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Selenium .............................................. 38A, 38B 

National Toxicology Program .............. National Institute of Carbon Environmental Health Sciences.Carbon tetrachloride ............................ 8B 

1,1-dichloroethene ............................... 18A, 18B 

Di-n-butyl phthalate ............................. 21A 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration on Aging 

2005 White House Conference on 

Aging 

AGENCY: Administration on Aging, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting and final 

Annotated Agenda. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 10(a) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act as 

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice 

is hereby given of the 2005 White House 

Conference on Aging (WHCoA) meeting 

in December 2005 and the final 

Annotated Agenda for the 2005 

WHCoA. The Policy Committee 

approved this final Annotated Agenda 

during a meeting held by conference 

call on November 3, 2005. The 

Annotated Agenda covers six broad 

areas that reflect major issues facing 

older individuals now and for the next 

10 years. 

The 2005 WHCoA will be open to the 

public. Individuals who wish to attend 

should call or email the contact person 

listed below in advance of the meeting 

and inform her of the day they wish to 

attend; since space for the public is 

limited, attendance will be on a first 

come first-served basis. Individuals who 

need special assistance, such as sign 

language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodations, should 

inform the contact person of the type of 

assistance that is desired. 

DATES: The 2005 White House 

Conference on Aging will take place 

from Sunday, December 11, 2005 to 

Wednesday, December 14, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: The 2005 White House 

Conference on Aging will be held at the 

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 

Woodley Road, NW., Washington, DC 

20008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rada Spencer at (301) 443–2496, or email at Rada.Spencer@whcoa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Older Americans Act 

Amendments of 2000 (Pub. L. 106–501, 

November 2000), the President will 

convene the White House Conference on 

Aging (WHCoA) not later than 

December 31, 2005. Specifically, the 

statute requires that the WHCoA shall 

gather individuals representing the 

spectrum of thought and experience in 

the field of aging to develop not more 

than 50 recommendations to guide the 

President, Congress, and Federal 

agencies in serving older individuals. 

The 2005 WHCoA will be held at the 

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in 

Washington, DC from Sunday, 

December 11, 2005 to Wednesday, 

December 14, 2005. During its open 

meeting on October 1, 2004, the Policy 

Committee approved a proposed broad 

agenda, with the knowledge that work 

would continue on the Annotated 

Agenda. The broad agenda focused on 

six areas: Planning for the Future, 

Employment, Our Community, Health 

and Long-Term Living, Social 

Engagement, and Marketplace, and it 

was placed on the WHCoA Web site at 

http://www.whcoa.gov for public 

comment. The Policy Committee 

received comments from testimony and 

reports submitted from over 400 

Listening Sessions, Solutions Forums, 

Mini-Conferences, and Independent 

Aging Agenda Events held and attended 

by approximately 130,000 individuals, 

as well as from unsolicited public 

comments to refine the proposed 

Annotated Agenda. Section 202 (b)(1) of 

the statute requires that the agenda for 

the WHCoA shall be published in the 

Federal Register not later than 30 days 

after the agenda is approved by the 

Policy Committee. The Policy 

Committee approved the final 

Annotated Agenda, dated November 3, 

2005, during a meeting held by 

conference call on November 3, 2005. 

The six broad areas have been refined to 

read: (1) Planning Along the Lifespan, 

(2) The Workplace of the Future, (3) Our 

Community, (4) Health and Long-Term 

Living, (5) Civic Engagement and Social 

Engagement and (6) Technology and 

Innovation in an Emerging Senior/ 

Boomer Marketplace. The entire text of 

the final Annotated Agenda is published 

as an Appendix to this notice. 

Dated: November 23, 2005. 

Edwin L. Walker, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Programs. 

Appendix 1—2005 White House 

Conference on Aging Annotated 

Agenda** Final—November 3, 2005 

I. Planning Along the Lifespan 

Social Security, pensions, savings, 

and wages each serve an important role 

in ensuring financial security in 

retirement. A cornerstone of achieving 

financial security in retirement is 

planning throughout a lifetime. Effective 

savings incentives and financial 

education are essential planning tools. 

