Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份继续密歇根大学和韦恩州立大学的密歇根城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心（MCUAAAR）的申请。 这个拟议的资源中心的总体目标是促进高质量的学术和实证培训，研究和干预措施，重点是促进老年种族和少数民族人口的健康和健康。 该应用程序建立在这两个国家机构的教师和学生的工作和专业知识的基础上，以实证研究非洲裔美国人在生命过程中的健康不平等。 我们很幸运地发展了一批知识渊博的研究人员，并吸引了大量的多民族教师和研究生，他们对黑人和其他少数民族人口的老龄化和人类发展研究感兴趣。 我们建议继续MCUAAAR作为一个行政，培训和科学研究组织之间的密歇根大学的计划研究黑人美国人（PRBA）和生命历程发展（LCD）在社会研究所，护理学院，公共卫生学院，老年学研究所，护理学院和城市研究中心在韦恩州立大学，和社区组织（CBO）在大底特律都市区。 这个拟议中的少数民族老龄化资源中心建立在其他合作研究和行政安排之间的UM，WSU和社区组织。 建议的资源中心将包括四个相互作用的组成部分：1）行政核心将提供行政支持，促进知识交流，并提供建议的中心内的整体协调，并与其他大学单位和社区卫生服务网站; 2）社区联络核心将加强现有的社区研究和服务关系，领导关于社区参与者参与的“科学”研究，并为拟议的试点研究和干预工作提供合作社区答卷人来源; 3）研究者发展核心将识别，选择，指导对少数群体老年人健康问题的研究和干预感兴趣的多学科和多文化调查人员，并支持努力发展指导少数群体调查人员的“科学”; 4）测量核心将作为培训和研究的焦点，并在完善和磨练所有研究人员的研究兴趣方面发挥领导作用，特别是进行试点研究的年轻研究人员。 最后，我们建议作为RCMAR协调中心，并协助在少数民族老龄化研究资源中心，NIA，公众和其他NIA支持的努力，例如阿尔茨海默氏症，休克，Roybal和胡椒中心的选定国家组之间提供知识和行政联系。 总之，拟议的MCUAAAR将提供一个全面的组合，既有新的试点方法，范围广泛的拟议的文化敏感的研究和干预活动，以及一个多学科和多民族的团队，成熟的研究人员和适当指导的早期调查。 首席执行官：James S.杰克逊是密歇根大学社会研究所的教授和研究科学家。 核 核心A：管理，詹姆斯·S·杰克逊和彼得·利钦伯格 描述（申请人提供）：密歇根州城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心（MCUAAAR）请求支持的总体目标是继续提供资源，促进对少数族裔老年人，特别是非裔美国人老年人的健康研究，这将导致促进健康，减少和消除健康差距，正如《2010年健康人民》所呼吁的那样，NIA 2000-2005年战略计划。 MCUAAAR努力的例子包括继续发展其成功的指导计划，重点是建立一个致力于成为健康和老龄化领域富有成效的学者的少数民族调查人员网络。 只有在健康研究中有效地招募和留住非裔美国人和其他少数族裔老年人，才有可能促进健康，减少和消除健康差距。 我们将继续在这一领域开展富有成效的研究计划，并继续接触底特律市的老年人，明确目的是建立在我们开发的同意为健康研究目的联系的个人数据库基础上。 我们已经证明了我们在过去五年期间形成富有成效的合作关系的能力，并将在此资助期间继续并扩大我们与NIA阿尔茨海默病研究中心，NIA Claude Pepper独立中心，人口研究中心和NACDA的合作。 在过去的五年里，我们已经加入了广泛的相关NIA中心，大学和社区组织在我们的两个主要机构和该地区，以及在全国各地的选择机构。 在密歇根大学（UM）和韦恩州立大学（WSU）的优势的基础上，我们的一套特定的相关位点将是对健康和健康促进的研究，特别强调我们在认知功能和功能障碍，认知评价和感知方面的相对研究优势，因为它们与广泛的健康结果和疾病，促进独立性，以及了解人口和社会变化如何与老年非裔美国人和其他少数民族的健康差距及其消除有关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application to continue the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. The overall objective of this proposed resource center is to foster high quality scholarly and empirical training, research, and interventions focused upon health promotion and health among older racial and ethnic minority populations. This application builds upon the work and expertise of faculty and students in these two state institutions to empirically investigate African American health inequalities over the life-course. We have been fortunate in developing a knowledgeable group of research personnel and attracting to each university a large number of multi-ethnic faculty and graduate students with interests in the study of aging and human development in black and other minority populations. We propose to continue the MCUAAAR as an administrative, training, and scientific research organization among the University of Michigan's Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) and Life-Course Development (LCD) at the Institute for Social Research, School of Nursing, School of Public Health, the Institute of Gerontology, School of Nursing and Urban Studies Center at Wayne State University, and community based organizations (CBO) in the greater Detroit Metropolitan area. This proposed minority aging resource center builds on other cooperative research and administrative arrangements between UM, WSU and community based organizations. The proposed resource center will contain four interacting components: 1) the Administrative Core will provide administrative support, facilitate intellectual interchange, and provide overall coordination within the proposed Center and with other university units and community health service sites; 2) the Community Liaison Core will strengthen existing community research and service relationships, lead in the research on the "science" of community participant involvement, and provide sources of cooperating community respondents for the proposed pilot