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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, that department announced on Wednesday the members to serve on the Alzheimer’s, Dementia and Related Disorders Advisory Committee. The twenty-eight members of this committee were appointed by Governor Josh Shapiro. This committee will support an ADRD Office within the Pennsylvania Department of Aging. This is also the first-time ever that this type of office will work through the Pennsylvania Department of Aging which is among the Aging Our Way, PA tactics. Aging Our Way, PA is a strategic plan of ten years which got designed to meet needs of Pennsylvanians that are older and make services better for their population that is growing rapidly. According to that same release from the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, here are the twenty-eight people
- Secretary Jason Kavulich, PA Department of Aging
- Secretary Dr. Debra Bogen, PA Department of Health
- Secretary Dr. Val Arkoosh, PA Department of Human Services
- Secretary Nancy Walker, PA Department of Labor & Industry
- Senator Wayne Langerholc Jr., Senate Aging & Youth Committee Republican Chairperson
- Senator Maria Collett, Senate Aging & Youth Committee Democratic Chairperson
- Representative Maureen Madden, House Aging & Older Adult Services Committee Democratic Chairperson
- Representative Steven Mentzer, House Aging & Older Adult Services Committee Republican Chairperson
- Melanie Titzel, Ph.D., Engagement Officer, LECOM Institute for Successful Aging; Pennsylvania Council on Aging member; Erie County
- Tom Snedden, Director of PACE, PA Department of Aging
- Victoria Bayle, Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Pennsylvania board member/living with Alzheimer’s, Erie County
- Amanda Neatrour, owner, Lewis Neatrour Group; Allegheny County
- Julieanne Steinbacher, Esq., CELA; Steinbacher, Goodall & Yurchak; Lycoming County
- Julia Wood, MOT, OTR/L, Director of Professional & Community Education, Lewy Body Dementia Association; Montgomery County
- Matthew Sharp, MSS, Advocacy Manager, The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration; Philadelphia
- Anneliese Perry, MS, NHA, CECM, Program Manager/State Coordinator, Jewish Healthcare Foundation/Dementia Friendly Pennsylvania; Allegheny County
- Krishnankutty (Krish) Sathian, MBBS, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology, Penn State Health; Dauphin County
- David Wolk, MD, Professor of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia
- Oscar Lopez, MD, Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh; Allegheny County
- Jennifer Haeussler-Barnhart, Administrator, Montgomery County Office of Aging Services (Area Agency on Aging)
- Jennifer Jordan, Vice President, Equity and Behavioral Health, The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
- Megan Barbour, Director, Advocacy and Government Affairs, PA Health Care Association
- Katie Noss, BSN, RN, Director of Clinical Operations, Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers
- Helen Schmid, MBA, Telespond Senior Services, Inc.; Lackawanna County
- Daniel Drake, CEO & President, Trinity Health Care; Chester County
- Jignesh Sheth MD, MPH, FACP, Senior Vice President/Chief Operations and Strategy Officer, The Wright Center for Community Health; Lackawanna County
- Todd Goldberg, MD, Chief of Geriatrics, Jefferson-Abington Hospital; Montgomery County
- Michael Galvan, Director of State Affairs, Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Pennsylvania