$4.75 Million Grant Establishes USC's First Rehab Engineering Research Center
October 3, 2008
USC and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center Experts Will Examine Technologies To Assist Individuals Aging with Disability

Los Angeles -- The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research has awarded a five-year, $4.75 million grant to USC and the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center to establish the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Technologies for Successful Aging with Disability.

The new Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center, or RERC, will use the yearly grant award of $950,000 to study the challenges of growing older with disabilities and the positive effects that new technologies can have on independence, health and quality of life... (read more)

  USC and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center experts will examine technologies to assist individuals aging with disability
10/01/08 .. By Beth Dunham

The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) has awarded a five-year, $4.75 million grant to USC and the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center to establish the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Technologies for Successful Aging with Disability.

Carolee Winstein The new Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) will use the yearly grant award of $950,000 to study the challenges of growing older with disabilities and the positive effects that new technologies can have on independence, health and quality of life. Whether an individual ages with a preexisting disability, such as spinal cord injury or cerebral palsy, or develops a new disability with age, such as osteoarthritis or Parkinson’s disease, his or her aging process tends to progress much more rapidly than that of a nondisabled peer, said Carolee Winstein, professor of biokinesiology and physical therapy and the new center’s director... (read more)