The 16th Annual Intrinsic Capacity, Frailty, and Sarcopenia Research Conference took place on March 10-12, 2026 at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC. The Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence […]
The 2026 Annual ICFSR Meeting will be held from March 10-12, 2026, at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC. The Johns Hopkins Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center […]
The Frailty Science Team profoundly mourns the passing of Dr. Jeremy D. Walston on June 10, 2025.
The Frailty Science Team profoundly mourns the passing of Dr. Jeremy D. Walston on June 10, 2025.
Presentation by Jordan Gunning, PhD, on “Optimizing healthy aging with personalized lifestyle interventions.”
Presentation by Dr. Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas on “Technological approaches to frailty management: preliminary concepts and a practical real-life application.”
The #FrailtyFighter series is back to promote the 2025 International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research
We are excited to announce the next session of the Innovative Design, Testing, and Implementation of Frailty Interventions seminar series! Date/Time: January 22, 2025, 9-10AM EST Title: The EngAGE Randomized Controlled […]
Dr. Jeremy Walston, Professor of Geriatric Medicine and renowned researcher in the field of frailty science, has been named as the recipient of the 2024 Irving S. Wright Award of […]
The Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC), a long-running NIH funded research program focused on frailty research, was recently awarded a supplemental grant to investigate the intersecting biological pathways that drive early onset of physical frailty in a subset of individuals living with and without HIV through the study of mitochondrial decline.
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The sudden passing of Dr. Judy Kasper, a prominent expert in the study of disability in later life and its implications for older adults, their loved ones, and health care policies, struck all who knew her with feelings of sadness and shock. To celebrate Dr. Kasper as both a stellar scientist and a wonderful colleague and friend, we asked some of her collaborators to reflect on their work with her and the impact she had on their careers and lives. We have also summarized Dr. Kasper’s important role in facilitating frailty research in the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Continue Reading