The MU Interdisciplinary Center on Aging brings together the existing critical mass of University of Missouri health providers, researchers and educators who are focused on the needs of the rapidly growing older adult population.

Research

• Monthly research seminars on aging
  
• Interdisciplinary research grant funding program to assist junior faculty in starting their research portfolios
  

Education

• Graduate courses on physical and psychosocial function and independence among older adults
• Graduate minor in gerontology
  
• Programs in geriatrics in the medical school
  

Collaboration in the Community

• Aging-in-place living, teaching and research retirement facility
• Geriatric assessment clinic
  
• Network of academic adult day care centers
• Leadership is provided in the community through a coalition of directors of aging-related agencies and organizations