ATSU Aging Studies Project continues to better communities
Posted: May 18, 2015
A.T. Still University’s (ATSU) Aging Studies Project worked alongside other ATSU faculty, staff, and students for the ATSU’s inaugural Senior Health Fair. The University also partnered with local community partners including Northeast Missouri Area Health Education Centers, Woodward Audiology, and International Eyecare Center of Kirksville.
The Senior Health Fair provided the following screening/education stations: arthritis exercises, basic first aid, blood glucose screening, emergency contact tips, expired prescription disposal, hands on CPR training, health history, hearing tests and hearing aid assistance, home safety and fall info, nutrition, oral exam and denture care, osteopathic manipulative medicine, physical exams and vitals, skin cancer screening, and vision screening. The Senior Health Fair was developed as a companion service project for the Annual Lecture on Aging.
ATSU’s 11th annual Lecture on Aging was also a success. The featured speaker this year was Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD. She is a professor emeritus and professor of research in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine (UCSD), director of the Gillen Sleep and Chronomedicine Research Center, and director of education at the Sleep Medicine Center at UCSD.
ATSU’s Aging Studies Project will continue to develop both initiatives in the future to help better all the communities involved.