In support of our mission to generate and disseminate knowledge that helps to understand aging, Scripps Gerontology Center has a broad research agenda.  Current research includes health, disability, and longevity; long-term care policy, systems, and services; workforce issues and older workers; income security; racial and ethnic diversity and aging; translational health; quality improvement; persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other related conditions; global aging; technology and aging; caregiving, and demography.  The Center assists faculty and students with research proposals and projects related to aging and awards several graduate assistantships each year.  In addition, Scripps Gerontology Center specializes in evaluation research and provides high quality applied research to legislators, public administrators, planners, service providers, gerontology students, academicians, other researchers, and the general public.