Center for Healthy Aging

       

 

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The Center for Healthy Aging, a program within the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences at TCU, provides support for healthy aging initiatives with emphasis on older adults, their families, and their caregivers.

 

Goals

Serve as a resource center for healthy aging by providing expertise and leadership to academic, professional and community organizations.

Facilitate on campus services that promote healthy aging for caregivers and elders.

Provide educational programs about healthy aging for students, faculty, health care professionals, and the community.

Foster scholarly inquiry on healthy aging and promote interdisciplinary research among faculty, students and community partners.

 

Community Outreach

To promote healthy aging through collaborative faculty and student service, education, and advocacy throughout the TCU and local community.

 

Curriculum Development

To encourage and promote healthy aging through interdisciplinary healthy aging education for TCU and the larger community.

 

Research

To encourage and promote interdisciplinary basic, clinical, and translational research on healthy aging.

 

For information on the Health Aging Exercise Class, click here.

 

Physician's Approval Form

 

Contact

Linda Curry

Executive Director

Center for Healthy Aging

l.curry@tcu.edu

817.257.7496