Since 1994, the Home Instead Senior Care® franchise network has been devoted to providing the highest-quality senior home care. Compassionate Home Instead CAREGivers are an invaluable resource in helping families eliminate worry, reduce stress and reestablish personal freedom. From Alzheimer’s and dementia support to respite care and companionship, our more than 850 locally owned and operated offices are ready to help seniors live the best, most independent lives possible.
For details about the in-home assisted living services we provide in your area, find your local Home Instead Senior Care office.
Expert in the Field
Stephanie A. Studenski, M.D., M.P.H., who worked with Home Instead Senior Care to create the activities described on this Web site, is a foremost authority and researcher of mobility, balance disorders and falls in older adults. She is a professor in the division of geriatric medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and director of the new Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Studenski also is the director of clinical research for the University of Pittsburgh Institute on Aging and a professor at the university’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and School of Nursing. She is a staff physician at the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Health System Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center and Center for Health Equity Research and Practice.
Additionally, Dr. Studenski has served on the American Geriatrics Society’s research committee and the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Review Group on Aging Systems and Geriatrics.
