LeadingAge’s Annual Meeting Begins October 30 in Indianapolis

LeadingAge, the trade association that represents nonprofit providers of senior services, begins its annual meeting at the end of October.  This year’s theme is “Be the Difference,” a call for changing the conversation about aging.  I won’t be able to attend this year and I’m sorry that is true, as I am always impressed with the line-up of topics and the window the conference provides for academics into industry perspectives on common concerns.  For example, this year’s line up of workshops and topics includes:

• General sessions featuring Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Charles Duhigg on the “The Science of Productivity,” 2013 MacArthur Fellow and psychologist Angela Duckworth on the the importance of grit and perservance for successful leadership, and famed neurosurgeon and speaker Sanjay Gupta on “Medicine and the Media.” 
• Hundreds of sessions, organized by “interest groups”:
  

  Board of Directors/Trustees

  Facilities Management 

  Home and Community Based Services

  Affordable Housing

  Workforce Issues

  Philanthropy