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Colloquium - Disability in Older Black Adults: The Roles of Cognitive Functioning, Mood and Health

October 14 2008 at 9:30 AM

71 E. Ferry St., (Freer House, next door to IOG)

The 2008 Institute of Gerontology Colloquium Series presentsDisability in Older Black Adults: The Roles of Cognitive Functioning, Mood and HealthBrooke Schneider, M.APh.D. Candidate,NIA Pre-doctoral TraineeInstitute of GerontologyWayne State University Presentation SummaryMs Schneider will demonstrate the impact of health disparities, cognition, disease and mood on experiences in aging, and discuss tools used to measure these domains in older adults. This talk includes a brief introduction to guiding theoretical frameworks of disability, and then discusses in more detail aspects of physical functioning, cognition and health that may be used to identify olderadults at early stages of pathways toward disability.She is a graduate student in clinical psychology at Wayne State University, where she is also a NIA/NIH pre-doctoral trainee at the Institute of Gerontology. She received her master's degree in clinical psychology from Wayne State University in 2007 and expects to complete her dissertation in May 2009.Speaker's Research InterestsMs. Schneider's current research explores predictors of disability in older adults. She is specifically interested in the connections between physical performance and cognitive functioning and how tools that measure these domains may be used to identify older adults most at risk for disability onset. Her research has examined the incremental utility of using information regarding physical performance and cognition after accounting for health and demographic factors. She has also explored the effects of impairments in physical functioning and disease on mood in older Black adults.Presented courtesy of the Mary Thompson Foundation- Please AttendTo subscribe to our distribution list, please visit: www.iog.wayne.edu/list.php

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