research and intervention efforts; 3) the Investigator Development Core will identify, select, and mentor multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural investigators interested in research and interventions on the health of minority elders and support efforts to develop a "science" of mentoring minority investigators; and, 4) the Measurement Core will serve as a training and research focal point and assume leadership in refining and honing the research interests of all the investigators, but especially young investigators conducting pilot studies. Finally, we propose to serve as the RCMAR Coordinating Center and assist in providing intellectual and administrative ties among the selected national group of Resource Centers on Minority Aging Research, the NIA, public and other NIA supported efforts, e.g. Alzheimer's, Shock, Roybal and Pepper Centers. In sum, the proposed MCUAAAR will provide a comprehensive mix of established and new pilot methodologies, a broad scope of proposed culturally sensitive research and intervention activities, and a multi-disciplinary and multi-ethnic team of established researchers and appropriately mentored early investigators. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. James S. Jackson is a professor and research scientist in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. CORES CORE A: Administrative, Drs. James S. Jackson and Peter Lichenberg DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of this request for support of the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) is for continued resources to promote health research on minority elders, particularly African American elders, that will lead to health promotion and the reduction and elimination of health disparities as called for in Healthy People 2010 through several approaches consistent with the NIA's 2000-2005 Strategic Plan. Examples of MCUAAAR's efforts include continued development of its successful mentoring program focused on building a network of minority investigators who are committed to becoming productive scholars in the area of health and aging. Health promotion and the reduction and elimination of health disparities is only possible with the effective recruitment and retention of African American and other minority elders in health research. We will continue to build upon our productive research program in this area and continue to reach out to seniors in the city of Detroit with the explicit purpose of building upon our developed databases of individuals who have agreed to be contacted for health research purposes. We have demonstrated our ability to form productive, collaborative relationships over the prior five-year period and will continue and extend our collaborations in this grant period with NIA Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers, NIA Claude Pepper Centers for Independence, the Population Studies Center and the NACDA at the Institute for Social Research. During the last five year period we have joined with a wide set of relevant NIA Centers, university, and community organizations at our two main institutions and in the region, as well as at select institutions around the country. Building on the strengths at the University of Michigan (UM) and Wayne State University (WSU), our specific set of related loci will be research on health and health promotion with a special emphasis on our relative research strengths in cognitive functioning and dysfunction, cognitive appraisal, and perception as they relate to a wide range of health outcomes and disorders, the promotion of independence, and the understanding of how demographic and social changes relate to health disparities and their elimination among older African Americans and other minority populations.