More than 70 people attended AHCJ’s Aging in the 21st Century workshop last weekend, where former HHS secretary Donna Shalala discussed the Health Policy proposals and former FDA commissioner David Kessler discussed the nation’s obesity epidemic.
AHCJ treasurer Ivan Oransky live-tweeted from the workshop, which featured panels about the health care workforce, aging in ethnic communities, brain research, elder abuse and more.
Shalala said she is confident that health care reform will pass and that consensus is within reach. She says the biggest issue remains how to pay for reform and bring down health care costs.
The Miami Herald‘s John Dorschner reports that “speaker after speaker laid out a grim scenario” for aging in the United States, with a smalller health care workforce available to care for a growing elderly population.
Presentations from the workshop will be available for members on the AHCJ Web site later this week. A slideshow from the event is now online.
