With people over the age of 65 anticipated to make up 21% of the nation's population by 2030, the  healthcare industry is beginning to prepare for the influx.
 
In a letter to the Biden administration, Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO of LeadingAge, the association of nonprofit providers of aging services, urged the development of an Office on Aging Policy, which would provide "centralized leadership and cross-government coordination to address the needs of and ensure resources are delivered to older adults and families."
 
"We are not prepared for the demographic change that is fast approaching. The federal government's focus on aging has developed from bottom up, without designated leadership," Sloan said in the letter. "The result of this scattered approach is severely inadequate support for older adults in our country, which impacts quality of life and takes extraordinary tolls on communities and families—particularly those of color."