Experience Corps Trial/Improving Health Older Population

体验军团试验/改善老年人健康

• 批准号: 7075047
• 负责人: LINDA P FRIED
• 金额: $ 170.1万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7075047
• 关键词: aging; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; elementary school; functional ability; human old age (65+); human subject; middle childhood (6-11); quality of life; volunteer

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With the number of older adults expected to double and the proportion of people 65 and older expected to rise to 22% by 2020, it is critical to develop and test population-based approaches for large scale, effective health promotion for our aging society. This will permit evidence-based decisions as to how to deploy resources in order to have optimal impact on the health of older adults. This Administrative Core supports the operations and overall coordination of a program project dedicated to contributing to this goal by conducting a randomized, controlled trial of the Experience Corps program and its cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit impact locally and societally. This program is a senior volunteer program which places people 60 and older in meaningful roles in public elementary schools, roles designed to have high impact on children's' outcomes; the program attracts and retains older adults, 15 hours per week, for its opportunity to give back. However, designed into the program is a health promotion program, intending to increase social, cognitive and physical activity. This application will, in a University-community-city collaboration, conduct a rigorous evaluation of the impact of the scaled-up program through a randomized controlled evaluation: of older volunteers to determine whether Experience Corps prevents or slows physical disability, falls and cognitive decline (Project 1); of schools, to determine if children improve academically, behaviorally and in readiness to learn as a result of the social capital offered by Experience Corps and, hence, our aging society (Project 2); of the potential mechanisms of program action on brain structure and executive function (Project 3); of program effects on social and psychological mechanisms and outcomes (Project 4); and, finally, we will conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the program, taking impact on both older adults and children into account. The work of the 5 projects and 3 supporting cores will be mutually interconnected and synergistic, and will be interdigitated through a Steering Committee and an Executive Committee operated within this Administrative Core (Core A). This Core will project coordination and interdigitation, overall organization and budget management for all Projects and cores, monitor progress and effectiveness, produce reports, organize DSMB meetings, and coordinate community relations. Overall, this program project is designed to evaluate the utility and effectiveness of Experience Corps as a social model for health promotion for an aging society.

描述（由申请人提供）：预计老年人的数量预计将增加一倍，而65岁及65岁以上的人的比例预计到2020年将上升到22％，至关重要的是，开发和测试基于人群的大规模方法，为我们的衰老社会有效促进健康的方法。这将允许关于如何部署资源以对老年人的健康产生最佳影响的基于证据的决定。该行政核心支持一个计划项目的运营和整体协调，该项目致力于为这一目标做出贡献，通过对体验团计划进行随机，对照试验及其成本效益和成本效益和成本效益的影响。该计划是一项高级志愿者计划，将60岁及以上的人在公立小学中扮演有意义的角色，旨在对儿童的成果产生重大影响；该计划每周15小时吸引并保留老年人，以便回馈。但是，该计划设计的是健康促进计划，旨在增加社交，认知和体育锻炼。该应用程序将在大学社区城市的合作中进行严格的评估，以通过随机对照评估来对扩展计划的影响进行严格的评估：老年志愿者确定经验群岛是否可以防止或减慢身体残疾，下降和认知能力下降（项目1）；学校，确定儿童是否在学术，行为和愿意通过经验兵团提供的社会资本以及我们的衰老社会的社会资本来改善（项目2）；计划行动对大脑结构和执行功能的潜在机制（项目3）；计划对社会和心理机制和结果的影响（项目4）；最后，我们将对该计划进行成本效益分析，并考虑到老年人和儿童。这5个项目和3个支持核心的工作将相互联系和协同作用，并将通过指导委员会和执行委员会在此行政核心（Core A）内部运作。该核心将针对所有项目和核心投射协调和互犯，整体组织和预算管理，监控进度和有效性，产生报告，组织DSMB会议以及协调社区关系。总体而言，该计划项目旨在评估体验团的效用和有效性，作为老龄化社会健康促进的社会模型。