Rick Rader

Dr. Rader is the Director of the (Orange Grove) Habilitation Center in Chattanooga, TN, and a physician crossed-trained in internal medicine and medical anthropology. His special interests are in the aging process as it relates to individuals with intellectual disability; and especially in the training and education of direct support professionals and health care providers in the area of cognitive decline and dementia. He is a former member of the federal National Council on Disability, the Board President of the American Association on Health and Disability, and editor-in-chief of Helen, The Journal of Human Exceptionality.