EP02: Health and Aging Policy Fellow Experience

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The goal of the Health and Aging Policy Fellowship program is to help professionals in the aging space gain the skills and experiences they need to impact policy to improve the quality of life and quality of care delivered to older Americans. In this week's episode, Melissa shares her Health and Aging Policy Fellow experience.</span></p> <p><strong>Part One of ‘Health and Aging Policy Fellow Experience’</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Health and Aging Policy Fellow Experience is a program that is sponsored by the John A. Hartford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies. Anyone who is interested in health care and works in aging is eligible to apply to this program. It is highly competitive, and there are a series of information webinars/ phone calls you can attend prior to submitting your application. You would start by looking at the</span> <a href= "https://www.healthandagingpolicy.org/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Health and Aging Policy Fellowship (HAPF) website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The HAPF website gives you the key dates and when the information webinars/ phone calls are held. That’s a great way to get a little bit more information about the program. For the application process, you would decide if you wanted to do the residential or non-residential track. And if you wanted to do a non-residential track, you would propose to do a project, with a particular organization or agency within the executive branch, judicial branch, a private foundation or an organization that matches your area of expertise and what</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">you want to gain from the experience.</span></p> <p><strong><em>“Geriatric Workforce Improvement Act is meant to help prepare our workforce within the USA to take care of older adults.” — Melissa (05:15-05:36)</em></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many of the residential fellows will have some type of congressional</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exp