Rehabilitation
Research and Training Center onAging with a Disability
Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with a Disability is located at the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, California, which was also the site for the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Spinal Cord Injury.
The center investigates the impact of aging on people with a disability, and examines issues such as health changes, psychological reactions, family needs, and job accommodation. The center specialize in new research on aging with disability and providing training to physicians, direct service professionals, and consumers. Types of impairments included in our research are polio and post-polio syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, stroke and others.
Funding for these centers is provided by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education.
Rehabilitation
Research and Training Center on Aging with a Disability
Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
7601 E. Imperial Hwy, Building 800-W
Downey, California 90242; (voice) 562-401-7402; (fax) 562-401-7011
webmaster: chuck.sanders@agingwithdisability.org
last updated 7/14/2008
