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Northwell Roybal Center for Personalized Trials:

Physical Activity Promotion for Persons Giving Care or Living with AD/ADRD

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About our Center

The goal of the Northwell Roybal Center for Personalized Trials: Physical Activity Promotion for Persons Giving Care or Living with AD/ADRD is to focus on innovative, physical activity behavioral interventions aimed at promoting and improving the overall health and well-being of older adults through the conduct of fully powered, meaningful projects. The Center’s specific focus will be Personalized (N-of-1 ) trials for Stage I intervention development, and a common battery of mechanisms of actions will be explicitly assessed where appropriate.  

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Projects

The first project aims to efficiently identify the distinct, effective behavior change techniques (i.e., building blocks) that are preferred for improving low-intensity physical activity (e.g., walking) in older, otherwise healthy, community-dwelling adults to be included in later-stage multi-behavior change technique interventions. The second project aims to formally test the habit-formation theory to improve walking in a second sample of older, otherwise healthy, community-dwelling adults by employing its behavior change techniques and hypothesized mechanism of action—cognitive automaticity. The projects’ success is contingent on the creation of a practical, science-based, prevention-driven suite of behavioral interventions that are successfully implemented in the real world to improve the health and vitality of older adults.

Our Team

Karina Davidson, PhD

Principal Investigator 

Maria Carney, MD

Co-Investigator

D'Arcy King, PhD

Co-Investigator

Joan Duer-Hefele, RN, MA, CCRC

Project Director

Our Team
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