On behalf of adults midlife and older, an important aspect of our mission is to contribute to advancing current best practices in housing, health care, education, social engagement, and spiritual and personal growth.
Within the paradigm of whole-person wellness, we focus on eight dimensions of well-being: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, vocational, spiritual, environmental, and financial. In particular, we strive to pinpoint and understand individual and collective strengths in each of these dimensions as individuals mature. We also focus on how older persons leverage these strengths for their own health and wellness.
Within this domain, we invest in several programmatic lines of inquiry, including but not limited to vital living, cognitive health and wellness, fitness and function risk reduction and avoidance of frailty, and many other options for disease and disease-related disability prevention in later life.
We aspire to not only better understand and address the threats to healthy aging but to expand our appreciation for positive, productive aging. We do this through mutually beneficial collaborations with hundreds of mature adults who provide their informed consent to participate in structured studies with us. We are indebted to each of them for their cooperation and invaluable teachings.
To learn more about this aspect of our research, please review the information below:
VIVA!: A model for Whole-Person Wellness Screening
Fitness and Function for Falls and Fractures Risk Reduction
