National Center to Reframe Aging Partners with Maine Council on Aging to Host Leadership Exchange on Ageism
The National Center to Reframe Aging — the leading organization for evidence-based communication strategies and tools to effectively frame aging issues — is partnering with the Maine Council on Aging to host a special cohort of the Leadership Exchange on Ageism (LEA), a program for leaders to enhance understanding of ageism and develop strategies to eliminate it.
This program will offer participants the opportunity to learn from each other, transform their thinking about aging, and connect to proven communication strategies designed to build support for policies and programs that support us all as we age.
“We know that a better understanding of aging benefits our entire society,” said Patricia D’Antonio, BSPharm, MS, MBA, BCGP, executive director of the National Center to Reframe Aging and vice president for policy and professional affairs at the Gerontological Society of America. “By pairing the proven strategies and expertise of the National Center to Reframe Aging with the Leadership Exchange on Ageism teams, we are equipping leaders with tools and insights they need to shift perceptions and advance policies that support us all as we age.”
LEA is an intensive, participatory, peer-learning leadership development experience for executive business, policy, research, and community leaders launched in Maine in 2021. More than 350 leaders from federal, state and municipal government, business, community, higher education, law enforcement, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors have graduated from the program and are taking action to eliminate ageism in their communities.
“While we are experiencing unprecedented new longevity, our collective negative thoughts about aging and older people keep us from realizing our full potential later in life,” said Jess Maurer, executive director of the Maine Council on Aging. “The Leadership Exchange on Ageism helps leaders understand how ageism is holding us back, and offers tools and motivation to disrupt it. We’re thrilled to partner with the National Center to Reframe Aging to bring this program to leaders across the country.”
This partnership is supported by The John A. Hartford Foundation.
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The National Center to Reframe Aging is dedicated to ending ageism by advancing a complete story about aging in America. The center is the trusted source for proven communication strategies and tools to effectively frame aging issues. It is the nation’s leading organization, cultivating an active community of individuals and organizations to spread awareness of unproductive attitudes towards aging and influence policies and programs that benefit all of us as we age. Led by the Gerontological Society of America, the National Center acts on behalf of and amplifies efforts of the ten Leaders of Aging Organizations. Support for the National Center comes from Archstone Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, RRF Foundation for Aging, and The SCAN Foundation.
The Maine Council on Aging is a broad, multi-sector network of more than 140 organizations, businesses, municipalities, and older Mainers working to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives in our homes and community settings.
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), founded in 1945, is the nation’s oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization focused on aging. It serves more than 6,000 members in over 50 countries. GSA’s vision, meaningful lives as we age, is supported by its mission to foster excellence, innovation, and collaboration to advance aging research, education, practice, and policy. GSA is home to the National Academy on an Aging Society (a nonpartisan public policy institute) and the National Center to Reframe Aging.