• FSU researchers receive NIH grant to study effects of resiliency

    Dawn Carr, a professor of sociology and the director of FSU’s Claude Pepper Center, and Miles Taylor, a professor of sociology and director of FSU’s Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, will be co-principal investigators on the study “Psychological Resilience as a Health Resource in the Context of Stressful Life Events in Later Life.” They will lead a team including Florida State students and outside consultants.

  • Older Workers and Retirement

    The CPC provides policy-informed research related to the economic, quality of life, psychological, and cognitive implications of longer working lives. In addition, with a growing proportion of older adults engaging in some amount of paid work after leaving their primary career jobs, the CPC seeks to provide research and leadership about the changing nature of retirement.

  • Opening Minds through Art (OMA)

    This intergenerational art-making program for people living with dementia was founded at the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University (Ohio) in 2007. OMA was launched at Florida State University in September 2023 with ten interns. Now the program has over fifteen student interns across three majors, as well as volunteers from the Elder Law Clinic. This program aims to build bridges across age and cognitive barriers, promote autonomy, and provide people living with dementia a chance at social engagement.

  • Research Study Highlights Occupational Impact on Cognitive Health in Older Adults

    The research team led by Dr. Qiuchang (Katy) Cao along with Dr. Dawn Carr and Dr. Miles Taylor examined how occupational exposures can be potential mechanisms partially explaining why early life education is beneficial to cognitive health later in life.

  • FSU Claude Pepper Center launches data platform to address aging challenges in Florida

    Florida State University’s Claude Pepper Center has launched the Translational Data Platform, an innovative digital tool designed to provide interactive maps and dashboards that integrate data on behavior, occupation, health and economy across Florida’s aging populations.

The Claude Pepper Center is dedicated to keeping Sen. Pepper’s vision of America and sense of moral purpose central to the nation’s public life. The Claude Pepper Center intends to achieve this mission through research, policy analysis, public information and educational initiatives.

All of our activities are dedicated to sustaining the Senator’s view that “the national attitude toward old people has made a 180-degree turn. More and more, younger generations have come to realize that in their elders they have a precious and useful asset, not a burden. Old people are the same persons they were when they were young. Some may not hear so well, may have to wear glasses, maybe are a step slower when they walk. But they are not useless, and they must not be treated as outcasts, as more and more Americans have come to realize.”

For more information about Senator Claude Pepper, you may visit the Claude Pepper Foundation’s website.

Mission

The Claude Pepper Center aims to identify policy solutions that enhance the financial, psychological, cognitive, physical, and social wellbeing of older adults and their families in the state of Florida and beyond, and help people reach later life with the resources they need to be active and engaged members of their communities.

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Director’s Message

At the Claude Pepper Center, we honor Claude Pepper’s legacy and commitment to the rights and welfare of older people living in Florida and beyond. Our initiatives at the CPC focus on solutions for older people so they may remain independent, engaged members of their communities as long as possible.

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