Conference Program

MONDAY, MARCH 20
Business & Leadership
MO119 Innovative Community Responses
to LGBTQ Aging
12:30 PM | Columbian (West Tower, Bronze Level)
Despite their increased experiences of discrimination, the
voices and faces of LGBT older adults are notably absent from
post-marriage public dialogue and awareness-building
campaigns to ban discriminatory practices in employment,
housing and public accommodations. In this session, attendees
will learn about local and national models for centering the
voices of LGBTQ older adults to identify service and policy
gaps and advocacy opportunities.
Presenters: Jacqueline Boyd, Owner, The Care Plan; Kim Hunt, MPP,
Executive Director, Pride Action Tank; Serena Worthington, MAAT,
Director of National Field Initiatives, Services and Advocacy for
GLBT Elders (SAGE).
MO121 Inspiring Innovation to the 50+ Consumer
12:30 PM | Roosevelt 1 (East Tower, Bronze Level)
Inspiring innovation begins and ends with your consumer. Join
GfK and the AARP as they share some recent innovation inspirations
derived from GfK Consumer Life/Roper Reports. We’ll walk
through some of the inspirations, discuss the trends behind them
and learn how these consumer-driven inspirations are the
foundation for the AARP’s market-oriented innovation success.
Presenters: Andrew Gorman, Senior Advisor, Technology Programs
at AARP; Andreina Rangel, MBA, Senior Strategic Advisor, Insights
and Innovation, 50+ Research & Insights, AARP Public Policy
Institute; Kathy Sheehan, MBA, Executive Vice President, GfK
Consumer Trends/Roper Reports.
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MO123 Meet the Grantmakers
12:30 PM | Randolph 3 (East Tower, Bronze Level)
This session will give attendees an opportunity to learn about
the grantmaking process directly from those who make the
grant decisions. Presenters will describe the different types of
grantmaking foundations, how to approach and talk to potential
funders, and trends among foundations.
Presenters: Therese Ellery, Senior Program Officer, Aging Program,
Rose Community Foundation; Jolene Fassbinder, MSG, MACM,
Program Officer, Archstone Foundation; Michael Marcus, MSW,
Principal, Consultants for Community Resources; Aaron Merki,
Program Officer, Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation; Mary
O’Donnell, MA, Senior Program Officer, The Retirement Research
Foundation.
MO125 Why Nonprofits Should Care
About Earned Income
12:30 PM | Toronto (West Tower, Gold Level)
Every organization has expertise, a service, a product or
intellectual property that can be converted into an earned
income stream. The challenge is we can’t see this when we are
focused on the day-to-day operations of our programs. Learn
how the Patterson Foundation successfully developed and
implemented earned income offerings with nonprofit organizations
and how you can do it too.
Presenters: Larry Clark, Managing Partner, No Margin No Mission;
Debra Jacobs, President & CEO, The Patterson Foundation; Michael
Oxman, MS, Managing Partner, No Margin No Mission.
Clinical Care & Transitions
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MO127 Best Practices for Integrating Geriatrics
Into Primary Care: Working With
CBOs and the Aging Network
12:30 PM | Regency C (West Tower, Gold Level)
Members of five Midwestern Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement
Programs will discuss key features of their projects, which
all have the goal to educate the healthcare workforce about
patient and family-centered care for older adults and to integrate
geriatrics into primary care. Attendees will learn tips and
best practices for enhancing geriatric education and effectively
integrating geriatrics into primary care.
Presenters: Stacy Barnes, PhD, MGS, Director, Wisconsin Geriatric
Education, Marquette University; Marla Berg-Weger, PhD, LCSW,
Professor, Executive Director, Geriatric Education Center, Saint Louis
University School of Social Work; Erin Emery-Tiburcio, PhD, ABPP,
Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences; Robyn
Golden, MA, LCSW, Director of Health and Aging; both of Rush
University Medical Center; Valerie Gruss, PhD, APN, CNP-BC,
Principal Investigator/Project Director; Memoona Hasnain, MD,
MHPE, PhD, Director, Patient-Centered Medicine Scholars Program;
both of University of Illinois at Chicago; Jason Molony, AM, Project
Manager, University of Chicago Medicine.
Diversity & Cultures of Aging
MO129 Chicago-Shanghai: Learning From
Each Other as Our Populations Age
12:30 PM | New Orleans (West Tower, Gold Level)
12:30–2:00 PM
Since 2014, Chicago Sister Cities International Chicago-Shanghai
Social Service Exchange Program has organized yearly
exchanges between these two vibrant cities. Members of the
2015 Chicago delegation will share lessons learned from this
municipality of 24M people, 2.7M age 65+. We’ll show pictures
of housing and social service programs, address the impact of
the One Child Policy and Central Government Planning, and
reflect on the benefits of international idea exchanges.
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