Northwell Roybal Center for Personalized Trials:
Physical Activity Promotion for Persons Giving Care or Living with AD/ADRD
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.
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
