A Word from the Director About Our Mission
Dr. William R. Markesbery, Director
The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging was established to identify and study problems that directly influence older adults and to improve the quality of their lives through a wide range of research, service, and educational activities.
- Our research mission is focused on age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and other dementing disorders, stroke, and prion diseases. The overall goal is to understand these disorders so that they can be successfully treated and prevented. Considerable research efforts are also directed at understanding normal brain aging.
- The Center's service mission to the community, state, and region includes providing exemplary care for older adults with neurodegenerative diseases and stroke, advising community and state government, healthcare providers and higher education entities concerned with older adults, and to deliver clinical services and health-related educational programs to the Bluegrass African American community.
- Our education mission includes training of healthcare professionals and non-professionals who work with the elderly, training of scientific investigators, educating the community and state about physical and mental disorders of the elderly, providing self enrichment activities for older adults, and emphasizing lifelong growth and development for the elderly.
The programs of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging will improve the quality of life for older Americans in this and future generations.
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