2005 White House Conference on Aging


Larry Polivka

Larry PolivkaLarry Polivka has served as Director of the Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging, which is part of the School of Aging Studies at the University of South Florida, since September of 1992. Since August 2003, he has served as Associate Director of the USF School of Aging Studies. Dr. Polivka worked at the State of Florida’s Health and Rehabilitative Services as Assistant Secretary for Aging and Adult Services from August 1989 through September 1992 and as Policy Coordinator for Health and Human Services, Office of Planning and Budgeting, Executive Office of the Governor from 1986 through August 1989. Dr. Polivka’s primary research interests are in long-term care, housing, ethics and politics of care, globalization/population aging, cultures of aging, and the arts/humanities and aging.


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2005 White House Conference on Aging
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