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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 App State Health, Physical Education, and Coaching Program is pleased to continue offering the Home School Physical Education (PE) Program for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Appalachian State University’s Blue Cross NC Institute for Health and Human Services (IHHS) will kick off its annual Aging Academy Speaker Series on Friday, Sept. 22, at 3 p.m. in Levine Hall room 103.

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.

Dr. Gavin Colquitt, a researcher specializing in disability health and movement disorders such as cerebral palsy, is the new executive director of Appalachian State University’s Blue Cross NC Institute for Health and Human Services (IHHS), and joins the university as a professor …

Avery High School graduate Kendall Clark has been named the recipient of the 2023 Girls on the Run of the High Country scholarship and will receive $1,000 toward her first year of tuition at Appalachian State University.

An upcoming innovative day camp opportunity for youngsters on the Autism Spectrum, or with similar disorders, takes place in Boone for one weekend in the spring and one in the fall. And that spring weekend — much like the ones …

Appalachian State University’s Blue Cross NC Institute for Health and Human Services (IHHS) is partnering with the High Country Area Agency on Aging and others to offer new support groups for community members: a stroke and traumatic brain injury support group and a …

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 …