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Funding Agency: National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health
Project Identifier: P30-AG22838
Co-Principal Investigator: Cynthia Owsley, PhD, MSPH

This grant provides research infrastructure support for UAB’s Center for Research in Applied Gerontology. The focus of the UAB Center for Research on Applied Gerontology is to develop and evaluate interventions that will allow older individuals to remain independent and to experience a high quality of life. Specifically, our program seeks to improve those visual, attentional and cognitive functions which decline at varying rates among older adults, and which are particularly relevant to maintaining functional abilities such as mobility and driving skills. The target population consists of community-dwelling older persons who have experienced some decline in these functions and for whom the interventions would likely improve mobility levels in daily life. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Karlene Ball and the Co-Principal Investigator is Dr. Cynthia Owsley.