Larry Polivka
Larry
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.
2005 White House Conference
on Aging
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