18th Annual Rocky Mountain Geriatrics Conference 

(SOLD OUT)

March 28-29, 2022

CU Anschutz Medical Campus has become the First Age-Friendly University Designated Campus in the CU System

Designation recognizes commitment to age inclusivity, promoting more equitable education, research opportunities

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has been designated an Age-Friendly University for its leadership in research, education and care for older adults.

The recognition is part of an international effort endorsed by the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) to create more programs, policies and opportunities for an aging population.

CU Anschutz is the first academic medical campus in Colorado to become a member of the Age-Friendly University Global Network, joining a small group of designated academic medical campuses worldwide.  CU Anschutz becomes the first campus in the CU System to receive the Age-Friendly University Designation, as well as #87 in the world and #4 academic medical campus in the world to receive the designation.

CU Anschutz Multidisciplinary Center on Aging (MCoA) announces a new Health Care Navigator Training program to be housed in the MCoA

The Health Care Navigator Training Program, formerly offered by ExperienceEngaged, was one of three Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment-recognized Health Navigator training programs and the only such program that explicitly focuses on engaging and training older adults.  The 7-week program trains older adults interested in both volunteer or paid positions such as the new Older Adult Research Specialist (OAR) position available later this spring.  OAR participants are trained in both Health Care Navigator and Research Specialist curriculum, and upon completion become a valuable member of CU Anschutz health care and research teams. 

For more information and to attend the first informational session to be held in February please contact:
Jodi Waterhouse, Jodi.waterhouse@cuanschutz.edu Kady Nearing, Kathryn.nearing@cuanschutz.edu

Spring 2022 Webinar Series— TBD

Thursdays, 2-3pm (Mountain Time) Schedule TBA

For more information please email: Jodi.waterhouse@cuanschutz.edu

In The Community 

COAST-IT – Connecting Older Adults to Students Through Interprofessional Telecare
We need older adult participants!

Click below for more information to sign up to have a CU Anschutz student phone partner

Brief Explanation of the Project

Older adults have been significantly impacted by loneliness and social isolation during COVID-19. At the same time, health professional students in their first 1-2 years of training have lost opportunities to have interactions with older adult patients. The team at CU Anschutz, led by the CU Anschutz Multidisciplinary Center on Aging, hosts a social isolation outreach program where students from either the CU Anschutz pharmacy, nurse practitioner or dental medical school programs will pair with an older adult to have weekly to bi-monthly social phone calls. 

These calls are meant to help older adult’s combat loneliness and the feeling of isolation that so many have experienced. The older adults, through these phone conversations, will help students in their future clinical practices improve their communication skills and better serve their older adult patients.  For many of these students, older adults will be their largest patient population, so working on honing their communication skills is extremely important to become better clinicians. If you are interested in participating yourself as an older adult in this program or are a service provider of a community of older adults and interested in having your residents participate please contact Jodi.waterhouse@cuanschutz.edu

Aging in Colorado