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Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation��Fall Assembly 2023

December 4, 2023

Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation

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Welcome!

Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation

Welcome and overview of the academic year for CHAI

12:30 – 1:00

Introduce new Associate Director of Education: Marti DeLiema, PhD

1:00 – 1:05

Recognize development of new Policy Core

1:05 – 1:15

1:15 – 1:35

CHAI’s Special Interest Groups

1:35 – 2:00

Open Discussion

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Academic Year Overview

Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation

  • Strategic Plan: 2021-2026
    • Available here
  • 2020-2021 Annual Report
    • Available here
  • 2022 Annual Report
    • Available here
  • 2023 Annual Report
    • Coming soon!

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Academic Year Overview

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Academic Year Overview

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  • Assistant Professor in School of Social WOrk
  • PhD in Gerontology
  • Research focuses on elder financial exploitation and vulnerability to scams
  • Goal as the Associate Director for Education is to grow student interest in aging across campus and opportunities for students to engage in research and direct practice with older adults

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Research Core

External Speakers

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Idea hatching workshops

Aging workgroup grant review

Fesler-Lampert Chair funding

“To provide center members with support and collaboration to advance their programs of scholarship in aging.”

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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

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  • Goals: space for dialogue and knowledge exchange in the field of aging research
  • 8 active SIGs
  • SIGs bring together individuals with shared interests in a topic or a research method, with the goal of fostering scholarly collaboration.
    • Self directed
    • Members can collaborate on different topics
    • Members choose outcomes of interest

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Special Interest Groups

An important goal of the CHAI Research Core is to create a space for dialogue and knowledge exchange among scholars, students and community members around common interests in the field of aging research.

Special Interest Groups bring together individuals with shared interests in a topic or a research method, with the ultimate goal of fostering scholarly collaboration. The groups are self-directed and members can decide to collaborate on a variety of topics, from writing research papers to submitting conference presentations to developing grant ideas and other partnerships.

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  • Transportation in Aging (contacts: Laura Hemmy, PhD, hemmy001@umn.edu and Kyle Shelton, PhD, shelt169@umn.edu).
  • Rural Aging (check out the Rural Collective led by Carrie Henning-Smith, henn0329@umn.edu).
  • Financial Decision-Making and Aging (led by Marti DeLiema, PhD, mdeliema@umn.edu).
  • LGBTQ Aging (led by Rajean Moone, PhD, moon0060@umn.edu).
  • AD/ADRD Special Interest Group (led by Joseph Gaugler, PhD, gaug0015@umn.edu).
  • Early Life Adversity, Stress, & Trauma: Impact on Health in Later Life and the Buffering Effects of Resilience Resources (led by Mustafa al’Absi, PhD, malabsi@d.umn.edu).
  • Nursing Homes & Senior Care (co- led by Rajean Moone, PhD, moon0060@umn.edu and Tetyana Shippee, PhD, tshippee@umn.edu)
  • Dissemination (led by Dr. Allison Gustavson, Allison.Gustavson@va.gov)

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Public Calendar of Aging Events

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Stay Connected!

Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation

  • Email
    • chai@umn.edu
  • Website
    • https://sph.umn.edu/chai
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  • LinkedIn
    • https://bit.ly/CHAI-Linkedin

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