Neil Charness, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity, will take part in the Second Global Consultation for the WHO-UNICEF Global Report on Assistive Technology.
Charness is an internationally recognized expert on the use of technology by older adults, and he often speaks and writes on how technology can be better designed to be more accessible for older individuals and to more adequately address their wants and needs.
Paul Katz, M.D., Chair of Geriatrics in the College of Medicine and Medical Director of the Westminster Oaks, and Neil Charness, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity, will speak Thursday (October 14) at the Tallahassee residential community for older adults.
Charness will speak on “The Promise and Limits of Technology to Promote Successful Longevity” to open the luncheon series for 2021.
Neil Charness, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity, will open the Milton S. Carothers Faculty Lecture Series with a talk October 18 on “The Promise and Limits of Technology to Promote Successful Longevity.”
Charness will speak at noon in the Robert B. Bradley Reading Room in Strozier Library.
From left, Professor Antonio Terracciano, Professor Angelina Sutin and Assistant Professor Martina Luchetti from the Florida State University College of Medicine. Their research showed an association between a sense of purpose in life and more vivid, coherent and accessible memories, qualities that are part of what's known as phenomenology. Their work was published in the journal Memory. (Bruce Palmer/FSU Photography Services)
Add an improved memory to the list of the many benefits that accompany having a sense of purpose in life.
Jing Wang, Ph.D., dean of Florida State University’s College of Nursing and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has been named a 2021 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
You are invited to hear Aaron Wilber, Ph.D., speak on “Findings in mouse models suggest Alzheimer’s disease may change brain function during sleep leading to memory loss and impairments in navigating our surroundings.”
Neil Charness, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity, and Walter Boot, Ph.D., a Faculty Affiliate of the institute, will be in Bordeaux, France, in late September to meet with other researchers in a workshop on their CREATE project, which focuses on designing technology for older adults.
Damaris Aschwanden, Ph.D., gave a fascinating talk on “Who We Are Shapes How We Cognitively Age? Personality & Cognitive Health in Late Life” in the first presentation in the ISL Brown Bag Series for Fall 2021.
Professors Michael Ormsbee, left, and Robert Hickner have received a National Institutes of Health grant to examine how resistance training could potentially help prevent type 2 diabetes.
By Kathleen Haughney, University Communications
A research center led by Eren Erman Ozguven, Associate Professor in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, is among three institutes featured in a new Florida State University initiative designed to amplify centers and institutes that are doing high-profile, public-impact research and connect them with donors interested in pursuing big questions.
