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de Tornyay Center Winter 2026 News Round-up

Winter 2026 news from the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging and our collaborators:

  • Congratulations to Oleg Zaslavsky and colleagues for receiving an NIH Grant for their digital VOCALE Frailty digital program, which aims to support older adults with frailty.
  • The Dementia Action Collaborative released a flyer illustrating ways to lower your dementia risk.
  • UW School of Nursing emerita faculty member Marge Batey was featured on the cover of Seattle Parks & Recreation’s Lifelong Recreation guide!
  • Congratulations to PhD candidate and center illustrator Lalipat Phianhasin for receiving a Sigma Small Grant for the “Role of Social Support as a Social Determinant of Health in Functional Status and Cognitive Function among Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Survivors”!
  • The American Academy of Nursing recently put out a position statement on the use of AI, supporting “the responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) as a transformative force in health care to support, rather than supplant human wisdom and nursing clinical judgment.”