Chronicles in Aging is the Interdisciplinary Center on Aging's electronic newsletter.

Winter/Spring 2009

Inside this issue:

• research by Vicki S. Conn, PhD, RN, FAAN; and Todd M. Ruppar, MSN(R), APRN, BC; on physical activity among chronically ill aging adults;

• an introduction to Center Fellow Angela Curl, PhD, MSW;

• updates about READ grant recipients, fall seminars, Rusk Rehabilitation Center and the Quality Improvement Program for Missouri;

• a look at the impact of the MU School of Medicine’s $1.9 million geriatrics education grant from the Reynolds Foundation; and

• an article by Marian A. Minor, PT, PhD, on how to increase activity among patients with osteoarthritis.

Previous Issues

Summer 2008

This issue features research by the MU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program, the winners of the 2008 Reflections of Aging Photo Contest, and a guest editorial by American Medical Directors Association President Charles Crecilius.