Areas of Interest: Research and Development

• Aging Services Technologies
• Biopsychosocial Assessments and Interventions (focusing on diverse topics from Vaccine Trials to Effects of Social and Civic Engagement)
• Community Mobility, specifically Balance and Functional Mobility and Safe Driving
• Environments for Aging
• Health and Wellness, with an emphasis upon Primary Prevention, Comprehensive Wellness Screenings, Fitness and Function, Cognitive Health, and Wellness
• Innovation for Quality Improvement
• Long-Term Care Reform
• Population-Based Research
• Workforce Issues

Within these areas, we pursue more specific lines of inquiry through various methodologies. These can be characterized as:

• Outcomes Trials (Evaluation of Structured Interventions)
• Multivariate Assessments
• Survey Research with Defined Subpopulations
• Epidemiology (Population-Based Research)
• Critical Syntheses (e.g., Meta-Analyses)
• Qualitative Methods
• Longitudinal Study