Research Activities

  • Exercise physiology and nutrition in the obese elderly
  • Preventive medicine, rehabilitation medicine and health care delivery
  • Treatment of type 2 diabetes
  • Energy metabolism in aging
  • Rehabilitation of the frail, disabled elderly
  • Home health care for the frail elderly/health services research, anemia and nutritional status of the elderly

Services to Physicians

  • Consultations for patients over the age of 60 for reductions of cardiovascular risk factors (obesity, type 2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia, smoking)
  • Exercise training/nutrition evaluation