Vanderbilt Center for Community Health Solutions

 The Vanderbilt Coalition for Healthy Aging

 
Programs

Companionship Outreach 

The VCHA provides access to social engagement and companionship because a healthy senior is engaged and active in the community.  Programs include Comfort Callers, which pairs individuals with lonely or home-bound seniors for weekly calls, and structured one-hour social activities at senior residence towers.

Senior Women's Breast Health Initiative  

The Senior Women’s Breast Health Initiative educates seniors about breast cancer risk, breast self-exams, and affordable mammograms.  This is achieved through workshops that stress early breast cancer detection in rural Nashville-area communities.  

Senior Fitness & Nutrition 

The VCHA brings free nutrition classes and seated, low-impact, arthritis-sensitive exercise sessions to 16 Nashville senior centers and housing facilities.  Instructors help seniors create and maintain wellness goals.

Young Women's Health

The VCHA leads age-appropriate health and breast cancer discussions in Middle Tennessee middle schools, high schools, universities, and youth programs.  Breast health and body awareness workshops; cervical and ovarian health and menstruation education; and other activities promote overall health.