Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences and JPS Health Network hosted events on healthy aging

AARP President Jennie Chin-Hansen

Fort Worth, TX

4/20/2009

TCU's Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences, JPS Health Network and TCU’s Center for Healthy Aging hosted a symposium on "Use it or Lose it: Creative Partnerships for Healthy Aging” featuring AARP President Jennie Chin-Hansen. The symposium was held on Tuesday, April 14 on the TCU campus.

Jennie Chin Hansen, R.N., M.S., F.A.A.N., of San Francisco, is the current AARP president and teaches nursing at San Francisco State University. She holds an appointment as Senior Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco's Center for the Health Professions and consults with various foundations. She transitioned to teaching in 2005 after nearly 25 years as executive director of On Lok, Inc., a nonprofit family of organizations providing integrated and comprehensive primary and long-term care community based services in San Francisco. On Lok was the prototype for PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), which was signed into federal legislation in 1997 making this Medicare/Medicaid program available to all 50 states.

Topics for the symposium included: “Hot Topics in Healthy Aging” (fitness and fall prevention and safe medication use); and “Care Coordination for Healthy Aging” (proactive end-of-life care and cross cultural health care). Seminar presenters included nursing and elder care professionals.

"We were excited to have a nurse researcher and professional of Ms. Hansen’s caliber present her work for our keynote and community presentation," said Dr. Paulette Burns, dean of TCU's Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences. "The entire symposium was complete with healthcare professionals covering a variety of topics pertaining to timely trends in elder care. As our population grows older, these issues become more important to their care and health."

Click here to visit a video from the community presentation.