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PhD, RN
Nursing Assistant Professor Ladda Thiamwong works with elderly patients and tackles one of the most pressing issues facing this population: the mental and physical instability surrounding life-threatening falls.
With the help of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, Thiamwong has developed a treatment regiment for aging patients, which assesses not only their physical abilities but their perceptions about falling.
It’s a holistic approach she began investigating 15 years ago as a nurse in Thailand and which she has now continued at UCF. The National Institutes of Aging awarded her a $149,000 grant in September 2020 to study this phenomena during the course of two years.
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