Liz Taylor
Liz Taylor, founder and principal of Aging Well Consortium, is an award-winning journalist, speaker, consumer educator and pioneer on a host of aging issues. She consults, writes and lectures on a variety of aging topics with a mission to educate families, older people, community planners, legislators and providers on important issues that affect how we age.
During her 14-year tenure as a journalist for The Seattle Times, Liz coined the phrase, “Aging Deliberately,” to express her firm belief that most of us age “accidentally,” without planning or forethought. By refusing to face our aging head on and learning how to age on purpose, we lose control over what happens to us when we are most vulnerable.
Liz began her career in the early 1970s as a consumer fraud investigator for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 1976, Elizabeth Dole, an FTC Commissioner at the time, appointed Liz director of a nationwide investigation of the nursing home industry. Fascinated by what she found, she’s worked in the field ever since – almost 35 years.
In the 1980s, Liz established one of the first geriatric care management businesses in the Pacific Northwest, helping thousands of older adults and their families make good decisions about their aging, care and housing needs.
Today, through her website, www.agingwellconsortium.com, Liz is expanding the platform for exploring the many facets of aging. The Consortium, along with her monthly newsletter, “Aging Deliberately,” brings together her articles with those of professionals, citizens and experts from a broad range of disciplines and experiences.
Through her writing, speaking and one-on-one consulting, she helps older individuals and their families deal with, and find solutions to, the enormous challenges of reaching “a good old age.” She also hopes to encourage new ideas, new blood and refreshingly new attitudes in a profession that has long been stuck in the status quo.
Liz Taylor, founder and principal of Aging Well Consortium, is an award-winning journalist, speaker, consumer educator and pioneer on a host of aging issues. She consults, writes and lectures on a variety of aging topics with a mission to educate families, older people, community planners, legislators and providers on important issues that affect how we age.
During her 14-year tenure as a journalist for The Seattle Times, Liz coined the phrase, “Aging Deliberately,” to express her firm belief that most of us age “accidentally,” without planning or forethought. By refusing to face our aging head on and learning how to age on purpose, we lose control over what happens to us when we are most vulnerable.
Liz began her career in the early 1970s as a consumer fraud investigator for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 1976, Elizabeth Dole, an FTC Commissioner at the time, appointed Liz director of a nationwide investigation of the nursing home industry. Fascinated by what she found, she’s worked in the field ever since – almost 35 years.
In the 1980s, Liz established one of the first geriatric care management businesses in the Pacific Northwest, helping thousands of older adults and their families make good decisions about their aging, care and housing needs.
Today, through her website, http://www.agingwellconsortium.com, Liz is expanding the platform for exploring the many facets of aging. The Consortium, along with her monthly newsletter, “Aging Deliberately,” brings together her articles with those of professionals, citizens and experts from a broad range of disciplines and experiences.
Through her writing, speaking and one-on-one consulting, she helps older individuals and their families deal with, and find solutions to, the enormous challenges of reaching “a good old age.” She also hopes to encourage new ideas, new blood and refreshingly new attitudes in a profession that has long been stuck in the status quo.