Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging

描述(由申请人提供)：这项提案要求为密歇根大学的P30老龄化人口统计中心续期提供资金。在密歇根大学社会科学研究优势的基础上，在我们现有的NIA P30老龄化中心拨款的帮助下，密歇根大学已成为人口统计学和老龄化经济学研究的领先者。在过去的五年里，我们增加了专门从事老龄研究的新的初级和高级教员，并在我们现有的教员中极大地扩大了老龄研究的组合。作为用于老龄化研究的主要纵向调查的发源地，以及使用这些调查的众多分析项目，以及随着大量国际老龄化研究的发展，关于老龄化的研究已成为校园核心社会科学单元关注的主要焦点。我们相信，这项拟议的P30中心拨款将使密歇根州的老龄研究取得更大进展，并将使我们能够帮助国内和国际老龄研究的发展。 密歇根中心将侧重于以下科学主题和方法：健康、工作和退休；慢性病和残疾的趋势；老年人的生活安排；种族、族裔和社会经济地位；特定疾病的人口学和经济学。在追求这些主题的过程中，我们要求按照《框架协议》的规定，在核心下提供支持。一些主要活动如下。核心：围绕主任、副主任、咨询委员会、行政支助工作人员、一名计算机专家和一名数据管理专家建立的行政和研究支助核心；新方案的开发，包括试点项目和通过招聘和扩大现有教员的老龄化活动来支持教师发展；创新的外部网络，包括国际网络和侧重于美国的残疾网络；外联和传播活动，包括网站、出版物、讲习班和国际比较数据资源；分析受限数据的技术，包括统计数据飞地的运作；协调中心的服务和服务，包括维护所有中心的网站，开发电子通讯，组织整个方案的会议和报告。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests renewal funding for a P30 Center on the Demography of Aging at the University of Michigan. Building on Michigan's strengths in social science research, and aided by our existing NIA P30 aging center grant, the University of Michigan has become a leader in research on the demography and economics of aging. In the past five years we have added new junior and senior faculty specializing in aging research and have greatly expanded the portfolio of aging research among our existing faculty. As the home of major longitudinal surveys used for research on aging, along with numerous analytical projects using those surveys, and with the development of a large body of international aging research, research on aging has become a major focus of attention in core social science units on campus. We are confident that this proposed P30 center grant will lead to even greater advances in aging research at Michigan, and will allow us to assist in the development of aging research nationally and internationally. The Michigan Center will focus on the following scientific themes and approaches: health, work and retirement; trends in chronic disease and disability; living arrangements of the elderly; race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; demography and economics of specific diseases. In pursuing these themes, we are requesting support under Cores, as defined in the RFA. Some of the major activities are as follows. Cores: administrative and research support core built around the Director, Co-Director, Advisory Committee, administrative support staff, a computing specialist, and a data management specialist; new program development, including pilot projects and support for faculty development through both recruitment and the expansion of aging activity among existing faculty; innovative external networks including international networks and a disability network focusing on the U.S; outreach and dissemination activities including web site, publications, workshops, and a comparative international data resource; techniques for analysis of restricted data, including operation of a statistical data enclave; and services of Coordinating Center, including maintaining an all-centers' web site, developing an electronic newsletter, and organizing meetings and reports for the program as a whole.