Advancing Research and Innovation for Aging and Disability (ARIAD)

A CU Denver Research and
Creative Work Grand Challenge

The Goal

The ARIAD team aims to cultivate a powerful collaborative network of academic experts, community stakeholders, and local, national, and international industry advisors and partners to address the grand challenge of aging and aging into disability facing our world today. Funding and research support is provided by CU Denver in order to lay the foundation for building CU Denver’s reputation as a leader in research and creative work.

Project Information

ARIAD’s consortium of experts will converge to explore, develop, and deploy safe, productive, and efficient technologies to support the needs of those living with, or aging into, disability.

Leveraging and evolving CU Denver and Anschutz’s nationally recognized foundational programs is a key component of ARIAD’s plan. CIDE with its knowledge of assistive technology and human factors and design provides a vital strategic partnership. When partnered with the rest of the ARIAD group, the project team is equipped with expertise ranging from engineering to medicine to humanities and adult education. Collectively, ARIAD will forge new paths and propel creation of new knowledge to change lives by improving overall wellbeing and independence for those aging into or living with disability.

The outcome will not only make CU Denver a global destination for disability and aging technology innovation but will also make significant strides toward addressing the Grand Challenge facing our world today - how do we redesign our world when, for the first time in human history, our planet has more people over 65 than under the age of five?

Contact us to learn more or to join the effort!

Email Dr. Cathy Bodine: cathy.bodine@cuanschutz.edu
Email Dr. Caroline Clevenger: caroline.clevenger@ucdenver.edu

The Challenge

Public speaker in wheelchair in group with other adult lecturers.

One Billion

People live with disabilities worldwide.

Society is Aging

By 2030, one out of every five Americans will be at or above retirement age

Demand Fuels Innovation

One in two older adults will experience disability as they age.

Team Members

Daniel Matlock MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics

Geriatric Medicine (SOM)

Email Address:daniel.matlock@cuanschutz.edu

Primary Phone:3037249941

1890 North Revere Court

Bio

Dr. Matlock is a Professor of Medicine for CU Anschutz. His research is aimed at fundamentally changing and improving how patients make decisions around invasive interventions. Currently, he is funded under two NIH R01s and three current or previous PCORI grants studying the effectiveness, implementation, and dissemination of decision aids for implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICD) and left ventricular assist devices (LVAD). He holds memberships in the Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Group, one of the top outcomes research groups in the country, and the International Patient Decision Aid Standards update writing committee. He is the lead implementation scientist for the VA Medical Center’s Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center. He has done extensive work on ICD decision making including qualitative and mixed methods work with both patients and clinicians, epidemiological work on ICD practice variations, development of an ICD decision quality measures, and development of four ICD decision aids and two LVAD decision aids. This ICD work was recently referenced by CMS in a national coverage decision. He has successfully led two multi-site randomized trials of decision aids and participated as the site-investigator for two National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute funded RO1s exploring various aspects of decision making among patients with advanced heart failure. He currently directs the Colorado Program in Patient Centered Decisions at the Adult and Child Consortium for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science, where they take a broad view of shared decision-making, acknowledging that decisions are hard and influenced by many factors beyond cognitive information. They have a strong user-centered design focus for the development of their decision aids for enhanced implementation.

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