Toward Next Generation Data on Health and Life Changes at Older Ages

本提案的目标是在 中老年人的日常生活。健康和退休研究（HRS）提供了 根据每两年一次的访谈，对中年人和老年人的生活进行重大见解。的 拟议的研究旨在通过使用密集的数据收集和 创新设计，允许非常详细和全面的数据收集接近假设的事件 影响健康和福祉，包括但不限于退休。首先，我们计划管理核心 HRS仪器每两年在理解美国研究（UAS，一个基于概率的互联网 ），这样我们就可以直接与HRS进行比较。第二，我们将监测 通过互联网进行简短的月度评估，其中将包括预期的 事件（如退休、工作变动、婚姻状况变化）和意外事件（如死亡、疾病、 工作变动）;这些评估将标志着立即密集的数据收集“爆发”，以便更好地 将生活环境、健康、行为和幸福的变化联系起来。第三，密集评估将 在整个一周内每天跟踪多个变量域，包括每日疼痛，疲劳，身体 功能、压力、健康、锻炼、饮食、社交、睡眠和认知功能。第四，事件-- 基于突发的测量将嵌入定期的年度密集测量突发中， 作为评估事件影响的基线。第五，我们计划在 对可穿戴传感器的可行性和实用性进行深入评估，其中一些传感器可用于 在研究设计中永久使用。总的来说，我们的目标是为人们的日常生活提供更丰富的画面 无论是在退休之前还是之后，以及其他生活事件，这将使研究的途径，以许多结果， 例如经济和主观幸福感、健康、认知功能和社会参与。我们预计 这些数据将成为研究界的宝贵资源，因为它将更多地转向互联网访谈， 使用新的测量设备。

The goal of this proposal is to capture the progression of events and responses to these events in the everyday life of middle-aged and older individuals. The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) has provided major insights into the lives of middle-aged and older individuals based on interviews every two years. The proposed study aims to advance further understanding through the use of intensive data collection and an innovative design that allows very detailed and comprehensive data collection proximal to events hypothesized to impact health and wellbeing, including but not limited to retirement. First, we plan to administer the core HRS instrument every two years in the Understanding America Study (UAS, a probability-based Internet panel), so that we have direct comparability with the HRS. Second, we will monitor important events in the lives of older UAS respondents with brief, monthly assessments via the Internet, which will include anticipated events (e.g. retirement, job change, change in marital status) and unanticipated events (e.g. deaths, illnesses, job change); these assessments will signal an immediate intensive “burst” of data collection in order to better link changes in life circumstances, health, behaviors, and well-being. Third, the intensive assessments will track multiple domains of variables on a daily basis over an entire week, including daily pain, fatigue, physical functioning, stress, wellbeing, exercise, diet, social interaction, sleep, and cognitive function. Fourth, the event- based burst measurements will be embedded in the context of regular, annual intensive measurement bursts, which serve as baselines for evaluating the impact of events. Fifth, we plan to conduct experiments within the intensive assessments of the feasibility and utility of wearable sensors, some of which may be adopted for permanent use in the study design. Overall, the goal is to provide a much richer picture of people's daily lives both before and after retirement and other life events that will enable the study of pathways to many outcomes, such as financial and subjective wellbeing, health, cognitive functioning, and social engagement. We expect these data to be a valuable resource for the research community as it moves to more internet interviewing and use of novel measurement devices.