RESEARCH RESOURCES

AgeLab
Based in MIT’s School of Engineering’s Engineering Systems Division, AgeLab is a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, business partners, universities, and the aging community working to design, develop and deploy innovations that translate technologies into practical solutions to improve people’s health and enable them to “do things” throughout the lifespan.

Boston College Institute on Aging (IOA)
Established in 2008 to foster education and research regarding spiritual, physical, social, financial and emotional dimensions of well-being of older adults and their families.

Brandeis Healthy Aging
The Brandeis Lifespan Initiative on Healthy Aging (LIHA) promotes interdisciplinary research and scholarship to optimize health and well-being across the lifespan.

Center for Retirement Research
The goals of Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research are to promote research on retirement issues, to transmit new findings to a broad audience, to help train new scholars, and to expand access to valuable data resources.

CereVasc
CereVasc, Inc. is developing the eShunt® System for the treatment of patients with communicating hydrocephalus, one of the most common neurological conditions affecting both children and adults. Current treatment of these patients requires an invasive, neurosurgical procedure with a documented rate of success well below the success rate for other neurosurgical interventions. The eShunt System has the potential to significantly improve patient outcomes and substantially decrease the overall cost of surgical treatment of this life-threatening condition.

Rosalie Wolf Interdisciplinary Geriatric Healthcare Research Center
Serves as an advocate for expanded geriatric research initiatives advancing the Center’s mission to develop and study innovative clinical and health services interventions for the elderly, and to provide training opportunities for new investigators.

RoseMary B. Fuss Center for Research on Aging and Intergenerational Studies
Located at Lasell Village on the campus of Lasell College, dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults through research, community partnerships, and teaching.

UMass Gerontology Institute
Preparing for an aging society through research, public service, and education; the Institute carries out basic and applied social and economic research on aging and engages in public education on aging policy issues, with an emphasis in four areas: income security, health (including long-term care), productive aging (including transportation), and basic social and demographic research on aging.