The emphasis in the area of research and education includes:

• Providing technical assistance, consultation, and sponsorship for faculty and community researchers developing aging research proposals and conducting aging-related research
• Performing community program and service evaluations, needs and resource assessments, and other applied aging-related research and data analysis studies
• Consulting with local, state and federal government and public officials on aging-related issues including the preparation of commissioned position papers and briefs and the performance of program feasibility and analysis studies
• Disseminating aging research and best practice innovation by means of professional, scholarly and lay publications and presentations