LEXINGTON — The Pat Summitt Foundation presented a $25,000 grant to the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) during the UK women’s basketball game against Auburn University on
The Pat Summitt Foundation presented a $25,000 grant to the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging during the UK women’s basketball game against Auburn on Thursday evening. The center is one of the nation’s top centers on aging, with a goal to preserve brain health and slow the progression of dementia. It focuses on research, education, outreach and clinical programs to promote healthy brain aging for adults.
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The University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) will host its 12th annual Markesbery Symposium on Aging and Dementia this weekend. The event is named in honor and memory of the late William R. Markesbery, M.D., founding director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Markesbery's legacy of groundbreaking research formed the bedrock for the quest by researchers at the SBCoA to understand and treat Alzheimer's disease and to improve the quality of life of older adults.