The 2008 Second Annual National Positive Aging Conference on November 12, 2008 Achieving Purpose, Meaning and Vitality in the Second Half of Life
With a goal towards advancing a national conversation around positive aging, this day-long conference will share important resources to explore purpose, meaning and vitality in the second half of life. Broadcast live from the University of Minnesota, world-renowned experts and best-selling authors will address the importance of purpose and meaning in later life as well as lessons for longevity learned from regions around the world.
Conference information and registration
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AHC Office of Communications
612-624-5100
420 Delaware St. S.E.
MMC 735
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Nearly 25 percent of American women have been physically or sexually abused by a spouse or partner at some point in their lives, according to studies. So, whether we are aware of it or not, it is likely that domestic violence has affected our lives or the life of someone we know.
Domestic violence refers to a range of abusive behaviors that include physical, psychological, or sexual harm. Violence occurs in families of many different backgrounds regardless of income, education, culture, or sexual preference.
Nancy C. Raymond, M.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She also is the director of the Deborah E. Powell Center for Women’s Health.
Read more about domestic violence
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The University of Minnesota Medical School’s Program of Mortuary Science has been educating funeral directors for 100 years. What started in 1908 as a six-week, $45 program with 16 graduates has now evolved into a four-year bachelor's of science program that graduates more than 30 students each year and educates nearly 90 percent of the funeral directors in Minnesota.