The guests requested a whole day to study our Geriatrics Center in depth, understanding how the clinical and academic enterprises synergize as they look at developing Functional Aging at the National University Health System, especially as it spans primary to tertiary care. The visitors wanted to meet collectively to study our Geriatrics Center as they plan their Aging Program back home. They will be building a new campus, adjacent to their current tertiary campus, which will focus on intermediate-level care for an aging population, and include an acute hospital, community hospital, nursing home, hospice, diagnostic center, rehabilitation center, and programs dedicated to functional aging, innovation, and educating lay people in the care of the elderly. Throughout the day, our guests toured the East Ann Arbor Geriatrics Clinic, Turner Senior Resource Center, Biogerontology Lab, Neuroscience Lab ACE, PACE, Public Health Research at North Ingalls Building, Program for Positive Aging, Mobility Research Center, and Glacier Hills, where they also did individual site visits, meeting with some of our faculty members and doctors one-on-one.
