My satisfying work as a volunteer with the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine (Our Foundation) gives me a chance to do things at this stage of my career—admittedly a later stage—that I don’t get to do in my many other activities in geriatrics and long-term care. Specifically, I have been joining with a terrific group of other AMDA volunteers to generate more of the values that attract many of us to this field and reward us for staying in it. For me, that has meant helping to establish environments and conditions for quality care for the tens of thousands of patients and families who depend upon us. It has meant providing medical services that help people enjoy a better quality of life and have as much confidence as possible in their care at a difficult and challenging time in life. One of the programs of Our Foundation that means a great deal to me is the Futures program. There are a number of reasons for this. One is that it brings into our fold 60 to 70 new professionals each year. One question I’ve been asked is, “Do they stay in the profession?” A recent analysis shows that although only half are long-term AMDA members—and we will start working on that right away—many more have taken positions in PALTC. Some no longer reside in the same state as when they attended their Futures training, but they are in the field nonetheless. Our investment appears sound, and the Foundation and Society are working together to ensure the success of the Futures program going forward. When a member reaches my career stage, they often are looking for a new generation of professionals to take on their work, their patients, and the facilities where they work. In many places, this is no small matter. That is why I myself recruited two Futures candidates and contributed their Futures scholarships. In that way, I was able to get a start on finding new talent to succeed me in one of my service locations. And it did work. More recently, other AMDA members have done the same thing. For instance, Dr. Tim Gieseke and his colleague, Dr. David Greene, are approaching the end of their careers in medicine (aging out if you will) and dream of handing the baton over in the coming years to the next generation of geriatricians. They were successful in encouraging their administrator to sponsor two full scholarships for the 2018 Futures program. Dr. Gieseke penned an article about his experience at www.caltcm.org. I think there is a model here that can be expanded, and it is built on personalization. It starts with identifying a need, such as a facility or community that needs trained PALTC medical expertise. Then, an individual AMDA member or members, or a state chapter, can begin an organized recruiting drive to identify candidates for Futures training. They can donate or raise scholarships for their attendance at the annual conference, which also generates other AMDA-provided benefits. But it doesn’t stop there. A successful recruitment program needs personalized follow-up, encouragement, and possibly assistance from a network of individuals to make the total recruitment effort a success.Start with identifying a facility in need of PALTC medical expertise, then identify candidates for Futures training followed by personalized follow-up, encouragement, and assistance from a network of individuals to make the total recruitment effort a success. At this point, I am thinking about my career legacy. One thing I am doing is making a provision for Our Foundation in my estate plan—actually a sizeable provision (for me and my wife) since we feel funds left to Our Foundation, a small charity, will have much more impact than those left to a large nonprofit institution. But I also feel that Our Foundation’s efforts to provide practitioners to succeed us is another very important part of our legacy, one that I am thrilled to be working to achieve. If you would like to join this effort in any number of ways—sponsoring a Futures participant, joining the Foundation Development Committee, working with your state chapter, reaching out to Futures trainees, etc.—please contact Chris Ewing at [email protected] Dr. Rapp is a past president of AMDA and is a member of the Foundation’s Development Committee. He spends his time between Texas and Colorado where he serves as a medical director.