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A new pilot program is launching this fall at the Smithsonian. In collaboration with Art & Minds, the National Portrait Gallery will be hosting a 6-week program for adults with dementia and their caregivers. The program is entitled See Me at the Portrait Gallery. A team of museum educators and docents will be facilitating small group discussions about some of the museum’s most treasured works of art.

In 2015, only 42% of eligible seniors participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The Elderly Simplified Application Project (ESAP), which is currently operating in eight states, is a collection of policy and process changes that can streamline enrollment of low-income seniors into SNAP. Benefits Data Trust (BDT) and NCOA produced an advocate’s guide that educates state-based aging and anti-hunger advocates about ESAP and suggests ways they can engage their state agency leaders to create ESAPs.

Justice in Aging is offering a webinar on, Reverse Mortgage Servicing & Foreclosure: Emerging Issues, to outline issues facing reverse mortgage borrowers and offer strategies to address the challenges. Reverse mortgages help allow older homeowners to age in place, but recently there has been an uptick in reverse mortgage foreclosures due to property charge defaults and other issues. This problem can lead to the displacement of older adults from their homes. This webinar will discuss recent changes to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program.

ASTHO and CDC's Healthy Aging Program are hosting a webinar focusing on the Healthy Aging in Action: Advancing the National Prevention Strategy report that was produced by the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council (National Prevention Council). This strategy report identifies specific actions for healthy aging that are continuing to improve health and well-being in later life. The webinar will feature presentations on some of the findings and lessons learned from the report.

This is the second webinar in a series of two webinars being offered for Ombudsmen. Please join the Consumer Voice for a webinar series that will discuss the application of the LTCOP Rule in daily Ombudsman program advocacy and management. The first one was held on March 29th and discussed the "LTCOP Rule: Supporting Person-Centered Advocacy - Complaint Investigations and Abuse Reporting". This webinar will look at the "LTCOP Rule: Identifying and Addressing Individual Conflicts of Interest”.

Two webinars are being offered for Ombudsmen. Please join the Consumer Voice for a webinar series that will discuss the application of the LTCOP Rule in daily Ombudsman program advocacy and management. There will be two webinars that will share resources and training materials for Ombudsman program representatives on the topics of complaint investigations and abuse reporting and individual conflicts of interest.

This webinar will provide the opportunity to: learn more about the March Jobs Report and how it fits into longer term employment trends, hear about programs and research across the country addressing employment and disability, and listen to experts in the field.

Join the AARP Public Policy Institute to learn about an innovative nursing-led model of care that is being widely hailed as a success. Presenters include Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior vice president and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute and chief strategist for the Center to Champion Nursing in America, and Lauran Hardin, MSN, RN, CNL, senior director of Cross-Continuum Transformation at the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs.