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We’re dedicated to improving how people age

More people are helping aging loved ones manage complex health conditions. In the U.S., a quarter of adult children provide care or assistance to their parents. Rural areas are aging more rapidly, with fewer resources to address unique challenges.

We need a team effort to support the healthy aging of our communities.

That’s why we established the Center for Aging Research and Education in 2011. CARE:

  • Prepares healthcare professionals and direct care staff to work with older adults
  • Fosters inter-professional and campus-community collaborations to improve older adults’ quality of life
  • Translates and delivers nursing expertise to family members, community organizations, and housing and service providers, to make it easier for everyone to support older adult health

Through nursing leadership, discovery, education and practice, CARE improves the health and well-being of older adults.

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Rural Healthy Aging

Toolkit with guidelines and resources for conducting assessments and choosing strategies to support rural aging-in-place

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Dementia Friendly Toolkit

Short training videos and role play simulations to build communication and advocacy skills to engage people with dementia

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GERI-Res

An innovative online residency tailored to nursing in the long term care practice environment

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Healthy Aging Manuals

Resources to help direct care workers and others support the healthy aging of adults with and without intellectual disability

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Newsletter

  • When Purple is a Red Flag: Preventing Pressure Injuries in Patients with Dark Skin

  • Necessary but Complicated: The Push for Nursing Home Reform

  • The Center for Aging Research and Education: Improving How We Age

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  • Spring semester – Nursing 511 “Community supports for people with dementia” is a service-learning course open to all majors, undergraduate and graduate

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  • Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE)
    UW-Madison School of Nursing
    4149 Signe Skott Cooper Hall
    701 Highland Avenue
    Madison, WI 53705
  • Email: care@son.wisc.edu
  • Phone: (608) 265-4330
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