Change AGEnts 3Thank you to everyone who attended the Change AGEnts initiative launch event at the Gerontological Society of America annual meeting last week in New Orleans!

Nearly 400 Change AGEnts – individuals who have been touched by a Hartford grant – joined in the evening’s activities to connect with each other and begin identifying ways to change health care practice to improve the health of older adults.

Our goal was to create an interactive, innovative, inspiring, interdisciplinary event focused on how we can all work together to change health care. Thanks to the incredible enthusiasm and energy in the room, we believe we succeeded.

Change AGEnts 1Please visit the photo gallery of the event, where you will see many Change AGEnts who reached across their disciplinary boundaries and identified potential practice change projects. Tag yourself, "like" the page, and if you log in to Twitter and search for #ChangeAGEnts365, you'll see the live feed from the event and what AGEnts were saying about the evening. And check back regularly to ChangeAGEnts365.org for more information, which we will also be sharing through additional blogs in December.

Through our blog, we’ll tell you some of the many suggestions we heard from Change AGEnts about what they need to become leaders in practice change. And we’ll tell you more about the Change AGEnts activities and offerings that will be rolling out for you to take advantage of.

Change AGEnts 2For those of you not able to attend, never fear, more events and opportunities for you to join in will be happening (we are Change AGEnts 365 days of the year, after all).

We want to thank GSA and the entire Change AGEnts leadership team for helping us launch the initiative. And a big thank you to the team of volunteer Change AGEnts who helped greet and welcome everyone to the event.

And, of course, thank you to all the Change AGEnts out there working every day to improve the health of older adults.