Through a series of workshops, the RCCN will bring together scientists from multiple disciplines, many for the first time.
Our workshops will provide the environment to share views among scientists from different disciplines and to promote conversations and interchanges that otherwise would not happen. By focusing on common problems from differing perspectives, new approaches can emerge for solving important problems facing older persons and our aging society.
The RCCN will foster the development of early-career faculty interest and competencies in multidisciplinary research by sponsoring tailored didactic activities.
Workshop proceedings will be disseminated for the benefit of the larger aging research community and the public. A pilot program tied to the conference series will provide seed money for new inter-center research partnerships.
Upcoming Workshops
Multidisciplinary Research in Aging/Team Science
May 20-21, 2026
View the draft agenda here.
Past Workshops
Innovative Perspectives to Advance AD/ADRD Multidisciplinary Research
November 11-12, 2025
Some presentation slides and recordings are available here.
The scope of this workshop included these themes: Reimagining AD/ADRD risk and resilience, Innovations in testing behavioral interventions in AD/ADRD, New Approaches to Support Caregivers, Resources for Accelerating the pace Multidisciplinary Research in AD/ADRD.
AI and Health Behaviors for Healthy Aging
June 24-25, 2025
Presentation slides and recordings are available here.
The scope of this virtual workshop included these themes: Discrete Behaviors, Long-Term Changes, AI in a Larger Context, and Challenges and Opportunities.
Climate Change and Aging
November 12, 2024
Presentation slides and recordings are available here.
This meeting was held in Seattle, WA in conjunction with the Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting. The scope of the workshop included these themes: Exposures, Vulnerabilities, Interventions to Cope with Climate Change, and Intermediary Between Disaster and the Health Outcomes.
Nutrition and Aging Biology
June 25-26, 2024
Presentation slides and recordings are available here.
This meeting included sessions on Caloric Restriction’s Effect on Lifespan and Healthspan, Intake Timing, Treating Obesity in Older Adults, and Other Approaches and Considerations. This meeting was supported in part by the Hevolution Foundation Scientific Conferences Fund.
Promoting Healthy Aging Through Nutrition
July 20-21, 2023
Presentation slides, recordings, and the workshop agenda are available here.
The meeting included sessions on Timing and Targeting Interventions, Social Context of Diet and Food Choice, Dietary Patterns in Health and Disease, and Advancing the Field.
mHealth and Digital Health Approaches to Research in Aging
November 1-2, 2022
Presentation slides, recordings, and the workshop agenda are available here.
The meeting included sessions on Measuring Exposures and Outcomes, mHealth Approaches to Intervention Delivery / Prevention, and Digital Approaches to Healthcare Delivery for Older Adults.
Aging, Race, and Health Disparities
June 28-29, 2022
Presentation slides, recordings, and the workshop agenda are available here.
The meeting included sessions on Frameworks and Methodologic Approaches for Health Disparities Research and Biologic, Physiologic and Health Care Implications.
Measuring Biologic Age
January 19-20, 2022
Presentation slides, recordings, and the workshop agenda are available here.
The meeting included sessions on aspects of measuring biologic age including the Conceptual Issues Relevant to Defining Biologic Age, Are The Things We Can Measure Useful?, Physiologic Aging, and Applications / Implications.
Inclusion of Older Adults in Clinical Research
February 23-24, 2021
Presentation slides, recordings, and the workshop agenda are available here.
The meeting included sessions on aspects of including older adults in clinical research including the Current Situation, Barriers - Real and Perceived, Making the Case, and Best Practices for Reaching Out to Colleagues.
Life Course Perspectives on Aging
November 3-4, 2020
Presentation slides, recordings, and the workshop agenda are available here.
The meeting included sessions on Early Life, The Emerging Adult, Chronic and Acute Stress, and Mechanisms and Models. This workshop was held as a webinar.
Resilience and Reserve in Aging
November 12-13, 2019
Presentation slides and the workshop agenda are available here.
The RCCN's third 1.5 day conference focused on resilience and reserve in aging. The meeting included sessions on Contributors to Resilience and Reserve, Operationalizing Reserve in the Context of Social Adversity, Resilience: Bouncing Back from Surgery, and Contributors/Interventions to Build Resilience/Reserve. The meeting was preceded by a session for early career investigators.
Sex and Gender Differences in Aging
June 6-7, 2019
Presentation slides, recordings, and the workshop agenda are available here.
The RCCN's second 1.5 day conference focused on sex and gender differences in aging. The meeting included sessions on comparing males and females, pathophysiological differences, sex/gender in clinical care, and gender and health in the social context. The meeting was followed by a post-workshop session for early career investigators.
Achieving and Sustaining Behavior Change
to Benefit Older Adults
Dec 6-7, 2018
Access presentation slides, recordings, and the agenda for the workshop here.
The first 1.5 day conference focused on achieving and sustaining behavioral change in older adults. The meeting included sessions on individual and contextual level determinants of achieving and sustaining behavior change, active strategies to achieve and maintain behavior change, the health system’s role in improving health of older adults, and approaches to trial recruitment and health system focused interventions. The meeting was followed by a post-workshop session for early career investigators.