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.
Recent Publications
Centers and other resources
for Faculty working in this area.