Healthy aging in the time of COVID: Conversations with IHPI experts

 As part of an ongoing series of webinars intended to help members of the public connect with U-M experts virtually during the time of COVID-19, several IHPI members discussed topics and research findings related to healthy aging in two events in September 2020. 

The first, hosted by IHPI Director John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., focused on healthy aging for body and brain, and drew on findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging that's based at IHPI, as well as other work by our members.

It featured: 

Dr. Preeti Malani, director of the National Poll on Healthy Aging and a professor of internal medicine

Dr. Julie Bynum, director of the Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer's and a professor of internal medicine

Dr. Donovan Maust, associate director of geriatric psychiatry and associate professor of psychiatry

Watch the conversation here: 

For more information on the National Poll on Healthy Aging, and to sign up to receive emails each time a new poll report is issued, visit https://www.healthyagingpoll.org/

The other webinar, featuring IHPI member and nursing home infection prevention researcher Lona Mody, M.D., M.Sc., and her colleagues from the Department of Internal Medicine at Michigan Medicine, touched on additional issues regarding COVID-19 and older adults.

Watch it here: