About WyCOA

Our Mission: The mission of the Wyoming Center on Aging is to optimize the health and wellbeing of Wyoming's older residents and their caregivers through interagency partnerships, basic and applied research, community education, and clinical training and services.

 

Our Vision: The Wyoming Center on Aging is a visionary and innovative collaboration that proactively responds to the needs of older Wyoming residents while harnessing the strengths of our communities and honoring the legacy of our elders.

About WyCOA

The establishment of the Wyoming Center on Aging (WyCOA) is a result of the efforts of the staff, leadership, and Advisory Council to the Wyoming Geriatric Education Center and the College of Health Sciences at the University of Wyoming. Several years were spent designing, planning, and developing this new center. The need for a Wyoming Center on Aging is great. Wyoming is one of the most rapidly aging states, and by 2030 is projected to be the state with the highest concentration of individuals over 85. The benefits of a Center on Aging include connecting Wyoming residents, researchers, service providers, and educators, as well as fostering innovative aging research, training health care providers, disseminating evidence-based practices, and serving as a resource for older adults and their family caregivers.

 

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A HRSA Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program

The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded the $5 million of funding through the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP).  The Wyoming GWEP will educate and train the primary care and geriatrics workforces and other appropriate specialties to provide age-friendly and dementia-friendly care for older adults. “Age-friendly healthcare is a growing movement that helps to provide the best care possible by focusing on what matters to older adults, reducing potential harms that older adults face more than others, and ensuring that older adults and caregivers are engaged in and satisfied with their care,” said Dr. Carrico.  “Programs like the GWEP allow Wyoming to use evidence-based and innovative strategies to ready its workforce to meet the needs of our growing aging population,” said McKibbin. 

FOCUS: Age-Friendly Health Systems.  The Wyoming Center on Aging employs an Age-Friendly approach.  The 4M's of Age-Friendly Care (i.e., What Matters to Older Adults, Medications, Mentation, and Mobility) are integrated throughout service provision, workforce training, clinical research, and program evaluation.  Learn more about Age-Friendly and our efforts!

 

healthier wyoming

In partnership with the Wyoming Department of Health Chronic Disease Prevention Program, WyCOA's Healthier Wyoming Iniatitive works to guide public health professionals and communities in taking action, advancing health equity, and reversing the epidemic of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.  The goal of the Healthier Wyoming website is to empower all Wyoming residents to take charge of their health by providing a comprehensive directory of chronic disease prevention and management resources throughout the state.

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