Robert Wolf

Robert Wolf, JD, has a long and distinguished career in aging, health, law, and philanthropy. He is currently serving as a consultant to a number of leading organizations, including
The New York Academy of Medicine and the National Council on Aging. For the past 18
years, Wolf has also served as a senior adviser to the SC Group, one of the country’s most
important philanthropic foundation groups in the field of geriatrics. Most recently, he
served as Senior Vice President for Innovation and Development at HealthCare Chaplaincy,
a national leader in the research, education, and practice of spirit-centered palliative care.
Prior to that, Wolf was the director of special projects at the AARP Foundation. He has also
served as the executive director of medical and geriatric programs for UJA Federation in
New York City, where he managed grants and programmatic support to community agencies, medical centers, and geriatric institutions. Wolf has also had a distinguished career
in law, first as a staff attorney at the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College and later
as a partner at Strauss and Wolf, the nation’s first law firm devoted to eldercare, where he
devised legal strategies that continue to influence the practice of law and aging. He has authored and coauthored publications on aging and the rights of caregivers. He earned a BA
degree from Brooklyn College, a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College, a
postgraduate certificate in not-for-profit management from the Columbia School of Business, and a JD from Brooklyn Law School. June 2016