Amy Rodriguez
Emory University, GA·Medicine & Clinical Research
Lifestyle factors such as physical activity and daily habits are increasingly seen as key to both the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and resilience against them. People at the highest risk especially need ways to reduce those factors.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
Neuroscience
- Topics
Alzheimer's disease
dementia
mild cognitive impairment
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Apr 2030
What they work on
- Harmonize and scale behavioral and digital tools that measure lifestyle risk factors, so participants across the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center are described in consistent, detailed ways.
- Improve the precision of lifestyle intervention delivery and research for people ranging from healthy aging adults to those with mild cognitive impairment or dementia, building on the Cognitive Empowerment Program.
- Promote education on managing lifestyle risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, using the program's evidence-based lifestyle and empowerment curriculum.
More about the research
This work builds on the Cognitive Empowerment Program, a research program at Emory's Goizueta Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. The program delivers structured lifestyle interventions and educational resources meant to slow or prevent decline in thinking and daily function. It also aims to lessen the impact of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an early stage of memory and thinking problems, on quality of life.
Why it matters
Older adults, people with mild cognitive impairment, people with dementia, and their families could benefit. Better tools to identify and reduce lifestyle risk factors might help slow or prevent cognitive and functional decline. Standardized lifestyle measures could also help researchers learn which risk factors matter most for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Emory University: 70 labs on PI Pages, $1.2B a year on research, 286 research doctorates a year.
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