The Commission

Amy Anderson brings to the Utah Commission on Aging a perspective from both her civic and long-term healthcare background. Serving as Chair of the Logan City Council, she was recommended by the Utah League of Cities and Towns to Governor Herbert. Her dual roles at Sunshine Terrace Foundation as Director of Outreach and Spiritual Counselor for Sunshine Hospice provide background in long term care and end of life care. She is a certified Dementia Dialogues instructor through the UT Department of Health and has chaired Cache County’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s for three years.  Amy holds a Masters in Healthcare Administration from Washington University in St. Louis and a BS in Communications Studies from Northwestern University.

Elizabeth Fauth is a Professor in Human Development and Family Studies and the Director of the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research Center at Utah State University. Her research interests are in caregiving for people living with dementia, cognitive and psychosocial predictors of functional ability in late life, and interventions for stress and mental health across adulthood.

Jim enjoys working with business executives, small business owners, professional auditors, local governments to achieve the common goals of creating economic development in Utah. He attained a Bachlors of Arts and a Masters of Business of Administration from the University of Utah. He holds a professional designation as a Certified Government Financial Manager from the Association of Government Accountants. He and his wife Mindy live in Woods Cross with their three kids where he volunteers a few nights a month as a Citizen Planner.

Christy Allen has served on the State Board of Aging and Adult Protective Services for the Division of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS) for 8 years, most currently as the Chair. During this time, she has had the opportunity to learn about and help solve gaps in services for aging adults across Utah. Christy works for Utah Transit Authority as the Manager of the Coordinated Mobility Department. This department uses Federal funds to work with community partners to fill transportation gaps within communities on the Wasatch Front for aging adults and persons with disabilities. Over 75 specialized transportation vehicles have been awarded to agencies/non-profits to provide much needed trips to a variety of services. Projects, such as a volunteer driver/voucher program, have been implemented so aging adults have more flexibility to meet their transportation needs. Christy is dedicated to continuing to serve the aging adults of Utah.

Gary is a recognized national leader of performance improvement in the long term care profession. As president/CEO of Mission Health Services (MHS), a multi-state skilled nursing, ALF, residential, and ICFID organization and is recognized as a catalyst for innovative approaches resulting in measurable improvements through his efforts as a pioneer of culture change.  Under his leadership, his facilities/communities were the first Eden registered centers in Utah, and has achieved five QIO Health Insight Quality awards, received four five-star CMS ratings, two deficiency free surveys, and won the distinguished Best of State for Skilled Nursing Facilities in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019. From his earliest job as a nursing assistant to his current state and national roles with MHS, American Health Care Association, and Utah Health Care Association he has dedicated his life to improving the quality of life for the elders he serves: AHCA Board of Governors, Utah Health Facilities Committee, Utah Commission on Aging, Utah Aging and Disability Resource Connection, Utah Medical Advisory Committee

Paul Leggett became the Division Director of Salt Lake County Aging & Adult Services in January 2017. In this role Paul oversees the services provided to older adults in Salt Lake County. Prior to this position Paul was the Executive Director of Community Action Partnership of Utah where he worked hand in hand with Utah's Community Action network to provide solutions to poverty and effect change. Paul also previously chaired the statewide Earn it. Keep it. Save it. coalition and directed CAP Utah's statewide Asset Development initiative. Paul currently serves on the Alzheimer’s Association Utah Chapter Board, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging Board, the Lt. Governor's Commission on Service & Volunteerism and is the chair of the Utah Association of Area Agencies on Aging. Paul, originally from Northampton, England, earned a bachelor's degree in behavioral sciences from the University of Northampton and a master's degree in management from the University of Leicester.

Linda Milne is a voice in our state for Disaster Preparedness for Aging Adults including how to create appropriate 96-hour emergency kits. She is recognized as a resource for disaster planning, response & recovery having served on multiple community, Millcreek and SLCO organizations as well as Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), a significant response and recovery presence in local, state and national disasters. Having served on the SLCO S.A.F.E Neighborhoods Task Force as a community voice, she speaks throughout the county about this unique community response strategy for catastrophic disaster. Milne in concluding 6 years as a director of ChamberWest Chamber of Commerce and is Chair of the Emergency Prepare Committee for Millcreek Business Council.

