Successful aging is about living where you want to live, doing what you want to do and enjoying a full life. It’s about preventing future illness and improving quality of life with small changes that bring big rewards.

The Home Instead Center for Successful Aging at the University of Nebraska Medical Center offers all this and more and will be like nothing ever seen in our state. It will provide a myriad of health and wellness services geared to older adults—a one-stop shop for seniors.

The new facility was dedicated on July 26, 2010, and is scheduled to open to the public on Sept. 13, 2010.

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The partnership between UNMC and Home Instead Senior Care reflects these goals, as each strives to help seniors live healthier, happier lives.

“We have the same global goal in mind—to help people live life to the fullest,” said Jane Potter, M.D., professor and chief of the division of geriatrics and gerontology at UNMC. “That is the spirit of what we do in geriatric medicine, and it is the same focus at Home Instead Senior Care.”

The $10.2 million facility, funded entirely by private donations to the University of Nebraska Foundation, creates a centralized location for geriatric medicine and psychiatry on the UNMC campus.

Services offered at the Home Instead Center include geriatric medicine, psychiatry and access to clinical trials involving geriatric-specific disorders.

It also includes a wellness clinic for health screenings and nutrition services and a Community Education and Outreach Center that houses a fully equipped fitness and exercise area.

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“The first wave of baby boomers turns 65 next year and wants to stay independent in their own homes as long as they can,” said Sharon Brangman, president of the American Geriatrics Society. “Programs that support wellness and healthy aging are very important. A center like this is really looking at seniors and what their needs are. It’s innovative, and I hope it becomes a model for other parts of the country.”

The building is named for Home Instead Senior Care, the world’s largest private provider of non-medical home care to seniors. Home Instead was co-founded by the center’s principal donors, Lori and Paul Hogan, graduates of the University of Nebraska.

“We share a common goal with UNMC, Dr. Potter and her team—to help people age more successfully,” said Paul Hogan, founder and chairman of Home Instead Senior Care. “That’s why this distinct relationship between Home Instead and UNMC holds such tremendous promise. We are confident that by working together we can find solutions to truly help seniors age more successfully.”

Other benefactors who contributed to the building project include the Kinman-Oldfield Family Foundation of Lincoln, and Ramona and Deryl Hamann of Omaha. Virginia Grissom and the late Dr. Robert Grissom of Omaha provided a major gift in support of the center’s wellness programs.

Planning and private funding of the Home Instead Center for Successful Aging is a priority of the Campaign for Nebraska: Unlimited Possibilities. For more information about meaningful ways to support this program, contact Amy Volk at the University of Nebraska Foundation at 402-502-4112 or by e-mail at avolk@nufoundation.org.

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