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Falls Prevention Awareness Day is happening on September 23 this year. The National Council on Aging is hosting a webinar featuring new resources and tools for organizations to use in their falls prevention programs. NCOA in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Health, will present strategies, products, and activities.

The National Council for Independent Living is hosting Liberation to Leadership: The Role of CILs in Transforming Communities, a brand new national onsite training. The event will be held in Berkeley, California September 15-17, 2015. The cost for the event is $150 but it includes a tour of the Ed Roberts Campus at the University of California at Berkeley. Registration closes on August 25,2015.

Every generation can learn from those that came before and those that follow. In this spirit we launched a generational planning study to help share wisdom across the generations. In the third and final part of this three-part series, we will focus on the importance of planning for a long-term-care event. Currently only a third of adults plan on taking responsibility for their care as they age.

Participants in this web seminar will be able to:
• List the four ways to pay for long term care;

The conferece features two tracks: Operation & Practice and Policy & Strategy. The Operation & Practice track will cover the foundations of participant direction and FMS.

The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) is hosting a webinar to address the needs of Americans with disabilities that face food insecurity. A distinguished panel of experts will speak about the current status of food insecurity among this populations, the role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for people with disabilities, and offer recommendations for strengthening SNAP benefits.The release of the new FRAC Report, SNAP Matters for People with Disabilities will accompany this webinar. There will be closed-captioning on the webinar for the hearing impaired.

The Disability and Aging Collaborative is hosting a webinar on the findings from three recent studies on family caregiving. A recent study done by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP shows an update on the profile of family caregivers in the U.S. A study by the Community Living Policy Center provides the patterns of family caregiving over the past ten years and a study by the Easter Seals, with support from MassMutual Financial Group highlights Millennial and Generation X caregivers and individuals who have not had to assume this position.

Join more than 500 policymakers, researchers, clinicians, educators, and public health practitioners to learn how the social determinants of health impact healthy aging in the United States. This state-of-the-science meeting focuses on prevention to help Americans stay healthier longer and improve quality of life in later years. Summit Highlights:

In honor of Older Americans Month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching the first in a series of webinars with several key partners to help address digital literacy and broadband adoption issues affecting seniors. Presenters include representatives from the Departments of Education, and Housing and Urban Development (HUD); the National Telecommunications Information Administration, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and EveryoneOn.

An oversight hearing regarding the nation's aging and disabled communities will be held by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations. Witnesses will include Carolyn W. Colvin, Social Security Acting Commissioner, and Kathy Greenlee of the Administration for Community Living.

The National Center for Mobility Management (NCMM) is seeking community-based, multidisciplinary teams to participate in its six-month Healthcare Access Mobility Design Challenge. Eight teams will receive grants of up to $25,000 and one-on-one technical assistance to take potential solutions from concept to impact.