Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vocalzang. As part of our special

series for the American Society on Aging,

our guest today on the Noddle Better Show is Bob Blunkato.

Bob Blunkato is the current chair of ASA and is the president of Mat's Blunkato

and Associates.

Bob is a nationally recognized leader of numerous aging organizations

and Bob was instrumental in helping pass the 2010 Elder Justice Act.

In addition, Bob's work focuses among other other things, on health care, elder abuse, and ageism.

You know, not everybody in the world can be a victim of sexism.

Not everybody in the world can be a victim of sexism. Not everybody in the world can be a victim of racism, but everybody in the world can be a victim of ageism because the aging process affects everyone.

And we have not addressed this is with the same intensity as others and I think we're

reaching a point now where it's in the national interest from a social perspective

an economic perspective and a fairness perspective that we try and reframe our discussion around the aging process and to try to

combat all forms of ages and as we advance throughwise demographic revolution.

That of course is our guest today, ASA Chair Bob Blancato.

Please join me in welcoming to the not old better show via Skype,

Bob Blancato.

Well, Bob Blancato.

Well Bob Blancato, thanks so much for joining us today on the show.

My pleasure Paul, nice to be with you.

Well Bob, many of my audience will know you and really, you know, your work at ASA is front and center but

but you're well known as an aging advocate and I love that that description of

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