Pilot Core

核心B，促进老龄决策中心(CADMA)的试点项目核心，支持 拟议的罗伊巴尔中心的研究活动。它由旨在理解和 改进决策，努力最终产生建议和产品或 有助于为老龄化问题做出明智、有效决策的方法。核心B具有以下具体特性 目标：1)支持小规模试点(SEED)和补充项目，并协助其进一步 发展为全面的研究项目；2)发展和扩大讲习班和研讨会，以 高级培训，促进合作，并可用于招募调查人员和受训人员；3)作为 决策研究中重要问题创新多学科研究的着力点 在老龄化人口中传播研究成果并协助制定 在研究的基础上提出建议和产品。 试点项目是核心B的主要目标，也是非洲农业发展中心计划开展的活动的核心。这些 项目是对斯坦福大学老龄化研究的高杠杆投资，它们满足以下额外目标 更广泛的研究界。他们促进初级调查人员的职业生涯，他们刺激 对决策研究的兴趣，它们鼓励跨学科合作，它们旨在 导致实际干预，以改善老年美国人的生活。试点项目的一个主要特点 该计划是一名初级调查员与至少一名高级教员导师的匹配，这一安排 促进实质性研究和教师发展。 我们建议每年支持三个新的试点/种子项目。大多数项目将导致完成 最初的工作成果，然后在其授予之日起一年内申请外部资金；a 很少有银行需要两年的资金。该提案描述了四个示范试点项目：1)一项研究 评估接受综合遗传检测结果的即时和延迟认知后果 筛选；2)调查沉浸式虚拟现实增加退休储蓄的研究；3)A) 这项研究将制定方法，向医疗保险受益人提供有关财务影响的信息 选择替代计划；以及4)关于基于网络的决策辅助如何建议较低卡路里的研究 在老年人的体重管理计划中，可以使用类别内的食物替代品。

Core B, the Pilot Project Core ofthe Center on Advancing Decision Making in Aging (CADMA), supports the research activities of the proposed Roybal Center. It consists of projects that aim to understand and improve decision making, in an endeavor that will ultimately result in recommendations and products or approaches that will facilitate Informed, effective decision making for aging. Core B has the following specific aims: 1) To support small-scale pilot (seed) and supplement projects and to assist in their further development as full-scale research projects; 2) to develop and augment workshops and seminars that advance training, foster collaboration, and can be used to recruit investigators and trainees; 3) To serve as a focal point for innovative multidisciplinary research on important questions in decision making research among aging populations; and 4) to disseminate research results and assist In the development of recommendations and products based on the research. The pilot projects are the primary object of Core B and central to CADMA's planned activities. These projects are highly leveraged investments into aging research at Stanford, and they meet additional goals of the research community more generally. They promote the careers of junior investigators, they stimulate interest in decision making research, they encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, and they are designed to lead to practical interventions to improve the lives of elderiy Americans. A central feature of the pilot project program is the matching of a junior Investigator with at least one senior faculty mentor, an arrangement that advances both substantive research and faculty development. We propose to support three new pilot/seed projects each year. Most projects will lead to the completion of initial work products followed by applications for external funding within one year of their award dates; a few will require two years of funding. Four example pilot projects are described in this proposal: 1) A study to evaluate immediate and delayed cognitive consequences of receiving results of comprehensive genetic screening; 2) A study investigating the use of immersive virtual reality to increase retirement saving; 3)A study that will develop methods to provide information to Medicare beneficiaries on the financial implications of choosing alternative plans; and 4) A study of how a web-based decision aid that suggests lower calorie within-category food alternatives can be used within a weight management program for older adults.