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University of Florida Health Shands Hospital is now tied for top adult hospital in Florida, according to the 2016-2017 U.S. News & World Report adult specialty rankings of the nation’s hospitals — and the rankings also include recognition of the geriatrics specialty at UF Health. Geriatric medicine at UF Health…
Evaluating Walking Intensity with Hip-Worn Accelerometers in Elders Coauthors: Vincenzo Valiani, Jeffrey Knaggs, Todd Manini Journal: Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise – the flagship journal of the American College of Sports Medicine – www.acsm-msse.org Accelerometer-based activity monitors, often referred to as wearables, is one of the fastest…
2016 Event Program: Abstracts List and Event Information …
Duane B. Corbett, PhD—postdoctoral associate under the mentorship of Dr. Todd Manini—and Shannon Cochrane—university scholar under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas Buford—both received honorable mention for their oral presentations during the Robert A. Levitt Research Awards Competition as part of the 6th annual Institute for Learning in Retirement/University of Florida…
Congratulations to Dr. Natalie Ebner for being the recipient of the 2016 UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors. This university-wide award recognizes research quality and innovativeness.
Your grip strength is what researchers at the University of Florida studied, using national data from nearly 2,000 people, who might be missed when screening for diabetes and hypertension. …
Congratulations to Dr. Christy Carter and Alecia Monteiro (Instructional Designer) for receiving the Online Education Excellence Award in the Graduate Courses category for GMS6483 (Theories of Aging)!…
Pallavi Sood is our first student to graduate from the Department’s certificate program in Aging and Geriatric Practice. Ms. Sood is a third year doctoral student in Rehabilitation Science at UF and a Research Assistant at CINDRR, NF/SGVHS, VA, Gainesville. She is a Physical Therapist and board eligible prosthetist. Her…
Title: Age differences in cytokine expression under conditions of health using experimental pain models Published in: Experimental Gerontology Older adults are at an increased risk to develop frequent and prolonged pain. Emerging evidence proposes a link between immune changes and pain, which is consistent with the inflammation theory of…
Yenisel Cruz-Almeida, Assistant Professor, Department of Aging and GeriatricResearch,UF Institute on Aging Older adults experience greater clinical pain than younger cohorts and aging is associated with significant changes to our brain.
