Demography and Economics of Aging and the Life Course

老龄化和生命历程的人口统计学和经济学

• 批准号: 6818330
• 负责人: DAVID M. BLAU
• 金额: $ 25.23万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6818330
• 关键词: aging; biomedical facility; human population study

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：卡罗莱纳人口中心（CPC）要求支持北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（UNC-CH）的人口统计学和老龄化研究经济学（DEAR）中心。DEAR中心将设在CPC，并将与UNC-CH的老龄化研究所（IoA）合作，支持人口老龄化研究项目。DEAR中心将建立并扩展北卡罗来纳大学医学院正在进行的DEAR项目。DEAR中心将继续并扩大该方案支持的活动：(1)为试点项目提供小额赠款，以支持制定外部资金提案；(2)支持一个安全的数据设施，用于分析限制使用的人口老龄化和CPC的其他数据；(3)邀请校外知名演讲者到校园讨论他们的人口老龄化研究；(4)支持一个工作组，促进对人口老龄化有研究兴趣的UNCCH学者之间的合作。DEAR中心将有一个行政和研究支持核心以及一个项目开发核心。DEAR中心服务的科学界包括23个从事人口老龄化研究兴趣的教员附属机构，其中13人在总共20项外部资助的老龄化相关主题研究中担任首席研究员。其中9项活跃拨款是与DEAR相关的主题。DEAR项目附属机构调查的研究课题涵盖了人口老龄化领域的广泛领域，主要集中在以下主题：