The Center on Aging and Health is dedicated to research that will prevent disease and disability and improve the health and well-being of older adults.  It seeks to foster interdisciplinary research and to train the next generations of research leaders essential to important discoveries for prevention and health promotion for an aging population, and to translate these results so that they improve the health status of older adults.   COAH West is currently home to 12 faculty members: two Professors, one Associate Professor, eight Assistant Professors, and one Instructor.

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Drs. Leveille and colleagues examined potential physical and psychological mediators of pain-disability in the Women's Health and Aging Study

Drs. Ostir and colleagues examined interactive effects of depressive symptoms and lower extremity functioning on social participation of disabled older women

Drs. Semba and colleagues determined by recent epidemiological studies that carotenoids are protective against a decline in muscle strength and walking disability among older adults

Drs. Bandeen-Roche and colleagues demonstrate evidence that frailty is a medical syndrome