Trajectories of Aging and Care In Nursing Science

说明：（来自申请人的摘要）TRAC的总体目标 中心是为了提高护士调查员的能力，检查模式 随着时间的推移和不同地区的老年人的健康、疾病和护理 包括家庭和机构。具体目标是：1）研究 生物、心理、社会和环境因素对老年人健康模式影响 作为开发创新方法的基础， 老龄化和护理的轨迹。2)制定旨在改善 预防疾病或功能下降的干预措施的效力， 从疾病中恢复和恢复功能，支持和加强 可能的，死亡的过程，并帮助老年人达到或保持高 生活质量3)提高新老护士的工作效率 科学家从事与衰老和护理轨迹相关的研究。 4)开展新的合作研究，探讨影响人口轨迹的因素。 老龄化和护理，并扩大现有的合作与调查人员从 爱荷华州大学老年护理研究中心和其他NINR 研究中心。试点/可行性研究核心将支持 开发、审查和及时完成高绩效试点/可行性 研究集中在衰老和护理的轨迹上。行政核心将 整合和协调中心的所有组成部分，并提供 纵向研究设计和分析方面的培训和咨询，以及 简化了纵向数据库的访问，以研究影响 健康和护理轨迹在以后的生活，提供了经验基础， 确定护理干预的潜在目标。TRAC中心将 汇集了来自不同领域的护士科学家和领先的研究人员， 学科进行护士指导的跨学科研究，将 加强设计和测试干预措施的科学基础， 优化晚年的健康、疾病和护理轨迹， 避免健康状况过早下降的可能性， 病人和家属都理解不可避免的下降， 认识到不良后果并有针对性地采取干预措施。

DESCRIPTION: (from applicant's Abstract) The overall goal of the TRAC Center is to enhance the capacity for nurse investigators to examine patterns of health, illness, and care among the elderly over time and across diverse settings, including home and institution. Specific aims are to: 1)Study the influence of biopsychosocial and environmental factors on patterns of health in later life as a basis for developing innovative approaches to optimizing trajectories of aging and care. 2) Develop approaches aimed at improving the efficacy of interventions to prevent disease or declines in function, promote recovery from illness and restoration of function, support and enhance where possible, the dying process, and help older adults attain or maintain a high quality of life. 3)Enhance the productivity of both new and established nurse scientists engaged in research related to trajectories of aging and care. 4)Develop new collaborative research on factors influencing trajectories of aging and care and expand existing collaboration with investigators from the Gerontological Nursing Research Center at the University of Iowa and other NINR Research centers. A Pilot/Feasibility Studies Core will support the development, review, and timely completion of high merit pilot/feasibility studies focused on trajectories of aging and care. An Administrative Core will integrate and coordinate all components of the Center, and provide both training and consultation in longitudinal research design and analysis, and streamlined access to longitudinal databases to study factors that influence health and care trajectories in later life, providing an empirical basis for identifying potential targets for nursing intervention. The TRAC Center will bring together nurse scientists and leading investigators from a variety of disciplines to conduct nurse directed interdisciplinary studies that will strengthen the scientific basis for designing and testing interventions that optimize trajectories of health, illness and care in later life, to increase the likelihood that premature decline in health status is avoided, that inevitable decline is understood by patients and families, and that avoidable adverse outcomes are recognized and targeted for intervention.