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IOA Research

IOA Research
The Institute on Aging is on the cutting edge of research focused on our globe's aging population, including best practices in housing and long-term care, planning for age-friendly communities, aging services organizational decision making, and work-life issues and family caregiving.
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Gerontology Students

Gerontology Students
The Institute on Aging offers cross-disciplinary classes in the growing field of gerontology. Both undergraduate and graduate coursework is available, as well as a service-learning opportunity in Nicaragua each year.
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Senior Auditors

Senior Auditors
The Senior Adult Learning Center, run by the Institute on Aging at PSU, offers educational opportunities to Oregon residents age 65+ free of tuition. Our hundreds of senior auditors have enriched their lives with classes in foreign languages, history, art, sociology, and other disciplines.
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Dedicated to enhancing understanding of aging and facilitating opportunities for elders, families, and communities to thrive.

The Institute on Aging at Portland State University gathers some of the top researchers and instructors in the field to provide much-needed education and insight into our aging population.  Aging affects all of us throughout the lifespan: our grandparents, our parents, and ultimately ourselves.  As the global population grows older, we must learn to adapt new methods of livability for our communities, our families, and ourselves.

Aging in the News (links offsite)

Fed Up Officer Says Enough, Starts Senior Outreach - CNN July 2012
Why is the Retirement Age 65? - Mental Floss June 2012
Olympic Torchbearer Completes 41st Triathalon at Age 91 - Today Online June 2012
The Secret to Aging Well – Not Keeping It a Secret! - Vivian Diller, Ph.D. May 2012
Tamae Watanabe, 73-year-old Japanese Woman, Scales Mount Everest - Binaj Gurubacharya May 2012
American men finally closing the longevity gender gap - Bill Briggs May 2012
The Geezer Gallery celebrates Portland's creative class -the senior class, that is - Katy Muldoon February 2012
0 to 100 iPad App Beautifully Gives You the Faces, Advice and Stories of People at Each Stage of Life - April 2011