Alberta Centre on Aging
The Alberta Centre on Aging is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. History As a scholarly research center, the Alberta Center on Aging has historically worked to advance front-line research in aging through coordinated interdisciplinary efforts and through organizations with partners. In 1982, the University of Alberta introduced the Centre for Gerontology, which was sponsored by both the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Medicine; the centre was created "to enhance the understanding of the aged individual and of the aging process by mean of the support, encouragement, and facilitation of research in gerontology." The Alberta Centre on Aging began issuing publications in the early 1990s. In 2007, the organization published Aging In Rural Canada, which was an annotated bibliography printed by the University of Alberta Press. In March 2010, the Edmonton Journal announced that the Alberta Centre on Aging was receiving funding cuts from the University of Alberta. Research In 2004, the Alberta Centre on Aging sponsored research from gerontologist Bonnie Dobbs which discussed the impact that aging can have on driving. The Edmonton Journal explained that at the Edmonton Aging Symposium, "Dobbs stressed that it's not older drivers per se who