#LeadingAge18 energizing! Ideas! Opportunities! So much positive in aging quality, policy, consumer needs (occupation of sleep). It is OT distinct value! Meeting great AOTA members! Any OT practitioners here reach out! LeadingAge @ajlamb1216

Vote! See AOTA Legislative Action Center for voting Info cqrcengage.com/aota/elections? See here for reasons why elections are important to OT cqrcengage.com/aota/Take_Acti… @JTigheAOTA Abe 🟨🟧🟪🟩 Saffer Heather Parsons AOTA Regulatory @ajlamb1216 Raise your voice as a citizen!

Repeal of the cap this year brought $6billion into therapy. Great advocacy by members, consumers, organizations working together. #OThanks AOTA Advocacy works!

So many advocates to #OThanks. AMA advisors like Mary Foto advocating since 1993 for good codes and value! Leslie Davidson GW University who is on the full CPT panel! AOTA

#OThankd to AOTPAC board members Over the years! Yes I mean you Paul Fontana Gail Fisher @ajlamb1216 Barbara Winthrop Linda Savino Lauren Rivett. And Darlene Dennis who helped us all! Everybody vote tomorrow! AOTA Darlene Dennis

Today is LEADER day for #OThanks. So be a leader for country community and profession and VOTE! AOTA AOTA Events Abe 🟨🟧🟪🟩 Saffer @JTigheAOTA

Today is MENTOR day #OThanks. I want to recognize all AOTA Policy Staff for mentoring fieldwork students AOTA ASD for 20+ years! Our students are now first class leaders and mentoring others! Heather Parsons Abe 🟨🟧🟪🟩 Saffer Darlene Dennis AOTA Regulatory @JTigheAOTA

At a Families USA launch of Health Equity Center in Washington AOTA AJ Lamb Barbara L. Kornblau former AOTA president here too!

⁦Families USA⁩ Takisha Everette CT Health Equity Solutions “examine the barriers in your own community.” ⁦Families USA⁩ ⁦@ajlamb1216⁩ ⁦AOTA⁩ ⁦Barbara L. Kornblau⁩

I am so proud of our AOTA policy team! check out this list aota.org/Advocacy-Polic… and more recently aota.org/Publications-N… Wow! AOTA working for you in 2018 and always!

Met the grandson of a WWI OT at AOTA PAC event for Rep. Barbara Lee (Archived), a great OT supporter. An early connection! Martha Moffet Bache was also an artist in Smithsonian Museum of American Art americanart collection americanart.si.edu/artist/martha-…. She worked at @WalterReedArmy

Horrible taxi system Reagan Airport get an air traffic controller out there to help those taxi dispatchers. They work hard but the system is a mess. Yes to construction. No to long taxi waits and no go long walks to the only taxi dispatch

Representing AOTA at National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Panel today on enforcing mental health parity. Answer to shortages: Use OT as a MH professional! Heather Parsons Tina Champagne, OTD, FAOTA Families USA

Advocating at National Association of Insurance Commissioners with ASHA @APTAtweets re difficult utilization management or prior authorizations for OT/PT/ST. Send your experiences to [email protected]. And yes it is Sunday morning!

#CokieRoberts a great reporter sadly lost had a connection to occupational therapy. Her mother, Hon. Lindy Boggs, helped OT in Congress around 1980. AOTA gives a political advocacy award in Boggs’ name. Daughter and mother: Living Life to Its Fullest.

Please do something about the Cab stand and do t use the remodel as an excuse. Passengers walk and walk then wait in line then go backwards. HAVE TWO TAXI STATIONS. there is room!

#othillday just getting started! Here’s to advocacy for the profession and your clients!

Advocates for OT waiting for the second session of #OTHillDay

first session of ⁦AOTA⁩ advocates at #othillday

Welcome Maile Pearl to Tammy Duckworth family! AOTA staff Heather Parsons christina metzler with OT student @HawkeyeOT Clarice Miller with Sen. Mom in 2017! Maybe maile will grow up to be an OT! Daniel K. Akaka blessed her name. He was our friend too !