Long term care and income planning issues crop up often on the agenda for the upcoming 2005 White House Conference on Aging.[@@]

The 4-day conference, required by the federal Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000, is scheduled to start Dec. 11 at a hotel in Washington.

Conference participants are supposed to "develop not more than 50 recommendations to guide the president, Congress and federal agencies in serving older individuals," Edwin Walker, a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, writes in a preamble to the conference agenda.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.