As the U.S. population ages, demand for long-term care services is increasing. Adult Foster Homes (AFHs), small residential care settings offering personalized support fo [...]

This dissertation investigates how aging alters the biological, molecular, and structural processes that guide skeletal muscle regeneration and evaluates how these age-re [...]

The hypothalamus plays a key role in maintaining homeostatic functions that change during aging, like reproduction and sleep-wake activity. Using a nonhuman primate anima [...]

Due to their genetic, behavioral, and physiological similarities to humans, rhesus macaques (Macacca mulatta) have long been used as a translational model in biomedical r [...]

In 2014, older adults accounted for about 15% of the total United States population, and this total is projected to increase to 21% by the year 2030. As this population [...]

This poster was based on a community outreach project that was an educational and informative session on all things related to bones and aging. This project provided 65+ [...]

Within the last five years, the prevalence of diabetes among inmates living in Oregon prisons has increased by 50%. [...]

The United States population is rapidly aging. The population age 65 and older increased from 39.6 million in 2009 to 54.1 million in 2019 (a 36% increase) and is project [...]

Slower gait speed has previously been shown to be associated with mortality in aging pop- ulations, based on a single measure of gait speed,1–3 but repeated measures of g [...]