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Healthy Aging Initiative
The primary goal of the Healthy Aging Initiative
is to work within an academic-community partnership model to promote
healthy aging and improve the quality of life of older adults through
community-based health programs, research, and service-learning
educational opportunities for medical students and residents. The
Healthy Aging Initiative also supports campus-based classroom and
extracurricular opportunities that increase medical students awareness
and knowledge of geriatrics and gerontology.
Through the Healthy Aging Initiative and
its faculty and staff, the following has been accomplished:
- Students established a MCW Student Chapter
of the American Geriatrics Society and have planned and coordinated
successful aging-related student outreach activities and programs.
- Community Care for the Elderly, a community-based
health and social service program for frail elderly developed
and implemented a family caregiver support program, Caring for
Caregivers.
- Chat and Chew program was developed and implemented
in elderly public housing developments: Arlington Court, College
Court, Convent Hill, Merrill Park, and Mitchell Court.
- Chat and Chew has been integrated as a requirement
into family practice and general internal medicine (including
MED/GER) residency programs. It remains a voluntary program for
the medical students.
- Student mentoring for summer research projects
in aging that have led to student presentations at national and
local conferences.
- Developed and implemented
the Senior Mentor Program for first year students.
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For more information please contact
Syed M. Ahmed, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, Associate Professor and Director
e-mail:chc@mcw.edu
Center for Healthy Communities
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Post Office Box 26509
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226-0509
Phone: 414/456-8291
Fax: 414/456-6524
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