The “MTSU On the Record” radio program recently set aside a few minutes to explore the aging process and a university-sponsored conference focusing on it.

Host Gina Logue’s interview with Dr. Deborah Lee, holder of the NHC Chair of Excellence in Nursing, first aired May 31 on WMOT-FM Roots Radio 89.5 and www.wmot.org.

You can listen to their conversation via the SoundCloud link below.

Lee is director of MTSU’s inaugural Positive Aging Consortium, a one-day conference set from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 10, at the Miller Education Center on Bell Street.

The event is designed to examine societal attitudes toward aging and how they affect older adults’ ability to live their most productive, fulfilling lives.

“We’re not really thinking of this period of life where it’s a decline, and you’re either out cruising the Mediterranean or you’re living in decreased health and things are not good,” Lee said. “The reality is that most people live in between.”

Topics to be examined by MTSU faculty members include maintaining healthy brain activity, improving physical condition, financial decisions and nutritious meals.

For more information on the consortium, go to www.mtsu.edu/pac or contact Lee at deborah.lee@mtsu.edu.

To hear previous “MTSU On the Record” programs, visit the searchable “Audio Clips” archives at www.mtsunews.com.

For more information about the radio program, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.

— Gina K. Logue (gina.logue@mtsu.edu)