Wednesday, October 25, 2023
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Eastern Time
Advancing the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers:
Updates and Activities
Speakers: Greg Link, Wendy Fox-Grage, Pamela Nadash, and Eileen Tell
ABOUT THE TOPIC:
The 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers was created to support family caregivers of all ages, from youth to grandparents, regardless of where they live or what caregiving looks like for them and their loved ones. The strategy was developed jointly by the advisory councils created by the RAISE Family Caregiving Act and the Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Act, with extensive input from the public, including family caregivers, the people they support and the organizations and providers that serve family caregivers. In 2023, the Councils were re-constituted with new members, and a charge of moving the Strategy forward.
The National Strategy is meant to evolve and be responsive to prevailing needs and issues arising from the caregiving landscape; the aim is to update it on a biennial basis. This presentation will describe the focus of current efforts to implement and update the Strategy: Greg Link will report on the range of federal actions that have been put into motion, while Wendy Fox-Grage will describe the role of the National Academy for State Health Policy in advancing and supporting state-level actions. Eileen Tell and Pamela Nadash will report on the public’s reactions to the National Strategy, as indicated by a request for Public Comments that was promulgated from October to December 2022.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Wendy Fox-Grage
Wendy Fox-Grage is a senior policy fellow on NASHP's Aging and Disability team, working on long-term services and supports, family caregiving, and palliative care. She joined NASHP in September 2019. Previously, she worked as a senior strategic policy advisor for the AARP Public Policy Institute for 15 years and as a program principal for the National Conference of State Legislatures for nearly 10 years. She started her career as a Congressional Fellow for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. She has a BS in human development and social policy from Northwestern University and Master’s degrees in both gerontology and public administration from the University of Southern California.
Greg T. Link
With more than 30 years of experience in aging and family caregiver support programs, Greg oversees ACL’s efforts to implement a range of federally-supported programs and initiatives. His office has responsibility for the National Family Caregiver Support Program, ACL’s dementia program portfolio, the Lifespan Respite Program and other initiatives including the Eldercare Locator, Community Care Corps and person-centered, trauma-informed supportive services for Holocaust survivors and other older adults and family caregivers with histories of trauma. Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Central Florida and a master’s degree in government from the Johns Hopkins University.
Pamela Nadash
Pamela Nadash, PhD, BPhil, is an Associate Professor in Gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston whose work centers on policies that enable people with needs for long term services and supports (LTSS) to receive needed supports. This includes looking cross-nationally at different countries’ long term care financing and service delivery systems, as well as studying variations in policies and practices among states in the US. Her history of working with state LTSS systems extends back to her seat on the management team of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation (1995-98); she has been deputy director of three Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Program Offices (as well as a team member for a fourth), supporting research and pilot programs for a variety of LTSS programs, as well as conducting associated research. More recently, she has been working to support the RAISE Family Caregiver Advisory. Council Her work has been published widely in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Eileen J. Tell
Eileen J. Tell is Principal and Owner of ET Consulting, a woman-owned consulting firm specializing in long term care and aging, and a Fellow of the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She engages in policy analysis, stakeholder and consumer research (qualitative and quantitative), program and materials development, consumer and professional education, literature review and other analytic work. Her clients have included the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, States of Minnesota, Washington and Illinois, National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), Long Term Care Partners, Truven Health Analytics, National Council on Aging (NCOA) Services, University of Massachusetts/ Boston’s McCormack Gerontology Center, Torchlight Eldercare, Intervene Rx, and LTCG.
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