Welcome to the web page of the Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging is a world leader in creating and using knowledge that will optimize function, enhance management of illness, and improve health for all older adults. The Center involves an interdisciplinary community of more than 220 faculty members and staff working together to promote the health and well-being of older persons and their families through research, education, community programs, and specialty patient care.

Career development and education opportunities are offered to undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate trainees, health care professional students, and practitioners. These programs help prepare trainees and practitioners in multiple disciplines for research, education, or service careers related to gerontology and geriatrics. The Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging offers AgeWell.com as an educational resource that provides information that will be useful to all members of the community.

The Center encourages and coordinates the activities of the multiple disciplines represented by the UAB schools of business, dentistry, education, engineering, health professions, medicine, nursing, optometry, public health, and the college of arts and sciences to fulfill its mission.

Through the integration and coordination of these activities, the Center is adding years to life and life to years. We are creating and using knowledge that will change your world!

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