Aging

Yale School of Public Health faculty are engaged in interdisciplinary approaches to promote healthier aging. Our research includes:

• Influence of social psychological factors, including age stereotypes and ageism, on health outcomes
• Improving emotional health of older adults and reducing stress for the caregivers
• Identifying how home environments and finances affect the health of older adults
• Prevention of chronic diseases such as stroke and cardiovascular diseases
• Cognitive health (Alzheimer's disease and dementia)
• Improving HIV/AIDS outcomes for aging populations
• Improving health care access for older people
• Techniques for reducing the risk of falls and minimizing physical disability among older persons
• Access to care, insurance markets and public policy
• Quality of preventive, acute, long-term and end-of-life health care
• Novel integrative analysis using imaging and genetics to determine risk for Alzheimer's disease and its progression

Methodologies include:

• Etiology and treatment of disease
• Disease surveillance
• Genetics, pathology, epidemiology and neuroimaging
• Methods and qualitative and quantitative analyses for clinical trials
• Interventions, longitudinal studies and community-based field studies

Learn more about this work in the Departments of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Social and Behavioral Sciences.

• The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  Self-Reports and Caregivers' Proxy Reports of Unmet Needs of Persons With Dementia
• Gerontologist
  Ageism Amplifies Cost and Prevalence of Health Conditions
• Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  Negative Age Stereotypes Associated with Older Persons' Rejection of COVID-19 Hospitalization