de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging News
de Tornyay Center Winter 2026 News Round-up
March 16, 2026
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…
Suah Park Spotlight
March 16, 2026
Suah Park is a PhD in Nursing Science candidate and one of the de Tornyay Center’s 2025-2026 Healthy Aging Scholars. Her faculty mentor is Eeeseung Byun, and her scholarship project is titled, “Socio-contextual, Physical, and Psychological Factors Associated with Sleep Disturbances Among Korean Immigrant Older Adults: A Mixed Methods Study”. What made you want to…
Julia Lee Scholar Spotlight
March 16, 2026
Julia Lee is a BSN student and the center’s 2025-2026 Germain Krysan Endowed Scholar. Her mentors are Basia Belza and Sarah McKiddy, and her scholarship project is on, “Incorporating Dementia-Inclusive Practices to Music-Based Memory Loss Programming in a Cross-Sector Partnership”. Why did you choose to go into nursing? Back in high school, I was in…
UW Healthy Aging Forum
March 5, 2026
Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to the success of the UW Healthy Aging Forum. We appreciate your participation. There was an incredible amount of positive energy and rich connections at the forum. For anyone who did not have a chance to complete the paper evaluation, you can find the digital evaluation here…
Congratulations to Inthira Roopsawang
December 8, 2025
Congratulations to former de Tornyay Center scholar Inthira Roopsawang for receiving a second-place research award at the Second International Nursing Research Conference for her work on, ""Frailty measurements in hospitalised orthopaedic populations age 65 and older: A scoping review"! "I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Dr. Oleg, Dr. Basia, and Dr. Hilaire,…
Scholar Spotlight: Yuni Chung
November 25, 2025
Yuni Chung is a UW School of Nursing PhD in Nursing Science student and one of the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging’s predoctoral scholars. What drew you to nursing? When I was a middle school student, my grandmother developed Parkinson's disease. She needed assistance, so I was responsible for helping her with activities of…