Workshop to Investigate Approaches for Large Scale Senior Independent Living Networks

维持老龄化的美国人的健康和福祉提出了重大挑战。研讨会汇集了老年病和生物医学研究、政府、电信、家庭监测公司、制药公司和非营利倡导团体的领导人，以确定将支持家庭监测和评估能力国家网络的战略。智力优势：研讨会将确定与识别、监测和分析跨时间尺度、地点、具体行动、功能能力和生理变化的活动有关的研究挑战和机遇。研讨会将重点关注为大规模分布式纵向研究创建可扩展的基础设施和技术的研究挑战，通过协调收集和分析行为、社会、生物、临床、遗传、经济和环境数据，帮助回答有关老龄化和独立生活的许多未解之谜。预计讲习班将编写一份报告，从技术角度和筹资角度具体举例说明需要什么才能取得进展。更广泛的影响：如果成功，研讨会将有助于确定在创建基础设施和研究网络方面的研究挑战和机遇，这些基础设施和研究网络需要促进对老龄化的理解，并开发更好地支持美国老龄化人口健康和福祉的技术。

Maintaining the health and well-being of the aging US presents significant challenges. The workshop brings together leaders in geriatric and biomedical research, government, telecommunications, home monitoring companies, pharmaceutical companies, and non-profit advocacy groups to identify strategies that will support a national network of home-based monitoring and assessment capabilities. Intellectual Merits: The workshop will identify research challenges and opportunities relating to identification, monitoring, and analysis of activities across multiple time scales, locations, specific actions, functional abilities and physiological changes. The workshop will focus on research challenges in creating a scalable infrastructure and technology for large scale distributed longiitudinal studies that help answer many unanswered questions regarding aging and independent living through coordinated gathering and analysis of behavioral, social, biological, clinical, genetic, economic, and environmental data. The workshop is expected to produce a report, giving concrete examples of what is needed to progress, from a technical standpoint and from a funding perspective. Broader Impacts: If successful, the workshop would help identify the research challenges and opportunities in creating the infrastructure and research networks needed to advance the understanding of aging and to develop technologies that better support the health and wellbeing of the aging population in the US.