Expert Panel on Aging

The Expert Panel on Aging develops health policy recommendations to influence national and state level aging and long-term policies and programs. The panel promotes knowledge development and advances evidence-based innovations to improve health care and health care delivery for older adults.

Inaugural Year: 1998

Chair:
Helen W. Lach, PhD, RN, CNL, FGSA, FAAN
Associate Dean for Research, PhD Program Director
Saint Louis University, Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing

Vice Chair:
Sherry A. Greenberg, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FGSA, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN
Professor and Hess Endowed Chair in Nursing Education
Monmouth University, Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing

Board Liaison: Margaret Moss

Staff Liaison: Justin Cowling

Previous Chairs: Melissa Batchelor (2020-2022), Pamela Cacchione (2019-2020), Wanda Spurlock (2018-2019), Karen Moomaw Rose (2017-2018), Adriana Perez (2016-2017), Susan Reinhard (2005), Mary Ann Rosswurm (1998)

Publications: 

• Policy Dialogue: Advancing Policies to Support Family Caregivers (Hosted in November 2021)

  Hosted by the Expert Panel on Aging, this dialogue focused on the critical and growing role that family caregivers play in providing care to older adults. Experts examined the policies at the federal, state, and health system levels that support family caregivers and identified opportunities for nursing leadership to champion health equity and quality outcomes for patients as well as their caregivers.

• Practice Guidelines: International consensus-based policy recommendations to advance universal palliative care access (October 2021)
• Consensus Statement: Nursing's Roles in Ensuring Universal Palliative Care Access (October 2021)
• Position statement: Opioid Crisis through the Lens of Social Justice (September 2020)
• Position Statement: Disaster preparedness for older adults (January-February 2019) 
• Position Statement: Policies to support family caregivers (May-June 2018) 
• Policy Brief: Admit to observation status. (November 2016)
• Policy Brief: Registered nurse staffing requirements in nursing homes. (September 2016) 
• Policy Brief: Elder justice: Preventing and intervening in elder mistreatment. (September 2015)
• Policy Brief: Carpe diem: Nursing making inroads to improve mental health for elders. (March 2012)

Related News: 

• Academy Designates Sarah Szanton an Edge Runner for CAPABLE, an Aging in Place Program (January 8, 2018) 

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