Perley Health Centre of Excellence in Frailty-Informed Care™ Webinar Series
May 22 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Register now for the Perley Health Centre of Excellence in Frailty-Informed Care™ May webinar presented by Karen J Bandeen-Roche, PhD
Topic: Resilience-to-Frailty in Older Adults: A Window on Lifelong Health
Date: Thursday, May 22, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Biography: Dr. Bandeen-Roche is Professor and Emeritus Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). She works at the interface of quantitative and gerontological science. Her gerontologic research aims to understand the causes and delay the course of physical disability, cognitive decline, and frailty in older adults, and promote resilience. Statistically, she specializes in latent variable and multivariate outcome modeling. She leads the JHU Training Program on the Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging and JHU Older Americans Independence Center. She is a Fellow/Member of the American Statistical Association, Gerontological Society of America, and US National Academy of Medicine.
Objective: The physical resilience concept aims to promote positive outcomes following stressors to older adults. To achieve this aim, we must determine physiologic mechanisms underlying either capacity to respond resiliently, or, when critically dysregulated, frailty. The Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence Center studies the resilience-to-frailty spectrum: First, its major concepts and research contributions are outlined. Then, we describe the recent Study of Physical Resilience and Aging, which implemented stimulus-response tests to characterize physiological fitness in older adults scheduled for major stressors (e.g., total knee replacement-TKR). We report work to develop physiologic resilience measures from these stimulus-response data and study their associations with functional resilience following TKR. Our study lays groundwork to better foster older adults’ resilience to stressors and, ultimately, overall health.
Register now using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/CoEMay2025
The COA gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Ontario and the City of Ottawa.
