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.”
- A recent UW Bothell School of Nursing & Health Studies story highlighted visiting scholar Sayaka Suzuki’s trip to the UW, including the UW Healthy Aging Forum!
- Basia Belza was a co-author on the recent PLOS One article, ” Expanding rural access to chronic pain care through nurse care management: A hybrid type I effectiveness-implementation trial protocol”.
- UW School of Nursing BSN student Julia Lee published an editorial in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing titled “The Lifespan Impact of Ageism Through the Lens of Self-Perceptions of Aging”.