Demography and Economics of Aging and the Life Course

描述(由申请者提供)：卡罗莱纳人口中心(CPC)请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经济学研究中心(DEAR)。亲爱的中心将设在CPC，并将与北卡罗来纳大学的老龄化研究所(IOA)合作，支持一项人口老龄化研究计划。亲爱的中心将在北卡罗来纳大学-CH分校正在进行的DEVER计划的基础上再接再厉。亲爱的中心将继续并扩大该计划支持的活动：(1)为试点项目提供小额赠款，以支持外部资金提案的制定；(2)支持一个安全的数据设施，用于分析联合国儿童基金会限制使用的人口老龄化和其他数据；(3)邀请知名的外部演讲者到校园讨论他们的人口老龄化研究；以及(4)支持一个工作组，促进对人口老龄化有研究兴趣的联合国儿童基金会学者之间加强合作。亲爱的中心将有一个行政和研究支持核心和一个项目开发核心。DELE中心服务的科学界包括23个对人口老龄化研究感兴趣的教职员工，其中13人担任总共20个外部资助的与老龄化相关主题的研究补助金的首席研究员。这些正在进行的赠款中有九个是关于相关主题的。DELE方案附属机构调查的研究主题涉及人口老龄化领域的广泛领域，并围绕以下主题展开： 1.人口老龄化对劳动力参与、退休期间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、机能能力、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.健康与生命过程中的人口、社会和经济因素之间的联系；以及 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、肾功能衰竭和冠心病。

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.