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The National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Office on Women's Health (OWH) are hosting a live Q&A session on women's health and aging to kick off National Women's Health Week. The event will feature experts who will discuss popular women's health topics, including menopause, sarcopenia, and cognitive health.  

The American Society on Aging is hosting a two-part webinar series on ageism in healthcare. Despite the highest healthcare spending years of American's lives happening after age 65, ageism is still prevalent in healthcare practices today. This can manifest in subtle ways, such as not speaking directly to older patients, or more significant ways such as assuming a treatment plan based solely on age. The webinar aims to address ageism in healthcare and teach healthcare providers and professionals how to make the system more age-friendly.

Applications are now open for the American Society on Aging’s third cohort of their ASA Rise Fellowship, a program designed to prepare diverse talent to become the next generation of aging leadership in the field of aging. The first segment of the ASA Rise Cohort consists of eleven weekly sessions focused on developing inclusive leadership skills. Fellows will be educated on various topics including unconscious bias, aging issues specific to communities of color, antiracism, and allyship.

Join the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) for an interactive workshop on the importance of understanding the impact dementia and related illness has on a person’s ability to communicate. This session will help reframe typical “problem behaviors” sometimes exhibited by individuals living with dementia as expressions of need and explore the many ways individuals with dementia commonly communicate their needs.  Participants will learn to:

1. Define the stages and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

The 2023 CMS Quality Conference is a virtual convention organized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The conference aims to improve healthcare quality, equity, and innovation, and will bring together experts in the healthcare space to develop and spread solutions to address America's most pervasive health system challenges. The event is expected to attract healthcare quality leaders and invites advocates, providers, researchers, and champions in health care quality to attend and collaborate on solutions.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be hosting their inaugural Health Equity Summit on June 7-8, 2023 and is now accepting proposals. Presentations should focus around the core principles for reducing health disparities found in the CMS Framework for Health Equity for 2022-2023.

A webinar on the proposal submission process will be held on Thursday, March 16, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET. 

Proposals are due on Friday, April 14, 2023. 

Join CMS for an upcoming webinar "From Data to Action: How CMS and it's Stakeholders Are Addressing Inequities in Healthcare". The discussion will include a deep dive into the new Health Equity Framework and how stakeholders are leveraging it for more equitable care.

 

The webinar will take place Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET.

March 9, 2023 is National Slam the Scam Day. As part of a campaign by the Social Security Administration the day is meant to bring awareness to the prevalence and pervasiveness of internet scams. The Social Security Administration will be sharing details and resources on scam prevention leading up to the day. 

Click here to learn more about scam prevention.

The Foundation for Social Connection has released Systems Of Cross-sector Integration and Action across the Lifespan (SOCIAL) Framework: The Work, Employment, and Labor (WEL) Sector, the third report in a series of sector-based social connection reports This report offers evidence-based solutions and policies to advance social connectedness and address social isolation and loneliness through the work, employment, and labor (WEL) sector.

Join the Gallaudet University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute for a Deafhood training. Learn the Dos and Don’ts of including Deaf and hard of hearing people in your meetings both in person and virtually. The webinar will cover strategies and tips to build your tool kit for effective communication in your organization and help ensure that everyone feels included. 

 

The webinar will take place Wednesday, March 1, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET