New geriatrics legislation in Senate highlights bipartisan collaboration aimed at better present, future for us all

The future we are working for at the AGS – a future where all older Americans have access to high-quality, person-centered care – begins by building the interprofessional workforce we all will need to make that future possible, and by ensuring that workforce can connect us to tools and supports to make healthy aging a reality. Many of us see that mission in action every day in our clinics and our classrooms – but what of the equally important but seemingly distant forums on Capital Hill, forums where much of what happens in our clinics and our classrooms ultimately receives the national support necessary to take shape? The legi slative and regulatory work of geriatrics health professionals may seem less native to Congress, but it is just as critical as our work at the bedside or in front of the blackboard, which is why the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) earlier this year offered a ringing endorsement of the bipartisan G eriatrics Workforce Improvement Act (S.
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