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Geriatrics & Healthy Aging
As life expectancies continue to rise, many of us will spend more years as older adults than past generations. Aging may bring about complex needs and specific medical considerations. With that in mind, Geriatrics & Healthy Aging in the UConn Center on Aging is set to reconfigure how we care for older adults.
When you choose UConn Health, you will experience centralized, innovative care all in one place. The UConn Center on Aging represents a unique medical service that combines well-organized primary care and high-quality specialized services.
Our expert physicians, faculty, and researchers are leading the way to ensure that aging adults can add life to their years. UConn Health is an academic medical center with cutting-edge research involving clinical strategies to maintain health, vitality, function, and independence in later life. We also provide high-level education and training, including geriatric fellowship, lectures and ground rounds, and summer conference series.
Why Choose UConn Health?
Multidisciplinary Approach & Centralized Services
Clinical care for older adults is often fragmented and confusing—but it doesn’t have to be. We offer primary care combined with specialist services, all in a new, scaled-up location. Whether you are dealing with anything from falls, medication interactions, and heart disease to osteoporosis, you can access highly sought-after primary care providers and meet with renowned specialists under the same roof. The UConn Center on Aging is your one-stop place to get all the care you need.
Focus on Precision Gerontology
We are beginning to unlock key insights into how aging happens for each person, how to delay chronic diseases, and address the challenges that all of us who grow old will someday face. We understand the vast differences in how we age and use that knowledge to develop more effective prevention and treatment strategies tailored to each of our patients.
We Have High-Quality, Specialized Programs
At UConn Health, we have an enhanced Memory Assessment Program and a program for Geriatric Care and Healthy Lifestyle. These programs unite geriatricians, psychologists, neurologists, social workers, nurses, and others, all with a primary goal of pushing the boundaries of elderly care.
We Are an Academic Medical Center
UConn Health, an academic health center, is one of the fifteen Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers that receive funding for excellence in senior care from the National Institutes of Health. We take great pride in our cutting-edge aging research involving clinical strategies to preserve health and functionality as we age.