Fit and Strong! Program Selected for 2008 Healthcare and Aging Award

Congratulations to Dr. Susan Hughes, professor of Community Health Sciences, and her research group. Their Fit and Strong! program has been selected by the Healthcare and Aging Network (HAN) of the American Society on Aging, in collaboration with Pfizer Inc., as one of only six recipients of the 2008 Healthcare and Aging Awards.

The review committee for the Health Care and Aging Award found Fit and Strong! to be innovative with a significant impact on community. The committee strongly believes that the field and practice of healthcare and health promotion is advanced by sharing Fit and Strong! with others in the field.

The Fit and Strong! team will be receiving the award at the NCOA-ASA Aging in America Conference which is being held March Wed. 26 - Sun. 30th at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel and the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC.