By: Kennedy Campbell The Alzheimer’s Association hosted the 2022 Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Saturday, September 17th at Meadowbrook Park in Urbana. The Alzheimer’s Association is a 501(c)3 organization focused on supporting the research efforts of Alzheimer’s disease. 287 Participants and 73 Teams participated in Saturday’s walk. The Collaborations in Health, Aging, Research, & Technology […]
The University of Illinois is part of a consortium that has been awarded a five-year, $14.7 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (National Institutes of Health) for the Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE). University of Illinois Professor Wendy Rogers—of the Dept. of Kinesiology and Community Health within […]
The Chittenden Symposium is a collaboration between Kinesiology and Community Health (KCH) and Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (ISE). This year’s symposium brought together faculty from both departments to share research related to this year’s theme “Human Factors in Health Technology.” Dr. Wendy Rogers, CHART Director, was part of the final presentation, with Dr. Girish […]
Alyssa Stanfield was brought on as the CHART Coordinator in January 2022. Alyssa grew up in the Champaign-Urbana area and graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelors in Community Health Promotion in 2020. She also serves as the Assistant Director for the Center on Health, Aging, and Disability (CHAD) and the Operations Manager of […]
CHART was featured as a program on the cutting edge of optimizing technology for older adults in a recent American Psychological Association Monitor article. The article discussed current work being done in this area and the work that CHART researchers have done has gained the attention of this prestigious organization[…] Read the full article.
Drs. Raksha Mudar, Mina Raj, and Wendy Rogers received funding from the Retirement Research Foundation for a proposal which seeks to test the impact of video technologies between family care partners and older adults with dementia. More details below: Title: Video Technology-based Social Engagement Intervention for Family Care Partners of Persons with Dementia Investigators: Raksha A. Mudar, […]
The CHART Steering Committee re-convened in April to continue planning for the future while reviewing past activities. The committee discussed the importance of collaboration with external partners, the recent designation as an Age-Friendly University, and planning future goals to continue to grow the impact that CHART makes. Additionally, we welcomed new steering committee members and […]
An increasing number of older adults live independently but have health conditions that must be managed—both chronic and acute. A grant awarded to an interdisciplinary team including KCH Professor Wendy Rogers aims to investigate some solutions to those issues. Rogers will be working with Professor Girish Krishnan, an assistant professor in The Grainger College of […]
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is now a member of the Age-friendly University Global Network, which Wendy Rogers took the initiative to incorporate the U of I into. The network strives to provide “an inclusive approach to healthy and active aging.” While the university already has several techniques for inclusion of older adults, Chancellor […]