Physical, Cognitive and Mental Health in Social Context

描述（由申请人提供）：老龄化研究所（IoA）在佛罗里达大学（UF）寻求资金，以支持其博士前研究培训计划在社会背景下的身体，认知和心理健康老化。随着用友的健康科学和文科校园之间的共同定位和合作，正如本提案中记录的强大的合作水平所证明的那样，位于城市和农村环境附近，用友具有独特的优势，可以提供健康和疾病的心理社会因素的培训（例如，感觉运动前因的认知能力下降的老化），在社会多元化的国家。该培训计划由一位培训总监领导，他拥有超过七年的特定模式经验，包括多学科研究培训和强大的学科教育。用友最近重振了其在老龄化研究的投资，虽然其机构承诺老龄化（证明了其第一个老龄化中心的建立）是超过50岁。仅在过去的两年中，14个新的老龄化教师（迄今为止）已在用友聘请。目前，超过40名教师已确定自己为“核心培训学院”在IoA，代表心理学，社会学，护理，物理治疗，职业治疗，医学，地理，听力学，语言学，室内设计等学科。这个小组致力于指导学生在一个程序，其中包括同时录取纪律部门（博士）。和IOA博士前研究培训计划。IoA培训计划的核心组成部分包括：（1）分配多学科指导团队的每个学生，从他们到达的第一天开始，包括一个主要的导师形成绩效模型，学生开始每个学年与他们的指导团队在研究，教育和服务领域设定职业规划相关的量化目标。全年辅导团队会议，以评估和支持目标的进展;（3）每周一次的校园范围内的座谈会系列具有顶级国家发言人，当地研究人员在老龄化，和专业发展会议;和（4）所需的补充课程在老龄化和统计/方法。此外，我们的指导团队的方法使我们能够积极从事精力充沛的新教师在主要mentoting角色，同时补充和补充他们与经验丰富，富有成效的高级调查员。因此，我们的学生不仅准备在传统部门的研究，而且在临床研究设施和多学科老年学环境。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Institute on Aging (IoA) at the University of Florida (UF) seeks funding to support its predoctoral research-training program in aging of physical, cognitive and mental health in social contexts. With the co-location and cooperation between UF's health sciences and liberal arts campuses, as evinced by the strong levels of collaboration documented in this proposal, located close to urban and rural environments, UF is uniquely positioned to offer training in the psychosocial elements of health and disease (e.g., sensorimotor antecedents of cognitive decline in aging), in a socially diverse State. The training program is led by a Training Director with over seven years of experience with a particular model that includes multidisciplinary research training coupled with strong disciplinary education. UF has recently reinvigorated its investment in aging research, although its institutional commitment to aging (as evidenced by the establishment of its first Center on aging) is over 50 years old. In the past two years alone, 14 new aging faculty (to date) have been hired at UF. At present, over 40 faculty have identified themselves as "Core Training Faculty" in the IoA, representing the disciplines of psychology, sociology, nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, medicine, geography, audiology, linguistics, interior design, and others. This group is committed to mentoring students in a program that includes simultaneous admission to a disciplinary department (for the Ph.D.) and to the IoA Predoctoral Research Training program. The core components of the IoA training program include: (1) assignment of each student of multi-disciplinary mentoring team, literally on their first day of arrival, including a primary mentor form the performance model, in which students begin each academic year with their mentoring team to set career plan-relevant quantifiable goals in the domains of research, education, and service. Mentoring team meetings throughout the year to assess and support goal progress; (3) a weekly campus-wide colloquium series featuring atop national speakers, local researchers in aging, and professional development sessions; and (4) required supplemental coursework in Aging and Statistics/Methodology. In addition, our mentoring team approach allows us to actively engage energetic newer faculty in primary mentoting roles, while supplementing and complementing them with seasoned, productive senior investigators. Our students are therefore poised not only for research in traditional departments, but also in clinical research facilities, and multidisciplinary gerontology environments.