Addressing long-term care opportunities for the direct care workforce and adopting an all-of-government approach to aging are among the recommendations senior living leaders made in comments to senators about an Older Americans Act discussion draft in advance of a July 31 executive session about the act.

The US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension, or HELP, Committee released a discussion draft on OAA reauthorization on July 13 and requested comments by July 19. The act is reauthorized every five years, and its current authorization ends Sept. 30.