Demography and Economics of Aging and the Life Course

描述（由申请人提供）：卡罗莱纳人口中心（CPC）请求支持人口统计学和老龄化研究经济学（DEAR）中心在北卡罗来纳州大学在查佩尔山（UNC-CH）。DEAR中心将设在CPC，并将与UNC-CH的老龄化研究所（IoA）合作，以支持人口老龄化的研究计划。该中心将继续并扩大该方案支助的活动：（1）为试点项目提供小额赠款，以支持拟订外部供资提案;（2）支持建立一个安全的数据设施，用于分析保护竞争委员会限制使用的人口老龄化和其他数据;（3）将杰出的外部演讲者带到校园讨论他们的人口老龄化研究;（4）支持一个工作组，以促进人口老龄化研究兴趣的UNCCH学者之间的合作。DEAR中心将有一个行政和研究支持核心和一个项目开发核心。由DEAR中心服务的科学界包括23个具有人口老龄化研究兴趣的教职员工，其中13人担任主要研究人员，共20个外部资助的老龄化相关主题的研究赠款。其中9项活动赠款涉及与DEAR相关的主题。DEAR计划的附属机构调查的研究课题涵盖了广泛的人口老龄化领域，并集中在以下主题： 1.人口老龄化对劳动力参与、退休期间的收入保障以及老年人退休、储蓄和生活水平的决定因素的影响; 2.老年人健康、功能能力、慢性病、残疾和死亡率的变化对长期护理安排和医疗支出的影响; 3.在生命过程中，健康与人口、社会和经济因素之间的联系; 4.发展中国家的营养转型及其对老年人慢性病发病率上升的影响，如关节炎、糖尿病、高血压、肾衰竭和冠心病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Carolina Population Center (CPC) requests support for the Demography and Economics of Aging Research (DEAR) Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). The DEAR Center will be housed at CPC and will collaborate with the Institute on Aging (IoA) at UNC-CH to support a research program in population aging. The DEAR Center will build on and extend the on-going DEAR program at UNC-CH. The DEAR Center will continue and expand the activities supported by the program: (1) awarding small grants for pilot projects to support development of proposals for external funding; (2) supporting a secure data facility for analysis of restricted-use population aging and other data at CPC; (3) bringing prominent outside speakers to campus to discuss their population aging research; and (4) supporting a working group to foster increased collaboration among UNCCH scholars with research interests in population aging. The DEAR Center will have an Administrative and Research Support Core and a Program Development Core. The scientific community served by the DEAR Center includes 23 faculty affiliates with population aging research interests, of whom 13 serve as lead investigators on total of 20 externally funded research grants on aging-related topics. Nine of these active grants are on DEAR related topics. The research topics investigated by affiliates of the DEAR program span a broad range of the population aging field, and are centered on the following themes: 1. Implications of population aging for labor force participation, income security during retirement, and the determinants of retirement, savings, and living standards of the elderly; 2. The implications of changes in health, functional capacity, chronic disease, disability, and mortality among the elderly for long term care arrangements and medical expenditure; 3. The association between health and demographic, social, and economic factors over the life course; and 4. The nutrition transition in developing countries and its implications for the increasing incidence among the elderly of chronic diseases such as arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, renal failure, and coronary disease.