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ARIA members have had 34 funded grant submissions totaling over $10,000,000 related to aging research.

22 funded internal grants ($209,650) and 18 funded external grants/contracts ($10,223,541)

Funding agencies/partners include:

Economics and Sociology Fellowship, University of Lodz, Poland 
Hays County Emergency Service District No. 5
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 
NeuroTrax, Inc.
McKnight Foundation for Neuroscience   
Texas Department of Health and Human Services
Texas Physical Therapy Foundation
The Institute for Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston
Little Tokyo Service Center (Admin. for Community Living)
United States Department of Energy

Recent Journal Publications: 

         Science                                  Innovation in Aging
         Journal of Gerontology       Aging & Mental Health
         Psychological Science        Neuropsychologia
         Cortex                                    Journal of Health Psychology
         Neuropsychology                 Journal of Adult Development
         Clinical Nursing Research  Neurobiology of Aging
 

Kim, S., Halvorsen, C., Potter, C., & Faul, J. (2025). Does volunteering reduce epigenetic age acceleration among retired and working older adults? Results from the Health and Retirement Study. Social Science & Medicine, 364, 117501. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117501 

Kim, S., Shiba, K., Halvorsen, C. (2025). Reducing hypertension through volunteering: Investigating the causal link between volunteering frequency and blood pressure by gender, race, and cohort. Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine. 

Kipp, L. E., Pigg, Q., Kim, J., Fisher, A., & Mettler, J. A. (2025). Resistance training and sarcopenia-related quality of life in younger and older adults. Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, 10(1), e000280. 

Myers, D. L., & Larrotta, C. (2025). HIM Students Learning the Language of Medicine Through a Staged Self-Directed Learning Model. Radiologic Science and Education Journal. 

Pradhan, R., Davlyatov, G., Chisholm, L., Williams, C., Sen, K., Manning, A. D. J., & Weech-Maldonado, R. (2025). Agency Nursing Staff Utilization and Turnover in Nursing Homes: A Longitudinal Analysis. Healthcare, 13(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13040379 

Westerberg, C. E., Fickle, S. E., Troupe, C. E., Madden-Rusnak, A., & Deason, R. G. (2025). An afternoon nap facilitates analogical transfer in creative problem solving. Journal of Sleep Research, 34, e14419. 

Recently Published Books:

Johnson, Christopher J. and Pasupuleti, Sudershan. Editors. (Spring 2026).  Dementia Care – Innovations Forward." Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. 

Johnson, C. J. & Pasupuleti, S. (2026).  Emerging Perspectives in Dementia.  In C. Johnson & S. Pasupuleti (Eds.). Dementia Care – Innovations Forward." Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. 

Johnson, C. J. & Johnson, R. (2026). Time Travel Model of Alzheimer’s Revisited. (2026 submitted). In C. Johnson & S. Pasupuleti (Eds.). Dementia Care – Innovations Forward." Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. 

Johnson, C. & Bhattacharya, K. (2026). The Triad Empowerment Paradigm in Dementia Care. In C. Johnson & S. Pasupuleti (Eds.). Dementia Care – Innovations Forward." Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. 

Johnson, Christopher.  (2025). How Different Religions View Death and Afterlife 3rd edition (4th ed.). Dubuque, Iowa, United States: Kendall Hall Publishers. 

MM Aljunaidy & MN Adi (2024). An Introduction to Architectural Psychopathology. LAD Custom Publishing. ISBN: 979-8-88558-632-0, 2024

ARIA members regularly attend and present research at conferences held by organizations such as: 

         Gerontological Society of America 
         American Speech Language Hearing Association
         Memory Disorders Research Society
         Sealy Center on Aging
         Texas Department of Health and Human Services