Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation

A community, state, tribal nation, country, and world where every individual can achieve their life goals while aging.

We are a proud member of the University of Minnesota Consortium on Aging.

Upcoming Events

March and April 2024
  • Monday, 4/1, 10:30 AM CST: Aging Work Group, monthly meeting
  • Monday, 4/1, 3 PM CST: AD/ADRD SIG, April meeting
  • Wednesday, 4/2, 12 PM noon CST: Early Life Adversity, Stress, & Trauma: Impact on Health in Later Life and the Buffering Effects of Resilience Resource Special Interest Group meeting
  • Thursday, 4/4, 10 AM CST: Nursing Home/Senior Care SIG, April meeting
  • Monday, 4/15, 2 PM CST: Idea Hatching Workshop

Email chai@umn.edu for more information.

View a public calendar of aging events.

To add an aging-related event to the public calendar, please complete the form or contact: chai@umn.edu.

Center Spotlight

Rajean Moone, Ph.D., LNHA, LALD, FGSA

Each month CHAI likes to recognize and celebrate its Members, Community Partners, and Ambassadors.This month we are featuring Rajean Moone, PhD, CHAI’s Associate Director of Policy. Rajean’s professional career is dedicated to eliminating ageism and working on age-friendly initiatives that support the inclusion of older adults in society. In the past Rajean worked with the state unit on aging, area agencies on aging, and Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging. He aided in the founding of Training to Serve (LGBTQ non-profit), the Minnesota Diverse Elders Coalition, and Finish Strong Funders Network for Aging Services. Academically, Rajean holds a BA in Psychology, a MS degree in Gerontology, a PhD in Social Work, and a MN nursing home administrator’s license and assisted living director license. Rajean joined academia full time in 2018 in a position spread across the University of Minnesota campus with roles in the College of Continuing and Professional Studies, Center for Healthy Aging & Innovation (CHAI), and MN Northstar GWEP. Rajean is appointed to the Governor’s Council on an Age-Friendly Minnesota. He started in CHAI as the Associate Director of Education where he relaunched the Aging Studies Interdisciplinary Group organization for students studying aging, Graduate Minor in Gerontology, professional workshop series, and initiated the Age-Friendly University collaboration. He currently serves as CHAI’s Associate Director for Policy and serves as the lead for the Age-Friendly University Council. He serves on the board of the MN Association of Geriatrics Inspired Clinicians, Care Providers of Minnesota Foundation, Stevens Square Foundation, and FamilyMeans. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, a lifetime member of the Minnesota Gerontological Society, Hartford Fellow, McNair Scholar, and a Health and Aging Policy Fellow.

Check out Rajean’s news and events page here.

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