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:
Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN-BC, FNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN
Associate Professor; Geriatric Nursing Researcher
George Washington University, School of Nursing

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

Board Liaison: Margaret Moss

Staff Liaison: Justin Cowling

Previous Chairs: 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: 

• 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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