What's New

  • New Presentation: Technology & Aging with Disabilities

    Our own Keyu Chen and Mark Harniss participated in the Workshop on Evaluating Off-the-Shelf Technologies for Personal Health Monitoring at the 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Pittsburgh, PA.

  • Dr. George Kraft receives the Muscular Dystrophy Association's Lifetime Achievement Award

    George H. Kraft, MD, MS received this award for extraordinary service provided to patients and families at the UW Medicine's MD Clinic. Dr. Kraft is Co-Director of the UW Medicine's MD Clinic as well as Principal Investigator of the MSRRTC.  

  • Recent study examines complexities of measuring obesity in people with disabilities

    A recently published study examined obesity levels among people with disabilities by collecting the body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) from 1867 participants.  BMI is calculated from an individual’s weight and height, and WC measures the distance around an individual’s abdomen. Both measures are used to determine if a person is at risk of health problems associated with obesity such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes.

  • Ivan Molton Awarded the Switzer Fellowship

    This year, our Co-Director, Ivan Molton, PhD, was awarded the Switzer Fellowship sponsored by the National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). With this award, Dr. Molton will continue to look at bridging the gap between disability and aging. 

  • American Geriatrics Society's 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting
    Ivan Molton and Aimee Verrall presented 3 posters at the American Geriatrics Society's 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting held in Seattle, WA May 3 - 4 2012. We connected with several geriatric psychologists and gerontologists who were interested in the work we're doing studying people aging with physical disability. This was one of many opportunities for our RRTC to bridge the gap between disability and aging research and health care. 

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