Starting to save for retirement as early 

as possible ensures the miracle of 

compound interest, and provides 

optimum leverage. However, 

accumulating savings by itself does not 

guarantee a secure retirement. Managing 

those assets through longer and longer 

lifespans is also a key component. 

Americans must plan and prepare for 

the risk of having assets depleted 

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because of a long term care episode or 

other financial crisis. Moreover, retirees 

must guard against becoming victims of 

financial fraud and exploitation. 

Enhanced financial literacy will help 

enable Americans to guard against risks 

and plan appropriately to achieve 

financial security in retirement. 

A. Economic Incentives To Increase 

Retirement Savings 

1. Individual savings; employer-based 

pension programs 

B. Social Security Programs Now and 

for the Future 

1. Principles to protect and strengthen 

Social Security 

C. Protection from Catastrophic Loss 

1. Long term care expenses, and ways to 

assist Baby Boomers and families in 

understanding the need to finance 

long-term care, through insurance and 

other options 

2. Preventing financial fraud, abuse and 

exploitation: an integral part of elder 

and Boomer financial security 

D. Financial Literacy Throughout the 

Life Cycle 

1. Financial literacy to assist Americans 

in learning to start saving early and to 

manage assets to last through longer 

and longer retirements 

II. The Workplace of the Future 

For many decades, there has been a 

younger workforce on the heels of those 

planning to retire. With declining 

birthrates those demographics will 

change dramatically and will have a 

tremendous impact on the workplace of 

the future. In addition, Americans are 

living longer which means they will 

need more assets for longer retirements 

or will need to work longer so that 

retirement assets last a lifetime. These 

two factors mean the workforce of the 

future will have to be thought about 

differently. Because the workforce is 

shrinking, older workers will be 

valuable members of the job bank of the 

future and, older workers will need the 

income that working longer will provide 

in order to fund their retirements. To 

ensure that employers have the 

workforce they need and to provide 

workers with opportunities to stay in 

the workforce, incentives will be needed 

to encourage employers to retain older 

workers and to encourage workers to 

stay in the workforce. Phased retirement 

offered ad hoc to a few employees today 

must be encouraged for the benefit of 

the employer and employee. Strategies 

for overcoming current unintended 

barriers to reaching these goals will be 

an important aspect of this Agenda item. 

Assistive technologies are another 

important component of helping 

workers remain in the workforce. 

A. Opportunities for Older Workers 

1. Employer incentives for retaining 

older workers and current 

disincentives that prevent employers 

from retaining older workers 

2. Worker incentives to remain in the 

workforce and current disincentives 

to working longer 

3. Phased retirement as an opportunity 

for the employee who wants to retire 

gradually and for the employer who 

wants to retain older workers 

4. Assistive technology to help workers 

remain in the workforce 

5. Strategies to prevent ageism/age 

discrimination from affecting 

opportunities for older workers 

III. Our Community 

Safety, independence, access to a 

social network, and support by family 

and informal caregivers, as needed, are 

important components of a livable 

community and ‘‘aging in place’’ for 

older Americans. Aging in place means 

being able to grow older in the 

community of one’s choosing with 

continued access to needed social and 

health support services. Many Baby 

Boomer parents left urban residences 

after World War II for suburban homes 

and now face living in an area where 

services are less accessible, especially to 

those who no longer drive. Some 

possible solutions include better 

coordination between public health, 

transportation, and aging networks, 

better information management systems, 

and helping older Americans drive 

safely longer, and providing additional 

transportation options for those who no 

longer can or wish to drive. Longer term 

solutions include building higher 

density neighborhoods which allow safe 

and convenient pedestrian access to 

services, better public transportation, 

and other transportation options. 

Additionally, resources and information 

must be readily obtainable especially 

during and after emergencies or 

disasters. Emergency preparedness and 

response must be given greater 

emphasis especially as it relates to those 

older individuals who face mobility 

challenges. Improved information 

management systems and coordination 

between health, social service, law 

enforcement, and other networks are 

especially critical in times of 

emergencies or disasters. 

