More than 3 out of 5. That’s how many 65-year-olds today will reach the age of 80.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s Claude D. Pepper Older American Independence Center is one of the nation’s oldest National Institute on Aging-funded centers and is at the forefront of healthy aging and mobility research. As one of the nation's only aging centers that is fully integrated with an Alzheimer’s research center, we know how vital healthy aging is to supporting healthy brain aging.
Out team is:
- Accelerating the pace of discovery to advance early detection, prevention and treatment of many of today’s age-related diseases
- Collaborating to close the gap between simply living longer, versus living longer while free of disability and disease
- Leading many large-scale, multi-center studies focused on lifestyle interventions, like exercise and diet, to learn more about preserving mobility and function in older adults
- Looking for new ways to slow the actual aging process and delay or prevent the emergence of many age-related health conditions and diseases
- Embracing geroscience, a growing area of aging research, to explore how human biology can be optimized to prolong longer, healthier lives for all
With further investment, the research we are doing here today has the potential to be a true game-changer in enhancing — and extending — the lives of so many across the globe.
