ENHANCING MOBILITY IN THE ELDERLY--PILOT PROJECTS

UAB Roybal中心的试点项目计划模块旨在 促进和便利试点项目的开发、执行和实施 有助于中心整体研究使命的项目。 试点研究应有助于实现中心的最终目标，即 制定和评价干预措施，以加强 并尽量减少或消除 流动性问题。试点项目计划将通过以下方式进行管理： UAB Roybal中心的管理核心，并将在一个 中心联合主任（辛西娅·奥斯利博士）负责日常工作。 每年将资助三至四个试点项目。征集建议书 通过校园邮件、校园报纸和电子邮件。建议 将由相关专家审查其科学价值和方案 与中心的相关性。选举委员会的代表来自 中心管理核心和个人研究项目，主席 单元主任将审查审查结果，并向 中心主任。每年至少有一个项目将专门用于 解决非洲裔美国老年人的流动性问题， 研究得不到充分服务的人口的重要性， 我们地理区域的人口统计。试点项目将是 通过检查每个项目在多大程度上 为科学文献提供了有用的数据， 设计和资助未来的研究，并导致最终 转移前五年的研究成果，并与此声音 跟踪记录，我们希望本文所述的试点项目计划 UAB Roybal中心的关键方面。

The Pilot Project Program module of the UAB Roybal Center is designed to foster and facilitate the development and execution and execution of pilot projects which contribute to the overall research mission of the Center. Pilot studies should contribute toward the Center's ultimate goals, namely intervention development and evaluation in order to enhance mobility in the elderly and to minimize or eliminate the adverse consequence of mobility problems. The Pilot Project Program will be administered through the Management Core of the UAB Roybal Center, and will be directed on a day-to-day basis by the Co-Director of the Center (Dr.Cynthia Owsley). Three to four pilot projects will be funded each year. A call for proposal through campus mail, the campus newspaper, and electronic mail. Proposals will be reviewed be relevant experts for scientific merit and programmatic relevance to the Center. A Selection Committee of representatives from the Center's Management Core and individual research projects and chaired by the module director will examine reviews and make recommendations to the Center Director. At least one project per year will be devoted to addressing mobility problems in African American older adults, given the importance of studying under-served populations and also given the demographics of our geographic area. The Pilot Project Program will be systematically evaluated by examining the extent to which each project contributes to the scientific literature generates data useful in the design and funding of future research studies, and leads to the eventual transfer of research findings in the previous five, and with this sound track record, we expect the Pilot Project Program described herein to be critical aspect of the UAB Roybal Center.