Physical, Cognitive and Mental Health in Social Context

描述(由申请人提供)：佛罗里达大学(UF)老龄化研究所(IOA)寻求资金支持其博士前研究-培训计划，研究社会背景下的身体、认知和心理健康的老龄化。由于密歇根大学健康科学和文科校园的共同定位和合作，正如本提案中记录的强大合作水平所表明的那样，密歇根大学位于靠近城市和农村环境的地方，处于独特的地位，可以在一个社会多元化的国家提供健康和疾病的心理社会因素(例如，老年认知下降的感觉运动先兆)方面的培训。培训计划由一名培训总监领导，他在一种特定模式下拥有七年以上的经验，其中包括多学科研究培训和强有力的学科教育。UF最近重振了对老龄化研究的投资，尽管其对老龄化的机构承诺(其第一个老龄化中心的成立证明了这一点)已有50多年的历史。仅在过去两年里，密歇根大学就聘用了14名(迄今)新的老教师。目前，已有40多名教职员工在IOA中被评为“核心培训学院”，涵盖心理学、社会学、护理学、理疗学、职业治疗学、医学、地理学、听力学、语言学、室内设计等学科。该小组致力于在一个项目中指导学生，该项目包括同时录取一个纪律部门(博士)。以及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)分配给多学科指导团队的每个学生，确切地说，是在他们到达的第一天，包括一名主要导师，形成绩效模型，在每个学年开始时，学生与他们的指导团队一起在研究、教育和服务领域设定与职业规划相关的可量化目标。全年的指导团队会议，以评估和支持目标的进展；(3)每周一次的校园范围内的系列研讨会，以国家演讲者、当地老龄研究人员和专业发展会议为特色；以及(4)需要在老龄化和统计/方法论方面的补充课程。此外，我们的指导团队方法允许我们积极吸引精力充沛的新教师担任主要指导角色，同时用经验丰富、富有成效的高级调查人员补充和补充他们。因此，我们的学生不仅准备在传统科室进行研究，而且还准备在临床研究机构和多学科老年学环境中进行研究。

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.