Pictured: The inaugural class of Mini-Medical School Graduates in 2014
Hawai’i residents who are ready to learn how to thrive in act two of their lives will spend the next six Saturdays on campus to listen and learn in the Fall 2016 Class of the Mini-Medical School for Healthy Aging.
A distinguished panel of inter-disciplinary speakers will present lectures featuring the latest information and research into aging on topics such as preventing falls, joint care and maintenance, safe practices involving medicines, maneuvering through life’s transitions, sleeping through the ages, coping with the loss of a partner and palliative care.
The subject matter, Healthy Aging, is important because, by the end of the next decade, 1/3 of Hawaiʻi residents will be 65 years or older. The Mini Medical School on Healthy Aging was developed by Dr. Virginia Hinshaw, UH Mānoa Chancellor Emeritus and John A. Burns School of Medicine Professor of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology.
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