Join Us for the Second Annual Symposium on Healthy Senior Housing!

LeadingAge NY and Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. started an annual Symposium on Healthy Senior Housing in 2016 to promote an expansion of affordable senior housing, elevate innovative models for housing seniors, and generate support for “housing plus services” designed to keep elders healthy in their own homes as they age. There is an increasing understanding that the housing and health care fields are intimately connected and there is immense potential to use housing as a platform to improve health care outcomes, especially for low-income older adults. Now, more than ever, we must work together to move beyond established norms and conventions by connecting across seemingly disparate disciplines of housing, architecture, health care, and urban planning in order to respond to the needs of our growing senior population. To further this work, LeadingAge NY and Enterprise are convening a group of stakeholders and thought leaders in senior housing and long term care to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for an integrated model, aimed at appropriately caring for New York’s next generation of seniors.

This year’s speakers include:

• Nancy Rockett Eldridge, CEO of the National Well Home Network and a nationally recognized expert with 37 years of leadership experience in housing and health policy, with a focus on elderly, low-income populations;
• RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner and CEO of New York State Homes and Community Renewal;
• Mark L. Kissinger, Special Advisor to the Commissioner of Health, New York State Department of Health;
• John Cochran, Deputy Director, New York State Office for the Aging; and
• Providers of housing and health care who have developed innovative models of “housing plus services” and are trailblazers in their fields.

By the close of the symposium, participants will have engaged in a meaningful and thought-provoking exercise in determining how to bridge health, social services, and housing in the coming years; how to expand the supply of affordable senior housing; and how to build upon successful “housing plus services” models.

Registration and additional information may be found here. If you have any questions regarding the symposium, please contact Sara Neitzel at 518-867-8383 or by email at sneitzel@leadingageny.org. We look forward to seeing you there!