Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Shana Gulko '00, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No.13   March 13, 2000

Expert on Aging and Public Policy to Speak at Ithaca College The Gerontology Institute Distinguished Speaker Series will continue on Thursday, March 16, with a talk by Bill Benson, founder of the Benson Consulting Group and former acting head of the Administration on Aging in the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. His lecture, "Public Policy and Aging in the New Century: Do We See the Greatest Challenges That Lie Ahead?," will start at 7:30 p.m. in the Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. Appointed to the Administration on Aging in 1993, Benson served that agency in a number of roles over the next five years. During his time there he managed the administration’s Medicare and Medicaid antifraud and abuse initiative, the Office of Government Affairs and Elder Rights, and various international initiatives. In 1998 he formed the Benson Consulting Group, an independent consulting practice specializing in aging and health care policy and program concerns. Before joining the Administration on Aging, Benson was a consultant whose clients included the National Association of State Ombudsman Programs, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the Consumers Union. At that time he also founded a coalition of consumer organizations to ensure that consumer protection and quality measures were included in health care reform. That organization continues today as the Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care. Benson also spent 8 years in various staff capacities in the U. S. Congress. Prior to that he served for 10 years in the California Department of Aging. In addition, he worked at the National Paralegal Institute on a three-year national model project to train laypersons to provide representation to older individuals with entitlement and legal problems. For more information contact the Gerontology Institute at 274-1965 or tbeckley@ithaca.edu.

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