Summit on Safe, Independent Living: Home Health Care, Aging Populations and the Residential Environment

Co-organized by Fire Protection Research Foundation and National Fire Protection Association

November 4, 2015
Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista
Orlando, Florida

Download the summit program. (PDF, 213 KB)

Morning session

Keynote: Emerging Trends for Aging in Place (PDF, 2.8 MB)
Robert N. Mayer, PhD, The Rothschild Foundation

Health Care Technology Moves into the Home: Challenges and Opportunities (PDF, 637 KB)
Marilyn Neder Flack, AAMI Foundation

ASPR’s HHS emPOWER Map (PDF, 3.7 MB)
Kristen Finne, HHS/ASPR/ OPP/ Division of Health System Policy (DHSP)

Federal Resources on Access and Functional Needs in the Home (PDF, 2.1 MB)
Kristen Finne, HHS/ASPR/ OPP/ Division of Health System Policy (DHSP)

Panel Presentation – Home Health and Emergency Services

Current Issues and Trends in Home Health (PDF, 1 MB)
Cyndi Shook, Kindred at Home 

Community Integrated Health Care (PDF, 3.5 MB)
Matt Zavadsky, Medstar

Fire-Based Community Health Care Provider Programs (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Otto Drozd III, Fire Chief, Orange County Fire Rescue Department

Panel Presentation – Education and Prevention

NFPA’s Remembering When Program (PDF, 347 KB)
Karen Berard-Reed, NFPA

Educational and Prevention Program Implementation in North Carolina (PDF, 423 KB)
Carol Layton, NC Baptist Aging Ministry

Home Fire Preparedness from the American Red Cross (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Tiffaney Chin, American Red Cross

Current Status of the NFPA Codes and Standards (PDF, 2.9 MB)
Robert Solomon, and Jon Hart, NFPA