Joel is president and CEO of Community Nursing Services, CNS, a non-profit
established in 1928, providing home health, hospice, pharmacy/infusion therapy,
respiratory and immunization services. A staff of 560 serving communities
throughout Utah. Joel also serves as a trustee and secretary of the CNS board. Prior
to CNS he spent 28 years in senior leadership roles at Intermountain Healthcare; as a
senior operations officer in the Intermountain Medical Group and more recently as
the executive director of Intermountain Homecare and Hospice. His previous
experience also included an administrative role with Bryner Clinic a multiple specialty
physician group. Joel has an MS in gerontology and an MPA. He received the outstanding graduate student in gerontology Anna Dresel Award from the University of Utah College of Nursing. He has volunteered as a long-term care ombudsman, and
he has previously served as a hospice volunteer. He is a founder and director of
Wasatch Hollow Village a non-profit community based organization that supports
aging in place.

Alan Ormsby comes to AARP Utah with a strong background in leadership and advocacy for Utah's older adults and people with disabilities. His training is in law, with a focus on health care law, long-term care, home and community-based services, HIPAA, Medicare and Medicaid. Immediately prior to joining AARP in 2011, Alan served as the Director of the Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD,) leading Utah’s efforts to provide the best possible services for people with disabilities. Before serving as the DSPD Director, Alan was the Director of Aging and Adult Services at the State of Utah, and in this role was responsible for statewide home- and community-based services for Utahns 60 and over. In addition, he worked with the local Area Agencies on Aging, and was instrumental in drafting legislation to initiate Utah's Commission on Aging. Alan has served as a member on the Board of Utah Developmental Disabilities Council, Senator Orrin Hatch's Advisory Committee on People with Disabilities, and several long-term care policy groups. He also supervised Adult Protective Services, which investigates claims of abuse, neglect and exploitation involving persons who are disabled or elderly. Alan received his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah and law degree from Quinnipiac University

Mike Hollingshaus is a Senior Demographer at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, where he researches, writes, and presents on Utah demographics. He is an expert in population projections, birth rates, death rates, racial and ethnic demographics, and the aging population.

Dr. Hollingshaus holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Utah, with certificates in Demography and Diversity. He previously worked as a researcher at the Utah Population Database in the Huntsman Cancer Institute, identifying genetic and social factors contributing to human health and behavior. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Utah, including Social Statistics, Epidemiology, Family Health History, and Demographic Methods. He has published several pieces of applied research specific to Utah, and also in multiple peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Dr. Hollingshaus designs, programs, maintains, and operates Utah’s demographic projection modeling system. He is a member of the Federal-State Cooperative for Population Projections where he is proud to represent Utah. This group convenes researchers from the Census Bureau and state demography offices to improve research and communication of the country’s future population trends

Deepthi Rajeev is the Director of Patient Safety and Innovation for HealthInsight Utah. She leads the Adult Immunizations project for the HealthInsight QIN-QIO serving Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah and oversees quality improvement initiatives in nursing homes, home health agencies, hospitals, and pharmacies in Utah. Her areas of interests include quality improvement, advance care planning, personal health records, and public health surveillance and reporting. She has worked on several projects that have involved modeling of healthcare data using standards and vocabularies, research design, workflow analysis, usability testing, and evaluation. She co-leads an advance care planning advisory group that hosts an annual end of life care summit in Utah. Dr. Rajeev has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah, a Masters in Statistics from Brigham Young University, and a Masters in Computer Science from Osmania University, India. She was awarded a fellowship from the National Library of Medicine during her doctoral research. She has published in prominent medical informatics forums, including the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association and the Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association. She serves on the Utah Commission on Aging Board and the Utah Department of Health Institutional Review Board. She is a member of the Steering Committee for The Utah Chapter of the Conversation Project and is a member of the electronic POLST steering committee in Utah.

