Aging…

Older adults over 85 who regularly do both aerobic and strength-training exercises scored higher on cognitive tests than those who are sedentary or only do cardio exercise.

Alyssa Falise, Christian McLaren and Shangchen Song were awarded 2023 Leighton E. Cluff Awards for Aging Research.

The project will employ a coaching strategy to help health care providers  in hospitals limit both patient falls and the use of bed alarms.

Research could provide a path for more targeted future interventions, such as non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation.

Increasing moderate-intensity exercise in older adults led to little reduction in the overall time they spent in sedentary activity.

Dr. Woods is Assistant Director of the Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory (CAM) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. He is also the Director of the Neurophysiology and Neuromodulation Research Core in the CAM. Dr. Woods’ research focuses on discovery and application of…

In a study of older adults who completed cognitive tasks while cycling on a stationary bike, Dr. Lori Altmann and fellow researchers found that participants’ cycling speed improved with no cost to their cognitive performance.

Dr. Marsiske’s research investigates the impact of cognitive aging on adults’ everyday functioning, with a particular emphasis on the development and evaluation of interventions (cognitive training, mental and physical exercise) to maintain and improve late life cognition. Dr. Marsiske is also strongly connected with the University of Florida’s Institute on…

Dr. Shechtman’s research is in the area of measurement, specifically examining reliability and validity of various assessments in two major arenas, grip strength and driving. One focus is on how grip strength and sincerity of effort testing are affected by musculoskeletal disorders due to pain and motor control changes. The…

Dr. Romero utilizes modern test theory methodologies to develop, evaluate, and improve clinical/research outcome measures and patient reported outcome measures. He is particularly interested in rehabilitation outcome measures to evaluate patients with mobility deficits leading to falls. Dr. Romero utilizes Item Response Theory to evaluate existing instruments and develop new…