Walter Leutz

Professor Emeritus of The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Gerontology

Health Care Financing

Public Access Programs for People with Disabilities

Social Welfare Planning or Policy

Long-term care financing and service delivery

Disabilities policy

Healthy aging

Scholarship and Biography

In retirement Walter and his partner Betsy founded Waltham Connections for Healthy Aging, a community organization led by older adults working in partnership with community agencies to promote healthy aging in Waltham. Since 2017 more than $400,000 has been raised to support inclusion of low-income and immigrant seniors in services and activities, civic engagement, intergenerational activities, food pantries in public housing, and free Chromebooks, training and wifi to Waltham seniors who cannot afford them. See WalthamConnections.org

Link

Waltham Connections

Waltham Connections webpage

Honors

Fellow

Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 1997

HSSP Graduation Speaker

Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2011

Organizational Affiliations

Professor Emeritus of The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Education

Brandeis University

Ph.D.

Columbia University in the City of New York

M.S.W.

Princeton University

B.A.