FEDERAL NEWS

White House Push on Boosters, Treatments, and Air Quality to Prevent as Many COVID Deaths as Possible
Here is an article with more details about the meeting LeadingAge and a few other organizations attended with the White House COVID team on November 1st. As noted last night, the COVID team has asked LeadingAge and other organizations to work with them on promoting vaccines and boosters, use of treatments, and efforts to improve air quality. In kicking off the meeting, Dr. Ashish Jha, head of the COVID team, told the small group assembled that over the next five months (November through March) infectious disease experts estimate that 50,000 people in the country will die of COVID. One of every five of these individuals who die- 20% – will be nursing home residents. “All or most of these deaths are preventable with the proper use of vaccines, boosters and treatments,” Jha observed. “We can save ourselves and potentially prevent 50,000 deaths.” Nursing home and assisted living providers play an important role in encouraging the use of these measures and Dr. Jha asserted that the White House has a strong commitment to partnering with aging services providers to prevent this dire outcome.

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Friday Webinar
Join us this Friday for an update on what is going on pertaining to COVID, updates on the association front, and much more.

If you haven’t registered already, you can do so here. You can also see archived webinars and get handouts here.

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Tomorrow is Election Day
Election Day is tomorrow. LeadingAge is sharing turnkey resources with members that help to ensure all older adults and people living with disabilities have the necessary information to cast their votes. Share this easy-to-use Civic Action Center resource that identifies voters’ registration status, provides resources to register to vote, request a mail-in ballot, locate their polling place and also research local candidates.

Coronavirus Calls This Week. What do the midterm elections mean for aging services? What’s bringing voters out?
All calls are at 2:30 PM CT.Regardless of your political party, the midterm election, set for Tuesday, November 8, will do a lot to clarify how policy decisions will be made on Capitol Hill.  The entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate will be decided.

On Monday, November 7th, join us as we chat with Jonathan Voss, Partner at Lake Research Partners, a national public opinion and political strategy research firm. Jonathan will share insights from survey research on how voters are thinking about issues related to older people and aging services and discuss what the outcomes of the election might mean for the short and long term

Did resident engagement change during the pandemic? If so, how, and are the changes going to last? On Wednesday, November 9th, Teresa Scott, President and CEO of Penney Retirement Community in Green Cove Springs, Florida will be with us to talk about a unique model of resident engagement and how it helped Penney get through the pandemic.

If you haven’t registered for LeadingAge Update Calls, you can do so here. You can also find previous call recordings here. Note that to access recordings of the calls you need a LeadingAge password. Any staff member of any LeadingAge member organization can set up a password to access previous calls and other “members only” content.

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CDC Webinar on Enhanced Barrier Precautions
CDC will be hosting a webinar on Enhanced Barrier Precautions in Nursing Homes on November 15th at noon CT. Register for the webinar here. Discussion will include a detailed review of what EBP are, why EBP are recommended in nursing homes, and how to be successful with implementation. Presentations will be followed by conversation with the experts about frequently asked questions from the field. 

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