[Isl] Walter Boot, Neil Charness & team receive R01 award from National Institute on Aging

[Willard Edmonds]

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Walter Boot, left, and Neil Charness.

Congratulations to Walter Boot (PI) and Neil Charness, along with an interdisciplinary team encompassing faculty from the College of Medicine, the School of Information, the Department of Sociology and the Department of Computer Science, for receiving an R01 award from the National Institute on Aging for their project:  The Adherence Promotion with Person-centered Technology (APPT) Project: Promoting Adherence to Enhance the Early Detection and Treatment of Cognitive Decline.

The aims of the project are to promote early detection and treatment of age-related cognitive decline and dementia.

This project will develop Artificial Intelligence-based reminder systems to help ensure long-term engagement to home-based cognitive assessment and cognitive training protocols to be able to detect and treat cognitive decline as soon as possible.

The total award is for $2.9 million.

Boot is a professor in the Department of Psychology and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity. Charness is the William G. Chase Professor of Psychology and director of the institute.

Bill Edmonds, Ph.D.
Institute for Successful Longevity
Florida State University
850-933-7960
btedmond at fsu.edu<mailto:btedmond at fsu.edu>

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