Colloquium Series

Spring 2012 Research Seminar Series

- organized by Hallie Ford Center and Center for Healthy Aging Research

12:00- 1:00 pm,  Hallie Ford Center 115 see details

  • April 27th  | Dr. Elena Andresen  | Epidemiology of Aging: The St. Louis African American Health Cohort 

  • May 11th  | Dr. Michelle Odden  | Rethinking Cardiovascular Risk in Older Adults

  • May 22   | Dr. Simon Driver  | Promoting Physical Activity in Individual with a Disability: Current Issues/ Efforts

  • May 25th  | Dr. Megan McClelland  | Measuring and Predicting Healthy Development in Young Children

Spring 2011 Colloquia Series: the Future of Health Aging

This colloquium series highlights interdisciplinary approaches to aging research. Topics include current uses of technology, strategies for working across disciplines, and anticipated issues and opportunities in light of society’s aging demographics

 

IGERT in Aging Sciences Q & A

Dr. Karen Hooker, Director of the Center for Healthy Aging Research, PI for Oregon State's IGERT in Aging Sciences, and Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences leads an IGERT Q & A session.  Her presentation will highlight the opportunities that the program brings to all graduate students with an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to aging sciences.  original presentation: 4/6/2011

View the streaming video of Dr. Hooker's presentation
 

Collecting Well-being Metrics

Bill Reed, is co-founder of Elite Care's Oatfield Estates, a residential care facility south of Portland, Oregon that is world-renowned for its use of technology to empower residents and connect family members. In this video Bill discusses the social metrics that they use to track their residents' well-being in their communiteis. Bill Reed and Lydia Lundberg have received international recognition for their use of technology and innovative design. They were awarded the Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Awards in 2001, have advocated for the use of technology in long term care before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, at the White House Conference on Aging, and before the United Nations. original presentation: 4/20/2011

View streaming video of Bill Reed's presentation