Todd Manini - Gerotechnology Tools for Understanding Mobility Resilience in Late-Life

Resilience is a hallmark concept in Geriatrics and Gerontology that seeks to explain the variability in adaptation to stressors. However, quantifying the ability to positively adapt in the face of adversity is challenging making it understudied concept. This presentation will focus on using new gerotechnology tools to study “mobility resilience” in the context of episodic health events in older adults. Gerotechnology tools offer innovative approaches that enable researchers and clinicians to capture, monitor, and analyze mobility patterns in unprecedented ways. We will discuss state-of-the-art technologies, including wearable sensors, mobile applications, and remote monitoring platforms, that provide continuous and real-time insights into the causes and consequences of mobility loss in late-life.

Dr. Manini, a native of Steubenville Ohio, grew up in a blue-collar, Italian immigrant family. He was taught resiliency, hard-work and respect for elders and their cultural traditions which formed the building blocks for his future research career. He attended Ohio University in Athens, OH where he graduated with honors in Biology and minor in Biochemistry. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. as well as a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Gerontology from Syracuse University. He completed a fellowship at the Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, MD. He is currently as the administrative PI of the University of Florida’s Claude D. Pepper Older American’s Independence Center (OAIC) and Co-Leader of its Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Core. His other leadership positions include being the Director of the T32 Translational Research on Aging and Mobility (TRAM) program and the Division Chief of Clinical and Population Health Integration in The Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics. He has an eclectic background of research experiences and curiosity that is ideally suited to study the translational spectrum of the science on aging.

This lecture is part of the IHMC Evening Lecture series.
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