Toolkit: Make Your Plan to Host Lawmakers

Last week, Tana Gall, President of Merrill Gardens, and Michael Queene, General Manager of The Pines of Newmarket, shared their experiences in meeting with and hosting lawmakers for visits at senior living communities, relaying how important it is for lawmakers to see how senior living cares for its residents and how they can help support senior living through public policy (recording available, appx. 40 minutes).

Now it's your turn.

We know that one of the most effective ways to tell the story of senior living—and to help advance public policies to support senior and caregivers—is by hosting lawmakers in a community.

Telling our story about the value of assisted living, the impact on the lives of the seniors you serve and their families, is an opportunity to put a “face” to the senior living industry. These visits allow policymakers to hear directly from you, your employees and your residents, so they can better understand the challenges you face and see, firsthand, why strengthening the senior living model is so important to our nation’s aging population.

To help more senior living communities join in our grassroots advocacy efforts to educate and inform lawmakers on the value of senior living and our policy solutions, Argentum prepared a toolkit on hosting lawmakers for community visits.

The Community Visits with Lawmakers Toolkit provides you with the tools you need to set up effective conversations with legislators at one of your communities.

It includes sample invitations you can send to lawmakers, a sample itinerary or tour structure, best practices for preparing for your visit, how to make your request for support of legislation and continue your conversation after the event concludes, and information on how to get started and work with Argentum and your State Partners in setting up these events.