A. Coordinated Social and Health 

Services That Give the Elderly the 

Maximum Opportunity To Age in Place 

1. Availability of community referral 

resources 

2. Configuration of Senior Centers to 

appeal to the next generation of senior 

citizens 

3. Coordination between health and 

aging networks 

4. Accommodation of the differences 

between the Baby Boomer aging 

population and previous generations 

of the elderly 

5. Emergency/disaster preparedness and 

response as it relates to older persons 

B. Promote Support for Both Family and 

Informal Caregivers That Enables 

Adequate Quality and Supply of 

Services 

1. Caregiver support: training, respite, 

information, referral, and needs 

assessment for family caregivers. 

Training and financial support for 

paid caregivers 

C. Livable Communities That Enable the 

Elderly To Age in Place 

1. Senior-friendly community and 

residential design 

2. Protection from neglect and physical 

abuse 

3. Senior-friendly roads designed to 

keep older drivers on the road, safely 

4. Housing affordability and availability 

5. Alternative modes of transportation 

6. Expanded use of public 

transportation 

IV. Health and Long Term Living 

Americans are living longer. That ever 

increasing life span, combined with the 

significant increase in the population 

reaching age 65, as the Baby Boomers 

age, will be major factors in shaping 

health care policy for the next ten years 

and beyond. The entire spectrum of 

health care, physical and mental health, 

will be impacted by these two factors. 

Personal responsibility for life style 

choices and adherence to preventive 

care protocols are more important than 

ever in decreasing or eliminating the 

negative impact of preventable illnesses. 

When acute or chronic illnesses do 

occur, the issue of access to appropriate 

medical and mental health services will 

also need to address issues of 

coordination of care across multiple 

settings and continuity of care over 

time. Living longer while afflicted with 

chronic illnesses will also require 

attention to choices that maximize 

function, quality of life, and 

independence in the living environment 

of choice for the individual. 

Research, particularly more focused 

on issues associated with aging, and the 

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widespread dissemination and adoption 

of the information that the research 

reveals, will be a major contributor to 

the quality of health care. Quality in 

health care includes addressing issues 

of health disparities, cultural 

competencies, language barriers, health 

literacy, and patient safety. The concept 

of health is not the sole responsibility of 

the individual and the formal health 

care system, but it also includes the 

support provided by the aging network, 

multiple community organizations, 

improved information management 

systems, and the opportunity for 

meaningful social engagement. Issues of 

health care education of the population, 

in order to be integrally involved in 

heath care decisions and a health care 

workforce, sufficient in numbers and 

appropriately trained to address the 

special needs of the population are 

necessary ingredients for the success of 

any policy that is adopted. 

A. Access to Affordable, High Quality 

Services 

1. Development of a comprehensive, 

coordinated long term care strategy 

across the continuum of care, 

including benefits, living wills, endof-life care, and health measures (in 

conjunction with Planning Along the 

Lifespan long term care issues) 

