Jul 7, 2015 1 min read

White House Conference on Aging on July 13th - whitehouseconferenceonaging.gov #WHCOA

The White House Conference on Aging will be held on July 13th, 2015. This year, we, Americans, celebrate the 50th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Older Americans Act, in addition, the 80th anniversary of Social Security. The White House Conference on Aging is a celebration of these key programs as well as looking forward to the issues and challenges that face older Americans for the next decade.

Being healthcare practitioners, the Acupuncture and TCM community can participate in the larger discussions on aging in America. You have a unique perspective on how aging affects your patients and how Acupuncture helps them.

Getting Involved

Watch the event
The conference will be live streamed at

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live
Share your story
Share how the conference is important to you and your thoughts and insights on aging from a practitioners perspective.

You can share your thoughts here:

http://www.whitehouseconferenceonaging.gov/submissions/register.aspx
Interview an older adult
Interview and share the story of your older patients and how acupuncture has helped them.

Use the StoryCorps app to record and share your interviews.

https://storycorps.me/
Host a watch party
Gather a group of your colleges together and make an event out of it. Here’s a PDF that’s provided to guide discussions and posting to social media.

http://www.whitehouseconferenceonaging.gov/involved/docs/guide-WHCOA-Issues-Discussion.pdf
Participate in Q&A with the experts
Tweet your questions with the hashtag #WHCOA and follow the @WHAging Twitter account.

https://twitter.com/WHAging
Complete the sentence
Download and print out the PDF and finish the sentence, “Getting older is getting better because…” Send it out on Twitter using the hashtag #WHCOA.

http://www.whitehouseconferenceonaging.gov/involved/docs/sign-twitter-GettingOlder.pdf

Reaching Out

As a healthcare practitioner, you can also share experiences directly with the White House at their email address.

info@whaging.gov

As always, I love to hear from you. Feel free to drop me a line. You can reach me at mintotsai@jasminepm.com.

Minto Tsai
Founder