UM SPH Academic Courses

EPID677 Epidemiology of Aging

Fall term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Haan, Mary

Description: This course will address the epidemiology of aging from a public health perspective with a specific focus on epidemiologic methods and their application to the study of function and disease in the elderly. These will include demography, biology of aging, models of aging, functional status, genetics of longevity, cognition and dementias, social factors, sensory changes. Group projects will involve small scale data collection on elderly individuals or analysis of existing data on aging. The project will emphasize understanding of some aspect of epidemiologic methods.

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