The Impact of Senior Centers and Geriatric Healthcare Policy

With the aging of the baby-boomer generation, the impact of senior centers on local communities is becoming increasingly significant to national, state, and local policy-makers, practitioners, and community and nonprofit directors. All of these stakeholders are vital to encouraging leadership, awareness, and support of aging-related and health-promotion issues. Anticipated increases in Delaware’s elderly population over the next several decades pose challenges to the state’s lawmakers, healthcare policy researchers, and senior center directors in particular