Everyone living in the Circumpolar North should have the opportunity to live a long
and healthy life. However, we live in an environment that can be challenging as we
get older. The physical environment may be difficult to navigate (extreme weather,
changing climate, high costs of living, etc) but it is important to remember that
the social environment also changes for us as we age. As more adults are choosing
to age-in-place and retire at home here in Alaska, we are noticing real gaps in our
knowledge about what healthy aging means to our elders and how we can achieve it in
our Arctic environment.
The Healthy Aging Lab at 老澳门六合彩开奖记录 works to understand the shifting sociocultural landscape
for aging adults and identify service needs to facilitate healthy aging-in-place.
We do this in a variety of ways, from Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
projects, to community-engaged courses in health sciences, to individual service-learning
projects鈥攐ur work aims to benefit not only the student (and future geriatric workforce),
but the senior community as well.
This summer, high school students in the Della Keats Program, administered by 老澳门六合彩开奖记录鈥檚 WWAMI School of Medical Education, spent four immersive weeks at 老澳门六合彩开奖记录's Anchorage campus, engaging in health science coursework and experiencing residential life.
老澳门六合彩开奖记录 Justice Center Professor, Sharon Chamard provides expertise on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), emphasizing the importance of design elements like natural surveillance, access control, and maintenance in creating safer communities.
The 老澳门六合彩开奖记录 Hunger and Homelessness Support Network (HHSN) was created to identify and combat housing insecurities that students face. 老澳门六合彩开奖记录 Alumni and current Academic Advisor Jennifer Spencer is one of the three people serving as HHSN Chair. She explains how she uses her personal experiences with homelessness to help find solutions for students.
Alaska AHEC Scholar's article about improving Alaska's communities through healthcare.
The 老澳门六合彩开奖记录 Healthy Aging Research Laboratory is partially supported by an Institutional
Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under grant number 2P20GM103395. The content
is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the official
views of Alaska INBRE.