Pilot Core

核心B，老龄化决策推进中心（CADMA）的试点项目核心，支持 拟议中的罗伊巴尔中心的研究活动。它包括旨在了解和 改进决策，奋进最终产生建议和产品，或 这些方法将有助于为老龄化做出明智、有效的决策。核心B具有以下特定 目标：1）支持小规模试点（种子）和补充项目，并协助其进一步发展 2）发展和扩大讲习班和研讨会， 高级培训，促进合作，并可用于招募调查员和学员; 3）作为一个 对决策研究中的重要问题进行创新性多学科研究的协调中心 4）传播研究成果，协助发展 基于研究的建议和产品。 试点项目是核心项目B的主要目标，也是CADMA计划活动的核心。这些 这些项目是对斯坦福大学老龄化研究的高度杠杆投资，它们满足了以下额外目标： 更广泛的研究领域。他们促进了初级调查员的职业发展， 他们对决策研究感兴趣，鼓励跨学科合作，旨在 引导实际的干预措施来改善美国老年人的生活。试点项目的一个主要特点是 该计划是一个初级研究员与至少一名高级教师导师的匹配，这种安排 促进实质性研究和教师发展。 我们建议每年资助三个新的试验/种子项目。大多数项目将导致完成 初始工作产品，然后在授予日期后一年内申请外部资金; a 很少有人需要两年的资金。本建议书介绍了四个试点项目的例子：1）研究 评估接受全面遗传学检查结果的即时和延迟认知后果， 筛选; 2）调查使用沉浸式虚拟现实来增加退休储蓄的研究; 3） 一项研究，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）一项关于基于网络的决策辅助如何建议降低卡路里的研究 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.