Garrison Institute on Aging: A New Hope for Elderly Individuals and Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

P. Hemachandra Reddy, Joan Blackmon, Veronica Molinar-Lopez, Clay Ament, Maria Manczak, Ramesh Kandimalla, Xianglin Yin, Akhilesh Pandey, Chandra Sekhar Kuruva, Rui Wang, David Fry, Carrah Osborn, Kathleen Stonum, Kandi Quesada, Ruben Gonzales, Annette Boles

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Abstract

The Garrison Institute on Aging (GIA) is an established institute within Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, whose mission is to promote healthy aging through cutting-edge research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other diseases of aging through innovative educational opportunities for students, clinicians, researchers, health care professionals, and the public. The GIA has multiple programs, including both research and education on healthy aging and AD, community outreach, caregiving, the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Healthy Lubbock, the GIA Brain Bank, healthy aging seminars, research seminars, and collaborations and scholarships. The GIA programs connect basic and clinical researchers and health care professionals, and provide a unique environment to help our growing elderly population and patients with AD and their families.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)547-555
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Alzheimer's Disease
Volume48
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 9 2015
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Geriatrics and Gerontology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

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