the Aging Network and establishing programs and policy directions that are now accepted as central to the support available to older Americans.  This presentation will examine four of the leading issues:  (1) Health Justice; (2) Healthy Aging; (3) Long-Term Services & Supports; & (4) Retirement Security, as they pertain to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). The presentation will examine the levels of pre-conference and conference participation of AAPI organizations to the extent that such information is made public, the degree to which AAPI perspectives were registered, and the impact, if any, of such participation. Finally, the presentation will attempt to identify issues of importance to the AAPI population that were not addressed by the conference and potential avenues for their pursuit at the federal and state levels.