I was honored to be invited by AARP to to their Public Policy Institute Innovation Roundtable on Using Financial Incentives to Promote Healthy Behaviors, held April 29 at the AARP headquarters in Washington, DC. The all-day Roundtable included approximately 25 experts representing a wide variety of specialties, including representatives from non-profit health advocacy agencies, researchers, an ethicist, a philosopher, employers, vendors, consultants, lawyers, and a health plan. If you’ve read any wellness research or attended wellness conferences in recent years, you certainly would have recognized many of the people seated around the table.

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