By SCBIZ Staff

MYRTLE BEACH -- Retirement Living TV, the first cable network created for people aged 55 and over, will host South Carolina's Statewide "Call to Action" Leadership Summit on Aging Friday at the Grand Strand Senior Center in Myrtle Beach.

Retirement Living TV host John Palmer — former anchor and White House correspondent for NBC — will moderate a panel including Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer and U.S. Assistant Secretary for Aging at the Department of Health and Human Services Josefina Carbonell.

RLTV will the panel for future broadcast. Bauer and Carbonell will discuss how South Carolina and the Federal Government are responding to the growing needs of seniors in America.

RLTV founder and CEO John Erickson has been involved with the senior care industry since the early 1970s. Erickson launched the network in September 2006 with content designed to inform, involve and inspire seniors by offering information on finances, health and fitness, politics and social issues, media and entertainment. RLTV programming is available in more than 25 million U.S. homes.