2. Connecting evidence-based and 

comparative-based research with 

delivery of care 

3. Aligning payment policies with the 

continuum of care 

B. Healthy Lifestyles, Prevention, and 

Disease Management 

1. Prevention: Education and lifestyle 

modifications 

2. Disease management programs 

3. Appropriate treatment for and 

education on alcohol and substance 

abuse and mental health 

4. Provider and consumer education 

about disease prevention and mental 

health 

C. Delivery of Quality Care and 

Promotion of Maximum Independence 

for Individuals With Chronic Conditions 

1. Ensuring existence of a reliable, 

adequately trained, and culturally 

competent workforce 

2. Providing maximum independence 

and non-institutional care 

3. Ensuring appropriate care for seniors 

with disabilities 

4. Addressing the shortage of paid 

workers for elder care and services 

D. Use of Information To Improve All 

Health Care Services 

1. Resources to make informed health 

care decisions 

2. Medical research on aging issues 

3. Appropriate use of health information 

technology 

4. Sharing client information across 

multiple management systems 

E. Affordable, Defined Health Benefits, 

Including Mental Health Benefits, 

Through Medicare, Medicaid, and Other 

Federal and State Health Care Programs 

1. Ensuring adequate access to State and 

Federal health care programs 

V. Civic Engagement and Social 

Engagement 

Social engagement is crucial to the 

physical and psychological well-being 

of elderly citizens. Being engaged in 

such activity is important for older 

persons in maintaining physical vigor 

and for getting the type of social 

interaction and mental stimulation 

necessary to continue living a full, 

robust life. It is an equally important 

way in which senior citizens can 

contribute to their communities. There 

are a wide range of available activities 

that may be helpful individually, to 

other citizens and more generally, to 

sustain the quality of civic life. There 

are opportunities for volunteers in 

hospitals, schools, and museums, and 

with religious and service organizations, 

as well as in many other noninstitutional settings. Key questions to 

be addressed regarding Baby Boomers as 

they age are what will be their level of 

participation in volunteerism, what 

types of activities will attract them, and 

how to remove barriers that prevent 

older Americans from volunteering in 

their communities. 

A. Integration of the Elderly With the 

Non-Elderly Community 

1. Strategies for changing attitudes 

toward aging/intergenerational 

dynamics 

2. Creation of Baby Boomer volunteer 

opportunities 

3. Promoting expanded opportunities 

for companionship and leisure to 

reduce isolation and loneliness 

B. Effective Individual Adaptation to the 

Conditions of Aging 

1. Increasing physical activity among 

the elderly 

2. Continuing higher education for the 

older learner, including computer 

literacy training 

VI. Technology and Innovation in an 

Emerging Senior/Boomer Marketplace 

There are an increasing number of 

new products and operational practices 

that intend to help the elderly cope with 

challenges that affect their mobility, 

independence, and quality of life. They 

include personal mobility and 

communication devices, housing and 

vehicle design, and pharmaceutical 

advances. Some of these are beginning 

to be marketed and others are in 

development. But some with potentially 

dramatic impacts on older persons, and 

the rest of the population, are 

completely unknown. For example, at 

the 1981 White House Conference, 

would it have been predicted that by 

2005, cell phones, the Internet, or CDs 

and DVDs would be in such common 

use? Over the next 20 years as Baby 

Boomers comprise the large majority of 

the elderly population, the marketplace 

affecting them will change in ways that 

will make their lives easier but may in 

other ways, make their lives more 

complicated. 

A. Promoting New Products, Technology 

and New Ways of Marketing That Will 

Be Helpful/Useful to the Older 

Consumer 

1. Developing creative products to 

support independence 

2. Creating awareness of available 

technologies 

3. Designing technology products that 

assist the broadest range of consumers 

4. Assure the innovative and 

competitive leadership of American 

technology to meet rapidly-increasing 

global demand for aging-related 

products and services 

5. Establishing a public, private and 

intergovernmental partnership to 

harmonize the patchwork of different 

Federal, State, and local policies, 

rules, regulations, standards, and 

codes that complicate and sometimes 

impede demand for and distribution 

of technology products and services 

6. Assuring rational technology policies 

that stimulate innovation and 

investment 

**Cross cutting issues: Issue development 

should include consideration of differences 

among the following variables: socioeconomic, disability/non-disability, rural/ 

urban, minority, cultural, linguistic 

competencies/literacy, age cohort (e.g., 55–

65, 65–75, 75–85, 85+), and global aging. It 

should also include consideration of 

strategies for changing attitudes toward 

aging. Research intending to increase the 

ability to cope with the conditions of aging 

and best practices should be identified. 

Appendix 2—White House Conference 

on Aging Program Agenda 

Saturday, December 10, 2005 

6 p.m.–9 p.m. Conference Registration 

Location: Just off hotel lobby 

Sunday, December 11, 2005 

10 a.m.–10 p.m. Conference 

Registration 

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Location: Just off hotel lobby 

Pre-Conference Events 

10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 

Get Involved: A White House 

Conference on Aging Service Project 

Organized by the Corporation for 

National and Community Service and 

the Washington, DC Jewish Community 

Center. 

A service project to help repair and 

weatherize a Washington, DC building 

that serves Latino seniors. 

