Larry Curley – Executive Director – The National Indian Council on Aging
Larry Curley, Executive Director, National Indian Council on Aging, discusses the importance of comprehensive health care, social services, and economic security for American indians and Alaska Native elders.
Mr. Larry Curley is Executive Director of The National Indian Council on Aging (https://www.nicoa.org/), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by members of the National Tribal Chairmen’s Association who called for a national organization focused on the needs of aging American Indian and Alaska Native elders. The mission of NICOA advocates for better comprehensive health, social service and economic well-being among American Indian and Alaska Native Elders.
Mr. Curley, a member from the Navajo Nation, has over 40 years’ experience in the aging field and healthcare. He has worked closely with Congress, the other branches of federal government and national organizations to support programs that affect elder American Indians.
Mr. Curley, who earned a master’s in public administration from the University of Arizona and a certificate in Gerontology, worked as a gerontological planning at an Area Agency on Aging, in Pima County in Arizona. He was instrumental in setting up a county fiduciary. He was a Washington, D.C. lobbyist who successfully advocated the passage of Title VI, the Older Americans Act, which he authored.
Mr. Curley was the director of the Navajo Nation Head Start Program, which is one of the largest Head Start programs across the nation. He has also worked as a long-term care administrator for a tribe in northern Nevada and as a hospital administrator.
Mr. Curley has been named assistant dean of Four Corners for the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has also served as a public representative on American College of Physicians Clinical Guidelines Committee and as director of program for Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services, located in northwest New Mexico.
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