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If you were in New York City on Wednesday morning, you might have been on your way to see the tree at Rockefeller Center, shopping at Macy’s or just enjoying a coffee at one of the many Starbucks.  Or, like me, you might have had the true delight of having breakfast at the 2015 Age Smart Employer Awards, with the indefatigable and charismatic Ruth Finkelstein presiding.

Eight years after the launch of the Age-Friendly program in New York, we now have the full engagement of businesses in the city thanks to a joint initiative of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which provided the funding.

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