All delegates are invited to 

participate, but space is limited. To 

register as a volunteer for the event, call 

Lavinia Balaci at 202.777.3246 or e-mail 

lavinia@dcjj.org. 1:30 p.m.–4 p.m. 

Healthy Living Celebration!! 

Coordinator: President’s Council on 

Physical Fitness 

Presenters: 

■ Melissa Johnson, Executive Director, 

President’s Council on Physical 

Fitness and Sports 

■ Mollie Katzen, renowned healthy 

cookbook author, ‘‘Moosewood 

Cookbook’’

■ Mark Zeug, Chairman, National 

Senior Games Association 

■ Dot Richardson, Olympian and Board 

Member, President’s Council on 

Physical Fitness and Sports 

Simultaneous Fitness Sessions: 

■ Ya-La Dancing 

■ Theraband 

■ Tai Chi 

■ Line Dancing 

Fitness Recognition Ceremony 

3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. BY INVITATION 

ONLY 

Roundtable on Global Aging 

Moderator: Richard Jackson, Ph.D. 

Director, Global Aging Initiative 

Center for Strategic and International 

Studies, Washington, DC 

The 21st Century burgeons in a new 

era of global aging in industrialized and 

industrializing nations. 

4 p.m.–6 p.m. Top 50 Resolution 

Voting 

5:30 p.m.–6 p.m. Exhibition Hall 

Ribbon Cutting 

Evening Welcoming Reception 

Organized by the Corporation for 

National and Community Service 

Monday, December 12, 2005 

5:30 a.m.–7:30 a.m. Continental 

Breakfast Buffet 

6 a.m.–Noon Conference Registration 

Location: Just off Hotel Lobby 

9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Opening Plenary 

11 a.m.–1 p.m. Top 50 Resolution 

Voting 

Noon–1 p.m. Box Lunch 

1 p.m.–5 p.m. 

Presentation & Discussion of Policy 

Tracks 

■ Health and Long Term Living: The 

Honorable Mark McClellan, M.D., 

Ph.D., Administrator, Centers for 

Medicare and Medicaid Services 

■ Planning Along the Lifespan: The 

Honorable Hal Daub, J.D. 

■ Workplace of the Future: Ken 

Dychtwald, Ph.D., President, Age 

Wave 

■ Civic Engagement and Social 

Engagement, David Eisner, CEO, 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service 

■ Our Community (confirmation 

pending) 

■ Technology and Innovation in an 

Emerging Senior/Boomer Marketplace 

(confirmation pending) 

5 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Final Opportunity to 

Vote for Top 50 Resolutions 

7 p.m.–9 p.m. Networking Receptions 

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 

6:30 a.m.–8 a.m. Continental Breakfast 

Buffet 

8:30 a.m.–11 a.m. 

Morning Resolution Implementation 

Strategy Sessions (Facilitated) 

■ Planning Along the Lifespan 

■ Workplace of the Future 

■ Our Community 

■ Health and Long Term Living 

■ Civic Engagement and Social 

Engagement 

■ Technology and Innovation in an 

Emerging Senior/Boomer Marketplace 

11 a.m.–Noon Box Lunch 

Noon–2:30 p.m. 

Afternoon Resolution Implementation 

Strategy Sessions (Facilitated) 

■ Planning Along the Lifespan 

■ Workplace of the Future 

■ Our Community 

■ Health and Long Term Living 

■ Civic Engagement and Social 

Engagement 

■ Technology and Innovation in an 

Emerging Senior/Boomer Marketplace 

3 p.m.–5:30 p.m. 

Afternoon Resolution Implementation 

Strategy Sessions (Facilitated) 

■ Planning Along the Lifespan 

■ Workplace of the Future 

■ Our Community 

■ Health and Long Term Living 

■ Civic Engagement and Social 

Engagement 

■ Technology and Innovation in an 

Emerging Senior/Boomer Marketplace 

Dinner Plans Being Finalized 

Wednesday, December 14, 2005 

6:30 a.m.–8 a.m. Continental Breakfast 

Buffet 

8:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Closing Plenary 

Session and Luncheon 

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