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AppWell has released its 2024–2025 Annual Report, highlighting a year of record impact and growth. This year, AppWell served 7,298 individuals across 37,213 touchpoints, secured 16 grants totaling $3.46 million, and received support from 104 donors contributing $249,269. Program highlights include the expansion of Aging Well—with increased participation …

The Appalachian Institute for Health and Wellness is sharing its 2023-2024 annual report. Learn more about the institute’s outreach and impact in the communities it serves in the 2024 annual report. 

Dr. Leah Hamilton continues her research on guaranteed income allocations with a 4 year, $676,000 grant from the Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund. This project is a phase two of her prior work on “In Your Hands.” Building on the success …

Dr. Caroline Smith Receives Grant from Office of Naval Research

App State has received a $481,378 grant from the National Council on Aging to improve vaccination rates among older adults in 10 Western North Carolina counties. Partnering with High Country Community Health, App State’s Interprofessional Clinic is hosting free flu …

Older adults are becoming less likely to receive their influenza and COVID-19 vaccines and more likely to die from these diseases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While life-saving vaccines are available, research shows COVID-19 vaccine rates …

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded three faculty members from Appalachian State University’s Beaver College of Health Sciences and College of Arts and Sciences a four-year grant totaling $549,290.

Thanks to more than a half-million dollars in federal funding, App State is partnering with the High Country Area Agency on Aging to safeguard the independence of older adults in North Carolina’s High Country — by expanding and implementing falls …