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May 15, 2019 | Keri Lipperini, Director, Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs
Older Americans have been creating inventions and works of art since our country’s inception. Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal lens at 78. Actress Rita Moreno has had a career spanning seven decades and currently stars in a Netflix series at 87. Grandma Moses started painting at 76. Every day…
May 7, 2019 | Edwin Walker, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aging
ACL believes that when older adults and communities stay connected, everyone wins. That’s why Connect is the first step in our three-part theme for Older Americans Month (OAM) 2019: Connect, Create, Contribute. Celebrated each May, OAM provides opportunities for people of all ages to connect and…
May 1, 2019 | Lance Robertson, Former Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging
Every day, all around us, older adults make a positive impact in our communities. As employees, volunteers, mentors, and advocates, they are an integral part of America’s social fabric. Their experience and insights enrich and strengthen our neighborhoods, workplaces, and families.
That’s why ACL…
March 19, 2019 | Keri Lipperini, MPA, Director, Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs
When you give your body the nutrients it needs, you take a key step to staying healthy, active, and independent. Good nutrition not only helps you feel better but can also help ward off chronic disease and help you recover faster from acute illness.
On the other hand, inadequate nutrition…
March 15, 2019 | ACL Staff
HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan and ACL Administrator Lance Robertson arrived at the Walter Reed Community and Senior Center in Arlington, VA just before lunch time, and the center was full of activity.
Top: Two older adults play pool at the Walter Reed Center. Middle: HHS Deputy Secretary…
March 6, 2019 | Julie Hocker, Former Commissioner, Administration on Disabilities
At ACL, we believe that people of all ages, with and without disabilities should be able to live, grow, learn, and work side by side. Community living makes all of us, and our shared future, stronger. Our mission is to make it possible for all people.
To that end, we administer programs that…
February 19, 2019 | Lance Robertson, Former Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging
Today, ACL posted new data on the Long-Term Care Ombudsman program’s impact in fiscal year 2017. Looking through the data, I am struck by both the scope and the impact of the work that ombudsmen do every day.
As the Ombudsman program enters its 40th year as a mandatory program of the Older…
January 29, 2019 | The Tennessee Developmental Disabilities Network
Left to right: Bruce Keisling of the Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities, Elise McMillan of Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Lance Robertson of the Administration for Community Living, Wanda Willis of the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities and…
January 9, 2019 |
Left to Right: VADM Jerome Adams, U.S. Surgeon General; Gilbert Thompson, ACL Program Analyst and CFC Manager: Mary Lazare, ACL Principal Deputy Administrator; and Lance Robertson, ACL Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging
On Monday, ACL closed out the 2018 Combined Federal…
December 19, 2018 | ACL Staff
Children and the Weinberg Child Development Center, including Danny (far left), sit around a table as staff speak to HHS leaders.
When Megan Scully's four month old son, Danny, was diagnosed with a developmental disability resulting from genetic brain lesions, two of the first questions she…