(L to R, front row): Margaret Chin, Donna Corrado,

Judy Zangwill, Jimmy Van Bramer, Lindsay

Goldman; (L to R, back row): Catherine Nolan,

Richard Buery, Chris Widelo, Allison Nickerson

Dear Friends,

At Age­friendly NYC we’ve had a very eventful summer and start of fall! On July19th, New York City’s new 2017 Commitments for an Age­friendly NYC werereleased at Sunnyside Community Services in Queens.

Congratulations to Deputy MayorRichard Buery, CommissionerDonna Corrado, PhD, and theteam at the Department for theAging (DFTA) for reconvening thecity agencies for the first time since2009 and producing such aremarkable set of programmatic,legislative, and built environmentinterventions to improve the qualityof life for older New Yorkers.

Here at the Academy, wewelcomed our new presidentJudith A. Salerno, MD, MS. We arethrilled that in addition to her otherextensive credentials, she is ageriatrician. A physician executiveand one of the nation’s pre­eminent leaders in health andhealth care, Dr. Salerno mostrecently served as president and

chief executive officer of Susan G. Komen, the world’s largest breast cancerorganization. She also served as the Leonard D. Schaeffer executive officer of theNational Academy of Sciences (formerly the Institute of Medicine), deputy directorof the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, andSubscribe to our email list

associate chief of staff at the VA Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Salernoparticipated in her first Age­friendly Commission meeting on September 27th.

Sadly, we also lost Cyril Brosnan, an extraordinary #agechamp and public healthactivist this summer. Brosnan began volunteering as an advisor to Age­friendlyNYC in his eighties and subsequently joined Manhattan Borough President andAge­friendly Commission Member, Gale Brewer’s, Senior Advisory Board. In2013, the Academy honored Cyril with an award for Outstanding Service to theAcademy. We will miss Cyril’s wise counsel, humor, and joy in life.

Warmly,

Lindsay Goldman, LMSW Director, Healthy Aging The New York Academy of Medicine

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AF­NYC NewsNew in the Neighborhood

In early August, we hosted a large, high­level delegation from Ohio working onAge­friendly Columbus. With Stefani Zinerman, a true #agechamp, from CouncilMember Cornegy’s office, we arranged a tour of Bed­Stuy, Brooklyn, one of thethree original age­friendly neighborhoods. Throughout the course of one veryrainy day, we met an incredible group of Age­friendly Bed­Stuy Ambassadors,visited an age­friendly optometrist, experienced the Brooklyn inter­library virtualbowling league, and celebrated the birthdays of residents of the Quincy SeniorResidences with some line dancing.

Age­friendly New York City Commission at Work

On September 11, the Age­friendly Primary Care Working Group and HealthfirstSubscribe to our email list

co­hosted Transforming Care for Older Adults, a symposium highlighting healthcare professionals and institutions that have adopted age­friendly practices andhave taken steps to address the broader determinants of health. Dr. Salernowelcomed nearly 200 people to the Academy­based symposium, includingphysicians, pharmacists, nurses, and social workers. Continuing MedicalEducation credits were provided by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.Rosanne Leipzig, MD, chair of the Academy’s new Fellows Section on HealthyAging, and Susan Beane, MD, medical director of Healthfirst, served as co­directors of the conference, and Department for the Aging Commissioner Corradodelivered remarks on the City’s efforts to support the health and wellbeing of olderadults.

Dr. Leipzig also wrote about the critical importance of appropriate care for olderadults in her blog post, “80 is not the 50: Getting Health Care Right” on ourUrban Health Matters blog.

Age­friendly Partner Spotlight

Harlem Advocates for Seniors (HAS) began in 2011 as a grassroots coalition ofolder people in Harlem working to address the issues and concerns of olderHarlemites and to advocate for Harlem senior centers. An early supporter of Age­friendly NYC, HAS Chairperson, William Hamer, participated in the FirstInternational Conference on Age­friendly Cities in Dublin, Ireland. The Age­friendly team recently caught up with William, and were thrilled to learn that afterreceiving training from the Academy on age­friendly community planning,organizing, and advocacy in 2014, Harlem Advocates for Seniors, Inc., officiallybecame a 501c3 in 2016. They published their first newsletter this past summerand are now working on a strategy to implement the Harlem Age­friendly

Neighborhood Action Plan and to mobilize their constituents around some of the2017 Age­friendly Commitments for a City for All Ages.

Thank you, William!

Age­friendly Seen and Heard

This month’s age­friendly shout out goes to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commercefor focusing their 2017 Annual Nonprofit Summit on “The Business of OlderAdults” on September 19. Age­friendly NYC was honored to sit on a panelmoderated by Sharon Greenberger, president of the YMCA of Greater New York, that also included Council Member Mark Treyger and Dennis Anderson, PhD,chairperson of St. Francis College’s Management and IT Departments.

@BrooklynChamber is a #agechamp!

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