| The Center’s mission is to conduct exercise and motor-learning based rehabilitation research to optimize the recovery of older adults and then translate these findings into effective community-based rehabilitation programs. To realize its mission, the Center focuses on six specific aims: Determine the functional impairments that characterize the disability phenotype in stroke and hip fracture across the domains of neuromotor, muscular, metabolic, cardiovascular and psychosocial function.
Translate the scientific findings from basic and clinical research to design novel exercise and motor learning-based rehabilitation strategies to improve functionality in disabled older people.
Determine the mechanisms by which disability-specific rehabilitation strategies improve functional, physiological, and clinical outcomes in older individuals with physical disabilities.
Translate the efficacious rehabilitation strategies into community-based clinical research studies.
Support Pilot/Exploratory (P/E) and Core Development Projects (CDP) that study the mechanisms underlying the functional and clinical responses to rehabilitation strategies designed to promote recovery.
Foster the career development of junior faculty from multiple disciplines into independent investigators and academic leaders in gerontology and geriatric rehabilitation medicine.
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