Richard Holden
ProfessorPublic Health (SPH-B) and Medicine (Adjunct)
ude[dot]ui[at]nedlohjr
Healthy Aging, by Design
My applied and translational research develops and evaluates technologies and other solutions to promote healthy aging, self-care, and caregiving. One branch of this research is applying systems engineering methods to model the process of “patient work,” i.e., the health-related work of patients and care partners. A second branch is designing and usability testing interventions for the prevention and care of aging-related chronic disease, including Brain CareNotes, Engage, Power to the Patient, Brain Safe, Brain Buddy, Helping the Helpers, OTC Senior Section, and R2D2. A third branch is the rigorous efficacy and effectiveness testing of interventions in clinical trials. The fourth branch is the application of Agile to implement and sustain evidence-based interventions. This collective work has resulted in dozens of funded interdisciplinary studies from discovery to development to testing to real-world implementation of interventions for the prevention and care of conditions including hypertension, heart failure, diabetes, dementia, and intellectual and developmental disability.