1. What are the most important factors to focus on when we think about optimal aging?

• Why do you feel this way, how did you come to this conclusion or these beliefs?

2. How do these factors impact the families and communities where older adults reside?

3. Think of a policy or program that provides services to older adults and how it relates to your answers to questions one and two.

• What are the program's strengths related to your prior answers?
• How might these strengths be replicated or enhanced in other programs?
• What opportunities do you see for improving the program?

4. What perspectives on aging do you think best fit our social work values - and why?