Online Program

338205
2015 White House Conference on Aging & Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders


Monday, November 2, 2015 : 10:40 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Jeanette Takamura, MSW, PhD, School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York, NY

The 5th decennial White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) will be held in 2015, on the 50th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Older Americans Act and the 80th 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.

Learning Areas:

Administration, management, leadership
Diversity and culture
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe three leading issues examined through the anticipatory processes of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) Describe the level of participation of AAPI organizations as representative of the AAPI community in the pre-WHCOA activities and in the WHCOA Identify at least three issues of importance to the AAPI population that were not addressed by the WHCOA and potential avenues for their pursuit at the federal and state levels.

Keyword(s): Aging, Asian and Pacific Islanders

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the former US Assistant Secretary on Aging in the US DHHS and the former Director of the Executive Office on Aging for the State of Hawaii. I am currently the dean of the School of Social Work at Columbia University.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.