Jeri has worked for the Department of Community and Cultural Engagement in a variety of positions beginning at the Utah Arts Council (Arts and Museums) as the Public Information Officer, Economic Development as Public Information Officer during the 2002 Olympics and currently as Communication Manager at the Utah State Library.

Jeri’s background includes television producer at KUTV where she started the Baby Your Baby program, Wednesday’s Child, Coordinating Producer for SkyTwo helicopter and produced all news programs which include noon, six pm and 10 pm and the early four pm news shows. She also worked at KSL TV and Radio as a long format producer – producing many documentaries on a variety of subjects including Abuse, Elder Abuse and Foster Care. She has earned eight Emmy Awards and a National Iris and other regional and national awards.

Mark A. Supiano, M.D. directs the VA Salt Lake City Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center.  He is also the D. Keith Barnes, M.D. and Dottie Barnes Presidential Endowed Chair in Medicine, Professor and Chief, of the Division of Geriatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, and Executive Director, for the University of Utah Center on Aging.  Dr. Supiano has substantial experience in geriatric medical education leading D.W. Reynolds Foundation supported projects at the University of Michigan (2001-2005), the University of Utah “Comprehensive Program to Strengthen Physicians’ Training in Geriatrics” program (2006-2011), and the Reynolds funded project (2013-2017)  that targets training in patient quality, safety and care transitions for graduate medical education trainees.  Dr. Supiano’s research interests focus on geriatric hypertension. He is currently investigating arterial stiffness as a predictor of outcomes in the NHLBI-sponsored “Systolic Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT)” study.  He has authored over 80 research papers and book chapters and is the recipient of the 1999 Outstanding Clinical Research Award from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). He currently serves on the AGS Board of Directors and is Chair of the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs. 

Co-founder and president of Applied Technology Foundation dba TechCharities (2013 – present). Former managing director of LDS Welfare Services and president of LDS Charities. Served on the board of directors for Ag Reserves and Utah Legal Services. PhD in Economics from Iowa State University. Taught at Cornell University and Brigham Young University. Worked in Poland, Cambodia, and South America to improve food production. Presently, helping individuals have affordable computer devices and related training to participate in a digital world.

Nels Holmgren is the Director of the Division of Aging and Adult Services at the State of Utah, which oversees programs mandated by the Older Americans Act to promote healthy and secure lifestyles for Utah’s growing senior population. Working with local partners, the Area Agencies on Aging, and other interested parties in the Aging network, the Division provides critical services to empower Utah’s seniors to remain independent in their own homes. Additionally, the Division oversees Utah’s Adult Protective Services which investigates cases of abuse, neglect, and exploitation among Utah’s seniors and vulnerable adults, and works to resolve protective needs.

Troy T. Wilson is a practicing attorney with offices located in the Sugarhouse area of Salt Lake City. His firm focuses exclusively on estate planning, administration, and Elder Law, including the related areas of business planning, special needs and Medicaid planning, guardianship and probate and trust administration. Mr. Wilson holds a B.S. Degree in Finance, and a M.B.A. from the University of Utah, and a J.D. from the S.J. Quinney College of Law. Mr. Wilson is also a Certified Financial Planner. He is a member of the Utah State Bar Elder Law and Estate Planning sections. He serves on the Utah Commission on Aging, and is a member of ElderCounsel, Wealth Counsel, the Financial Planning Association, and the Salt Lake Estate Planning Counsel. Mr. Wilson has taught as an adjunct college professor as well as many continuing education courses to attorneys, financial planners, insurance agents and health care professionals and the public on topics such as Elder Law, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Medicaid and VA Planning, Estate Planning, Special Needs Planning, and Probate and Estate Administration

I have extensive experience in working on issues related to aging. I started my career at the University of Utah, Rocky Mountain Gerontology Center in 1974. In addition to being a Research Assistant at RMGC, I worked on Bachelors and Masters degrees in Sociology and a graduate certificate in Gerontology. That served as an excellent launch point for becoming the Senior Planner for Salt Lake County Aging Services in the late 70s. While there, I developed an interest and passion for specializing in housing and home and community based services for older people and people with disabilities.

