LeverAGE
LeverAGE is the latest podcast from the American Society on Aging (ASA), covering the politics of aging. Hear from policy experts, grassroots organizers and the ASA community as we push for stronger policies and better platforms for all of us as we age.
Episodes
25 episodes
Hill Day 2024: Supporting Indigenous Elders Access to Obesity Care Options
In the latest episode of the Leverage Podcast, we review the impactful events of Hill Day 2024. Joined by advocates from the National Indian Council on Aging (NICOA), the focus was to raise awareness about the unique needs of Indigenou...
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44:53
Engaging Older Adults as Climate Advocates: Barriers, Benefits and Solutions
Alan Gutterman recently launched the Older Person’s Rights Project to advance awareness of the challenges and opportunities inherent in our increased longevity. In this podcast, he speaks with Karl Pillemer, professor in the Department of Psych...
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34:30
Climate and Older Adults as Advocates—Linking Hope to Action
Alan Gutterman, a long-term partner and senior counsel in law firms, recently launched the Older Person’s Rights Project to advance awareness of the challenges and opportunities inherent in our increased longevity. In this podcast he speaks wit...
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32:02
The 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers & Call to Action
The Administration for Community Living (ACL) released the comprehensive 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers in September, with hundreds of actionable recommendations and tactics for federal and state agencies, communities, empl...
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14:27
Loneliness as a Public Policy Issue
Loneliness affects more than one-third of adults, and as we age, experiencing loneliness can increase our risk of adverse emotional and physical health outcomes. Programmatic interventions to decrease loneliness and isolation are growing, but w...
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12:01
Integrating Behavioral Health in Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports (MLTSS)
CMS guidance includes behavioral health services as a key component of fully integrated models of MLTSS. How do MLTSS programs structure integrated models and how should they? Hear from Alice Dembner, Community Catalyst, and Jennifer Raymond, A...
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20:50
The Older Americans Act from the Inside: A Conversation with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aging Edwin Walker
The Older Americans Act is the foundation of our aging network. In this episode of Leverage, we take a closer look at its history and promises for the future. Richard Browdie, Guest Editor of Winter 2021-22 Generations Journal: The Older Americ...
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15:06
Spotlight on ASA’s Policy Agenda
Peter Kaldes and Leanne Clark-Shirley talk with Sara Kessel and Justin Hong, two ASA interns from Tufts University who have been researching climate change policy. Then, Peter gives a quick update on ASA’s new legislative tracker, which members...
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23:05
How Biden’s Infrastructure Win Bridges the Digital Divide for Older Adults
President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal into law. It has historic investments in roads, bridges, and other physical infrastructure improvements. But this new signed legislation also focuses on one of ASA’s policy priorities, b...
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21:36
How American Rescue Plan Act Dollars Can Support Older Adults
When it comes to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, or ARPA, most people are familiar with the COVID-19 vaccination program, stimulus checks, and unemployment insurance provisions. But there are also significant resources to support older pe...
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26:14
The WISH Act, an Equity Perspective
The Well-Being Insurance for Seniors to be at Home (WISH) Act was introduced in early July by Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-Long Island, Queens) to create a new federal Long-Term Care Insurance Trust Fund that would pay for the “catastroph...
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27:38
An Infrastructure for Elder Justice
The Elder Justice Reauthorization and Modernization Act of 2021 was introduced in the House and Senate on August 9. This bill would channel funding to existing and new elder justice initiatives including long-term care workforce, Adult Protecti...
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26:59
State of Movement with End-of-Life Care: Medical Aid in Dying
10 states in the US have authorized Medical Aid in Dying legislation, and several more are have introduced it. On this episode of Leverage, Kim Callinan of Compassion + Choices and Dr. Chandana Banerjee of City of Hope talk with ASA’s Leanne Cl...
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44:40
A Call for a National Dementia Prevention Goal
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias impact more than 6 million families, with 15 million projected to be affected by 2050. Although we’re learning that it is possible to reduce the risk of dementia and slow the rate of cognitive decline, ...
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47:08
Improving Care for Older Patients
A large share of healthcare costs results from unplanned hospitalizations, many of which happen as a result of chronic diseases among older patients. But acute care doesn’t necessarily need to happen in the hospital. Innovative models are succe...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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37:50
Value-Based Care and Telehealth
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth and virtual care was growing, slowly. But since last March, telehealth use has skyrocketed as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) quickly expanded access to telehealth for...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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38:52
Prescription Drug Pricing
Prescription drug prices are at unprecedented levels. There is a huge human impact to not being able to afford medications: according to a new study by West Health, over 1.1 million people insured by Medicare could die over the next decade beca...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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32:09
The Healthcare Cost Crisis and California’s Master Plan for Aging
High healthcare costs, social isolation, loneliness, food insecurity, malnutrition and issues related to housing have impacted older people for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made these issues even worse. In this episode of LeverAGE, we...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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28:04
On Ageism in Politics and Around the Vaccine Rollout
ASA Public Policy Committee co-chairs Paul Downey and Amy Herr host this episode of LeverAGE, talking with guests Michael Adams, Rebecca Morgan and Joyce L. Walker about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and ageism in the political world.Hos...
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27:31
COVID-19 and Racial Injustice in Portland: Responding to Two Pandemics
Host and ASA CEO, Peter Kaldes, is joined on LeverAGE by Nkenge Harmon Johnson, the President and CEO of the Urban League of Portland, Oregon. The mission of Urban League of Portland is to empower African-...
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35:22
The Supreme Court: What's at Stake for Older Adults
In this episode of LeverAGE, host Peter Kaldes, President & CEO of ASA, is joined by Dr. Leanne Clark-Shirley, Vice President of Thought Leadership at ASA, and Michael Adams, CEO of SAGE and Chair of ASA's Board of Directors, to discuss the...
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26:49
Debate Prep: Panel of Pundits 2020
Host Peter Kaldes, President & CEO of ASA, welcomes Paula Basta, Director of the Illinois Department on Aging, to Leverage to revisit the 2020 Panel of Pundits. Presented on September 8, Panel of Pundits 2020: The ...
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Episode 4
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46:44
Plan Your Vote: Aging is on the Ballot
LeverAGE, the newest podcast from the American Society on Aging (ASA), covers the politics of aging. On Episode 3, ASA’s president and CEO Peter Kaldes chats with Public Policy Committee Co-Chairs Amy Herr and Paul Downey and ASA’...
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Episode 3
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33:48
Voting by Mail: A Tale of Two States
LeverAGE, the newest podcast from the American Society on Aging (ASA), covers the politics of aging. Episode 2 spotlights the experience of voting by mail in two states – Florida and Oklahoma. ASA’s President and CEO Peter Kaldes catches up wit...
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Episode 2
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1:10:51
Voting in America 55 Years After the Voting Rights Act – Featuring NAACP’s Hilary O. Shelton
LeverAGE, the newest podcast from the American Society on Aging (ASA), is about the politics of aging. This show will focus on politics, policy, and advocacy in aging. This inaugural episode is about voting and voter suppression and features Pe...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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