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）： 到2020年，老年人的数量预计将翻一番，65岁及以上的人口比例预计将上升到22%，因此，开发和测试基于人口的方法，为我们的老龄化社会进行大规模有效的健康促进至关重要。这将使我们能够循证决定如何部署资源，以便对老年人的健康产生最佳影响。该行政核心支持一个计划项目的运作和整体协调，该计划项目致力于通过对体验团计划及其在当地和社会的成本效益和成本效益影响进行随机对照试验来实现这一目标。该方案是一个老年志愿者方案，将60岁及以上的人安排在公立小学担任有意义的角色，这些角色旨在对儿童的成果产生重大影响;该方案吸引并留住老年人，每周15小时，因为有机会回馈社会。然而，该方案设计了一个健康促进方案，旨在增加社会、认知和体育活动。该应用程序将在大学-社区-城市合作中，通过随机对照评估对扩大计划的影响进行严格评估：老年志愿者，以确定体验团是否可以预防或减缓身体残疾，福尔斯和认知能力下降（项目1）;学校，以确定孩子们是否在学业上有所提高，由于体验团提供的社会资本以及我们的老龄化社会，（项目2）;程序对大脑结构和执行功能的潜在作用机制（项目3）;项目对社会和心理机制及结果的影响（项目4）;最后，我们将对该计划进行成本效益分析，同时考虑到对老年人和儿童的影响。5个项目和3个支助核心的工作将相互关联和协同增效，并将通过在本行政核心（核心A）内运作的指导委员会和执行委员会相互交叉。该核心将负责项目协调和相互交织、所有项目和核心的整体组织和预算管理、监控进度和有效性、生成报告、组织DSMB会议以及协调社区关系。总的来说，这个计划项目的目的是评估的实用性和有效性的经验团作为一个社会模式，促进健康的老龄化社会。