In response to the rapidly expanding population of older adults in the state of Arizona and throughout the country, the Arizona State University College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation has launched the Center for Healthy Outcomes in Aging.
The primary purpose of the center is to develop and test interventions that promote the highest level of health and quality of life for individuals who are aging within a culturally diverse society. The center emphasizes multidisciplinary, theory-based interventions across a variety of clinical settings.
This comprehensive Center has been initiated to bring together Arizona State University and the greater Phoenix community’s expertise in aging research, community involvement, and gerontology health promotion.
aging center goals:
- Obtain sponsored funding to perform clinical, interdisciplinary and translational research, improving scientific and cultural knowledge to benefit Arizona’s aging population.
- Serve as a repository for resources, community and professional education, link clinical practice and leadership in gerontology health promotion to target healthy outcomes in aging.
- Offer cutting edge evidenced based curricula in healthy outcomes in aging through graduate and undergraduate curricular electives, threads through the curriculum, substantive foci in nursing graduate courses, continuing and community education.
A National Advisory Board has been formed, with members serving to:
- Guide the Center’s direction in interdisciplinary research, leadership and social embeddedness;
- Serve as Visiting Scholars in their areas of expertise; and
- Review scholarship productivity from the Center.
