Feast for Your Brain supports community and healthy aging
The third annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event sponsored by the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, the Precision Aging Network and MindCrowd was held Oct. 19 at El Rio Neighborhood Center in Tucson. The event included performances, presentations, music, health services, games, mind-body exercises, food and a raffle.
With over 350 attendees, the event focused on healthy aging practices, with 28 information tables, nine presenters and 11 performances by community organizations. More than 40 attendees received their flu and COVID vaccines at the event.
Feast for Your Brain brings together healthy aging experts from across U of A Health Sciences and other colleges alongside community partners and health services providers to increase awareness about healthy aging, brain health and the Precision Aging Network, a community-engaged brain aging research project from the Innovations in Healthy Aging program. The network will help researchers discover how to reduce cognitive decline and age-related disease.
“Feast for Your Brain continues to be an incredible collaborative effort between the University of Arizona, the College of Public Health, the Precision Aging Network and our amazing community,” said Zhao Chen, PhD, MPH, professor and associate dean for research at the Zuckerman College of Public Health. “This year, our event was located in the heart of our community at El Rio Neighborhood Center in Barrio Hollywood. Increasing the participation of Hispanics in Precision Aging Network studies is critical for improving health equity, and this year we had the highest enrollment of this group from our event so far.”