Diane A. Thompson, MSN, MD, is a board-certified physician in Lifestyle Medicine and Neurorehabilitation and a Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP) with extensive experience in rehabilitation, preventive health, brain health, functional health, and senior wellness. Throughout her career, she has brought together medical expertise, rehabilitation, lifestyle medicine, and a deep understanding of the factors that help people maintain health, function, independence, and quality of life as they age.

Today, Dr. Thompson serves as a Director of Health & Wellness within a continuing care senior living community, where she applies her clinical and leadership experience to help create a healthier, more engaged community. Her work includes developing strategies to reduce falls and prevent avoidable health decline, identifying factors that may contribute to resident attrition, coordinating health and wellness resources, and developing evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine programming designed to support residents in maintaining their health, function, cognitive vitality, and independence.

Her current work builds on earlier experience developing and implementing a Lifestyle Medicine program within an outpatient cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program. That experience reinforced her belief that rehabilitation should not simply help people recover after illness or injury, but can also serve as a foundation for prevention, risk reduction, and long-term healthy living.

Dr. Thompson's background in neurorehabilitation, combined with her dementia-practitioner training, has given her particular expertise in brain health, cognition, mobility, balance, falls prevention, and functional independence. Her training and experience in Lifestyle Medicine provide an evidence-based framework for addressing the major modifiable factors that influence healthy aging, including nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress, social connection, and other lifestyle behaviors.

She now brings these experiences together to help both individuals and senior living communities approach aging more proactively. For individuals, she develops practical programs and “RESETS” that translate the science of healthy aging into manageable steps people can incorporate into everyday life. For senior living communities, she provides consulting, education, and training to help leaders develop and implement evidence-based wellness initiatives, including falls prevention, brain health and cognitive wellness, and Lifestyle Medicine programming.

Dr. Thompson believes that healthy aging is about more than simply adding years to life. It is about preserving the health, function, cognitive vitality, independence, purpose, and quality of life that allow people to thrive as they age. Her goal is to use the full breadth of her medical training, rehabilitation experience, Lifestyle Medicine expertise, dementia-practitioner training, and current senior-living leadership experience to help individuals and communities do exactly that.