Lines of Research

Brain aging:

• Evaluation of cognitive disorders in our specialized clinic



• Validation of clinical scales to evaluate cognitive decline and mood disorders in our population



• Prospective surveillance of patients with cognitive decline



• Brain imaging of cognitive decline



• Epidemiology of neurocognitive disorders in Mexico City and the Americas compared with other countries.



• Collaborative Alzheimer Center Project with the University of Pennsylvania



• Penn Latino Project



• Collaboration with the Department of Neurosciences at the University of Bordeaux 2

Aging and Nutrition

• Disorders of nutritional status.



• Epidemiology of nutritional disorders in the older adult



• Anthropometry of the older adult and its reference values



• Obesity and its risk factors



• Epidemiology of sarcopenia



• Weight loss in the older adult



• Nutritional risk factors in older adults that develop pressure ulcers



• Body composition of older adults with diabetes mellitus



• Body composition of older adults with longstanding diabetes mellitus



• Geriatric syndromes in older adults with diabetes mellitus



• Disability and diabetes mellitus



• Nutrition of the institutionalized patient



• Epidemiology of aging: Hospital Cohort of Extreme Longevity; National Survey of Aging in Mexico; CRONOS Survey; SABE; OPS; EPIDEM; Cohort of Coyoacan; Frailty and HIV Cohort.



• National Consensus on Nutrition and Aging

Geriatric assessment

• Development of a global geriatric assessment system

Health services

• Assessment of long term care institutions in Mexico City



• Assessment of quality of care of older adults in a general hospital



• Pressure ulcer prevention in the hospitalized patient



• Prevention of falls in the hospitalized patient

Frailty

• Study of Nutritional and Psychosocial Determinants of Frailty (Cohort of Coyoacán)



• Frailty and cognitive functioning



• Frailty and HIV/AIDS



• Frailty and disability

Neurology and Geriatrics

• Disabling diseases in the elderly



• Β amyloid 1-42 and Tau protein in cerebrospinal fluid as biomarkers for early diagnosis of Alzheimer disease in Mexican older adults



• Vascular reactivity and mild cognitive impairment

Social support systems

• Support group for caregivers



• Identification of factors associated with caregiver collapse



• Elder abuse and mistreatment



• Gerontological social evaluation