President George W. Bush has selected Joseph F. Coughlin, director of MIT’s AgeLab, to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. ; The conference, which only occurs once every 10 years, provides recommendations to the president and Congress to help shape aging policy for the next 10 years. Past conferences have led to the passage of Medicare and Medicaid, the Supplemental Security Income program and the Older Americans Act.The 22-member Advisory Committee will advise the president and Congress on a variety of policy areas, including technology, economic security, transportation, housing, health care and other issues of concern to the nation’s aging population. Committee members were appointed on May 13.With the more than 76 million baby boomers turning 50 at a rate of one every seven seconds, the stakes are high.« We may not have enough time to introduce a number of the innovations already developed, » Coughlin said. For example, new technology designed to adapt cars to the needs of older drivers can be applied in two to three years by automakers, but it may take a further 10 years for these changes to percolate through the national fleet, he said.That means the
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