Dr. Jane Mahoney is an emeritus faculty member of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology within the Department of Medicine. She is the director of the Community-Academic Aging Resource Network (CAARN), which connects faculty from across the University of Wisconsin (UW) campus with diverse community partners from across Wisconsin to facilitate community-engaged research to improve the health of older adults.
In 2024, Dr. Mahoney and collaborators with CAARN received renewed National Institute on Aging funding to collaborate with UW faculty in engineering and computer science to develop new or refine existing assistive technology to improve the health, function, and well-being of older adults in community settings.
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Dr. Mahoney is nationally recognized for her pioneering research in novel interventions to reduce the incidence of falls in community-dwelling elderly. She is an expert on dissemination and implementation of evidence-based prevention programs to community settings; for example, the ‘Stepping On’ falls prevention program is now in use throughout Wisconsin and 21 states. She has conducted epidemiologic studies, randomized controlled trials, and dissemination research studies, and has published on the relationship between falls and impaired cognition, the effect of hospitalization on falls, multifactorial interventions to reduce falls, and changes in mobility and function during and after hospitalization. Dr. Mahoney's research has been supported by peer-reviewed grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.