Coordinating Center for the NIA Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Related Dementias

项目概要/摘要 现在，在其第27个年头，NIA人口和老龄化中心计划的经济学已经成功， 实现发展创新研究和下一代技术的主要目标， 人口学和老龄化经济学的学者。老龄化领域在这一时期迅速扩大， D&E中心发挥了关键作用。新的领域和新的方向已经出现（例如，人口 遗传学、国家人口调查范围内的生物测量数据收集），主要是由于越来越多的交叉- 中心鼓励的学科合作。D&E中心协调中心一直是一个 重点在这个研究基础设施，促进协同作用和效率，并最大限度地提高效益， 方案的整体影响。这是通过协调中心的职能来实现的，协调中心负责 作为沟通的纽带，简化D&E中心之间的信息共享，与NIA，以及 公众 协调中心设在密歇根大学老龄人口学中心 （MiCDA）几乎贯穿了整个计划的历史。这一建议是建立在 MiCDA协调中心将创建一个新的独立协调中心， 已建立的联系、重要的实质性专业知识和可供建设和扩大的现成基础设施。 新的协调中心将扩大其实质性的职权范围，包括阿尔茨海默病和老年痴呆症 疾病相关性痴呆（ADRD）。为了最大限度地促进跨学科研究的发展，其使命还将 扩大以促进D&E中心和其他NIA中心之间的合作，每个中心都有不同的 使命、文化和精神。一个主要的努力方向将是支持早期职业调查人员开始 关于NIA中心之间的合作最后，协调中心将与人口基金合作， 参考资料局制作具有广泛吸引力的传播材料， 综合了各中心的研究成果。与PRB合作扩大了该计划的影响 研究流形。

Project Summary/Abstract Now in its 27th year, the NIA Demography and Economics of Aging Centers Program has been successful in accomplishing the main objectives of developing both innovative lines of research and the next generation of scholars in the demography and economics of aging. The field of aging has expanded rapidly over this period, and the D&E Centers have played a key role. New areas and new directions have emerged (e.g., population genetics, biomeasure collection within national population-based surveys), largely as a result of increasing cross- disciplinary collaborations encouraged by the Centers. The D&E Centers Coordinating Center has been a keystone in this research infrastructure, promoting synergy and efficiency and maximizing the effectiveness and impact of the Program overall. This is achieved through the functions of the Coordinating Center, which serves as the nexus of communication, streamlining information-sharing across the D&E Centers, with NIA, and to the public. The Coordinating Center has been housed at the University of Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA) for nearly the entire history of the Program. This proposal builds on the successful model instituted by the MiCDA Coordinating Center to create a new independent Coordinating Center, with all the advantage of established connections, significant substantive expertise, and ready infrastructure on which to build and expand. The new Coordinating Center will expand its substantive purview to include Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (ADRD). To maximize the growth of cross disciplinary research, its mission will also expand to promote collaborative work between the D&E Centers and other NIA Centers, each with different mission, cultures, and ethos. A major thrust of effort will be on supporting early career investigators to embark on collaborations across NIA Centers. Lastly, the Coordinating Center will collaborate with the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) to produce dissemination materials with broad appeal that are aggregated and synthesized research findings from the Centers. Partnering with PRB magnifies the impact of the Program research manifold.