While in graduate school and up until 1985, I did research and was employed as a Health Data Analyst with the University of Utah Department of Family and Community Medicine. Most of my time was spent working with the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute longitudinal national study on hypertension.

Curley has served as a trusted healthcare advisor to State Governors, U.S. Senators, federal & state agencies, association executives, and philanthropists to advance health for vulnerable populations. Since 2018, she has been an advisor and adjunct professor at the Center for Health Policy at Columbia University School of Nursing, a public policy consultant, Board member, and volunteer including the Utah Medical Reserve Corps.

From 2009-2018, Curley was CEO of Jonas Philanthropies to advance nursing education, vision research, veteran’s healthcare, and environmental health. Signature accomplishments: supporting 1,200 doctoral nursing scholars and future educators in all 50 states, developing a public private partnership with the U.S. Veterans Administration (2016-21), and collaborating with 25 national/global funders.

Elected to the Maine State Legislature in 2001, she served on both the House & Senate Appropriations Committee, charged to negotiate and balance the 8 billion-dollar state budget, and the Health & Human Services Committee, responsible for combining and reorganizing the Dept. of Human Services and Dept. of Behavioral and Developmental Services into one DHHS Agency. Curley co-chaired the State Long Term Care committee, Blue Ribbon Commission on Medicaid, and was appointed to the Health Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Darlene has given over 20 keynote presentations, published articles in the LA Times and Politico, and served on the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professions Education at the National Academies of Sciences. She has been recognized for healthcare policy leadership by the New York Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Nursing, the University of Maryland, and Columbia University. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Universities of Maine and Maryland and is completing a Doctoral degree.

Casey Cameron is currently the executive director for the Utah Department of Workforce Services. She was appointed by Gov. Spencer J. Cox in December 2020. Casey leads the Utah Department of Workforce Services, with a workforce of 2,200 employees spread across Utah. She oversees a complex budget of approximately $2.1 billion dollars, comprising several federal and state programs such as unemployment insurance, public assistance programs, workforce programs, child care assistance, refugee services, housing and community development, rehabilitation programs and veteran services. Prior to her tenure as an executive director, Casey served as a deputy director for the department for more than eight years. She has worked for the state of Utah for 24 years, serving in various capacities within Workforce Services. Casey has been instrumental in several significant departmental changes, such as leading the department through the COVID 19 pandemic and forming new divisions.

Throughout her career, Casey has held various management and training positions and worked closely with many federal and state partners. She currently serves as a commissioner on the Utah Economic Opportunity Commission and chairs the Governor’s Refugee Advisory Board. Casey serves on the Shelter the Homeless Board and Utah Homeless Council. In September 2023, Casey was elected to the Board of Directors for the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA). She is the past co-chair of the Intergenerational Poverty Commission and Governor’s Early Childhood Commission. She is a recipient of the 2018 Governor’s award for leadership, as well as the Governor’s award in the area of innovation and efficiency in 2010.

Casey is a graduate of the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in social and behavioral health. She lives in Cedar Hills, Utah, with her husband Ian, where they are raising an amazing seventeen year old. The oldest boy in their family is currently serving a Church mission in Santiago, Chile. Casey and her family enjoy the outdoors, watching their boys sporting events, gardening, traveling, and providing service to their community.

With a Bachelor Degree in International Relations (Diplomacy) from The Central University of Venezuela (UCV), as an advocate of the Hispanic communities of Salt Lake, and as head of The Americas Council, the Venezuelan Alliance of Utah, and participant of other relevant Hispanic non profits, I'm highly motivated by social causes of equality, integration, integrity and respect. My life and associations as well as my job must match my passion to lead people toward a more dignified, respected, stronger and unified Hispanic community, which is something I have been working for a few years; it hasn't been easy but It has been worth it