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Message from Dr. Carmel Dyer and Dr. Sharon Ostwald

Promoting healthy and meaningful aging...      

We are delighted to announce the establishment of the university-wide Consortium on Aging. The Consortium on Aging allows us to leverage the existing strengths of the many schools and centers of UTHealth as we focus our efforts on addressing the health care needs of older adults. Our mission includes comprehensive care for older adults and their caregivers; education of future health care providers, the current workforce and the community at large; and research to expand our understanding of aging.

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We invite your collaboration and look forward to your support in our efforts to promote healthy and meaningful aging.

Please watch this page for news and events as the Consortium on Aging grows and develops.

Pilot Grants Funded

Through a generous gift from the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Foundation, the Consortium on Aging has been able to offer pilot grants to junior faculty with an interest in aging studies. In 2011 the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Geriatric Studies for Junior Faculty Program awarded four grants. Read more...

Consortium on Aging News

Certificate programs in geriatrics and gerontology offered through Houston Geriatric Education Center. Read more....

Consortium on Aging accepting applications for membership appointments. Read more....

Updated Beers criteria published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Read more....

Funds for pilot studies announced. Read more....