The Yale Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) is an inter-departmental, multidisciplinary center. Our objectives are to promote the functional independence of older Americans.
Research
Faculty in the Section of Geriatrics perform on-site research through the Yale Program on Aging/Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. This research is multidisciplinary, multifactorial and spans a broad range of aging-related topics including functional and cognitive outcomes, decision-making, sleep disturbance, health disparities, deprescribing, and many more.
Collaborate with Us
The section and the Yale Program on Aging strive to collaborate across many clinical specialties. If you are interested in collaborating, we want to hear from you! Email: poa@yale.edu
Join Our Aging Research Series
The section hosts several Aging Research Conferences open to all Yale faculty and staff. These include:
- Biology of Aging Seminar provides a forum for multidisciplinary research on aging for basic science investigators
- The Program on Aging Workshops are designed to be interactive and provide practical, real-world information to early investigator
- The Aging Research Seminar is an interdisciplinary conference that serves as a forum to present newly completed (or nearly completed) work in aging.
To learn more or be added to the mailing lists, please contact poa@yale.edu.
Yale Pepper Center Center for Disability and Disabling Disorders The objective of the Yale Center for Disability and Disabling Disorders is to address fundamental issues related to the epidemiology and prevention of disability, a problem of immense importance to older persons, their families and society.
Patient & Caregiver Resources A suite of resources covering topics such as long-term care planning, dementia, caregiver support, and more.
COACH The Connecticut Older Adult Collaboration for Health (COACH) exists to build and retain a multidisciplinary geriatric workforce.
Fried Lab Dr. Fried’s research aims to improve treatment decision-making for older persons with multiple chronic conditions.
Patient Priorities Care Patient Priorities Care (PPC) is an evidence-based approach to decision making that aligns health care with a person’s own health priorities – the health outcome goals they most desire given the healthcare tasks they are willing and able to do to achieve them.