AgingMO is a centralized online home for the University of Missouri’s Aging in Place (AIP) program and its related projects. Our unique AIP model allows older adults to receive health care in their preferred place of living. As their care needs increase, residents contract for more care in the same setting, eliminating the need for a move to a more restrictive living environment such as a nursing home. This project, which began in 1996, is a multidisciplinary project including MU’s School of Nursing, College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Social Work, Department of Physical Therapy, Department of Management and Informatics, Biostatistics Group, and Department of Family and Community Medicine, along with outside consultants. We have developed this website to assist you by allowing complete and easy access to the many distinctive aspects of our groundbreaking research.

America’s 75 million aging adults soon will face decisions about where and how to live as they age. Current options for long-term care, including nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, are costly and require seniors to move from place to place. University of Missouri researchers have found that a new strategy for long-term care called Aging in Place (AIP) is less expensive and provides better health outcomes. The AIP model provides services and care to meet residents’ increasing needs to avoid relocation to higher levels of care. AIP includes continuous care management, a combination of personalized health services with nursing care coordination. Click here for an AIP information packet.