Center for Translational Research on Aging and Mobility

老龄化与流动性转化研究中心

• 批准号: 7667567
• 负责人: KARLENE K BALL
• 金额: $ 37.59万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-30 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7667567
• 关键词: Accidents; Age; Aging; Alabama; American; Area; Automobile Driving; Cancer Center Support Grant; Caring; Characteristics; Clinic; Clinical; Cognitive; Collaborations; Community Health; Data; Databases; Dependence; Development; Economics; Educational Intervention; Elderly; Employment; Environment; Evaluation; Failure; Family member; Fostering; Funding; General Population; Gerontology; Goals; Government; Grant; Habits; Health; Health Professional; Hospitals; Impairment; Individual; Information Dissemination; Injury; Insurance; Intention; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Laboratories; Life; Measures; Motor Vehicles; Occupational Therapist; Outcome; Personal Satisfaction; Policy Maker; Procedures; Productivity; Psychologist; Publications; Quality of life; Range; Rate; Recruitment Activity; Rehabilitation therapy; Reporting; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Scientist; Services; Societies; Sum; Support of Research; Technology; Testing; Training; Translating; Translational Research; Translations; Universities; Vehicle crash; Vision; Visual; base; data management; day; design; falls; improved; innovation; interest; prevent; programs; skills; social; tool

This application proposes the renewal of an NIA Edward R. Roybal Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The theme of the proposed Center is "Translational Research on Aging and Mobility." Mobility restrictions become more prevalent with advancing age, and have been attributed to impairments in physical, cognitive, and visual function. In addition to mobility restrictions, adverse outcomes such as falls, crash involvement while driving, and injuries are also associated with the underlying impairments. The significance of this area of research is underscored by the fact that continued mobility fosters independence and the ultimate goal of the Roybal Centers is to benefit the lives of older people by improving quality of life, enhancing productivity, and minimizing the need for care. Furthermore, decreased mobility leads to both social and economic dependence on family members and society at large. The Center continuation application proposes three cores, each designed to enhance the research infrastructure necessary to accomplish the objectives of the Center, and to support and promote translational research in the many affiliated Center research projects. The proposed Center will consist of a management core, which will provide data management and biostatistical services, technical support, access to State accident reports and a crash database, access to a recruitment database, access to assessment tools for use in Center research, access to a driving simulator facility, and a driving assessment clinic. A pilot grant core will be used to foster the development of new ideas and interventions of benefit to the elderly, and which will help researchers pursue additional funding to further develop, test and implement the ideas piloted in the Center. Finally, an information dissemination core will be provided to facilitate collaborations among academic researchers and commercial interests, and to insure that new findings of the Center are communicated to the scientific community, health care professionals, government policy makers, and the public at large. These activities will all be facilitated by our Advisory Board, which will oversee the functioning of the cores as well as the affiliated projects.

本申请建议更新NIA Edward R.亚拉巴马大学罗伊巴尔中心， 伯明翰该中心的主题是“老龄化和流动性的转化研究”。"流动性 随着年龄的增长，限制变得更加普遍，并被归因于 身体认知和视觉功能除了活动受限外，不良后果如福尔斯， 驾驶时发生碰撞，受伤也与潜在的损伤有关。的 这一研究领域的重要性突出表现在这样一个事实上，即持续的流动性促进了独立性 Roybal中心的最终目标是通过提高生活质量， 提高生产力，并最大限度地减少护理需求。此外，流动性下降导致 对家庭成员和整个社会的社会和经济依赖。 中心延续申请提出了三个核心，每个核心都旨在加强研究 实现中心目标所需的基础设施，并支持和促进翻译 研究中心的许多附属研究项目。拟建中心将由管理层组成， 核心，将提供数据管理和生物统计服务、技术支持、国家数据库访问、 事故报告和坠机数据库，进入招聘数据库，进入评估工具， 在中心研究中使用，使用驾驶模拟器设施和驾驶评估诊所。试点补助金 核心将用于促进发展有益于老年人的新思想和干预措施， 这将有助于研究人员寻求额外的资金，以进一步开发，测试和实施试点的想法 中心最最后，将提供一个信息传播核心， 学术研究人员和商业利益，并确保该中心的新发现是 传达给科学界，卫生保健专业人员，政府决策者， 广大公众。这些活动都将由我们的咨询委员会推动，该委员会将监督 核心项目以及附属项目的运作。