David Coon
· Director, Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging, Co-Director, ASU Roybal Center, Foundation ProfessorArizona State University · Nursing and Healthcare Innovation
Active 1994–2026
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About
David W. Coon is associate dean of research initiatives, support, and engagement and professor in the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University. He serves as the director of the Center for Innovation in Healthy & Resilient Aging. After earning his Ph.D. from Stanford University, he was associate director of the Older Adult Center of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and the Stanford University School of Medicine, as well as a research scientist at the UCSF/Mt. Zion Institute on Aging. Professor Coon designs and evaluates interventions such as CarePRO and EPIC that focus on culturally diverse groups of midlife and older adults facing chronic illnesses including dementia, cancer, and depression, along with their family caregivers. Several of these empirically based treatments have been recognized by the American Psychological Association, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Administration on Aging’s Alzheimer’s Disease Supportive Services Program, among others. A fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, he has received funding from federal agencies such as the NIH and ACL/AoA, as well as foundation grants. Professor Coon and his community partners have been honored with awards including The Rosalynn Carter Institute’s 2013 National Leadership Award in Caregiving for CarePRO, the 2013 ASU President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness, the 2017 Arizona Health Care Association Innovation Award for the Music…
Research topics
- Gerontology
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Physical therapy
- Demography
- Psychology
Selected publications
Frontiers in Public Health · 2021 · 32 citations
Effective strategies are needed to promote safe and socially-distanced PA among adults aged >50 years until the risk of contracting COVID-19 subsides. In the post-pandemic era, PA programming will be imperative to address pandemic-associated declines in PA.
Clinical Gerontologist · 2022 · 21 citations
1st authorCorrespondingMaintaining brain health and promoting healthy lifestyle strategies to manage modifiable risk factors is vital to ensuring well-being for all - not only for the individuals with memory challenges but also their family caregivers and professional providers. In this brief review paper, we highlight modifiable risk and protective factors and opportunities for dementia risk reduction (e.g., limited alcohol use and reduced exposure to air pollution, secondhand smoke, and excessive noise); provide an…
The Gerontologist · 2025-05-30 · 3 citations
articleSenior authorBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Falls are an increasing problem among older adults. Older adults' self-report of falls is the primary method of fall risk identification. However, up to 72% of Medicare beneficiaries who have fallen do not report falls and fall-related injuries to their healthcare providers. Research suggests that older adults prefer the term "balance problems" instead of "fall risk." The purpose of this study was to examine if perceived balance problem is a predictor of self-reported…
Hispanic Health Care International · 2024-11-25 · 2 citations
articleIntroduction: The research community has struggled to successfully recruit and retain Hispanic participants into research studies. The purpose of our study is to describe Hispanic enrollment into our study across the past decade. We sought to identify trends in Hispanic engagement in internet-based recruitment over three distinct time periods including the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: MindCrowd (MC) is a web-based research study that aims to identify potential factors influencing age-related cogn…
Gerontology · 2025-09-25 · 1 citations
articleINTRODUCTION: MindCrowd is an online cognitive health platform that engages adults in a 10-min experience, including the paired-associates learning (PAL) test, a demographic survey, and an option to be contacted for future research. This study's objective was to identify factors associated with consent to research studies. METHODS: Adults from US zip codes, who joined MindCrowd from June 17, 2022 to December 31, 2024 and agreed to be contacted for future research, were eligible for the study. Ou…
Recent grants
NIH · $146k · 2011
NIH · $465k · 2005
Frequent coauthors
- 57 shared
Dolores Gallagher‐Thompson
Stanford University
- 44 shared
Larry W. Thompson
Stanford University
- 18 shared
Brent T. Mausbach
University of California, San Diego
- 16 shared
Marcia G. Ory
Texas A&M University
- 14 shared
Bronwynne C. Evans
Arizona State University
- 13 shared
David Latini
Baylor College of Medicine
- 12 shared
Molly Maxfield
Arizona State University
- 12 shared
Julie Fleury
Arizona State University
Education
- 1996
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology
Stanford University
- 1983
Other, Counseling (Cross-cultural emphasis)
University of Oklahoma
- 1980
B.A., Foreign Service/Public Affairs
University of Oklahoma
- 1980
B.A., Linguistics/Cross-cultural Communication
University of Oklahoma
Awards & honors
- The Rosalynn Carter Institute’s 2013 National Leadership Awa…
- 2013 ASU President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness
- 2017 Arizona Health Care Association Innovation Award for th…
- 2019 Arizona Caregiver Coalition's David Besst Award
- 2024 M. Powell Lawton Award for Distinguished Contributions…
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