NRC: Improving Healthcare for Cognitively Impaired Elders and Their Caregivers

描述（由申请人提供）：西北皇家中心（NRC）的使命是通过基础行为和社会科学研究的翻译，改善有认知障碍的老年人、有认知障碍风险的中年和老年人及其照顾者的健康、福祉、生活质量和生产力。NRC的重点是在老年人居住和接受护理的完整连续环境（包括私人住宅、退休社区、辅助生活住宅、成人家庭住宅和专业护理设施）中，对经过充分研究的评估方法和基于证据的干预措施进行系统和战略转化。NRC将利用独特而成熟的优势：NWRGA，一个跨学科研究人员的合作团队，拥有20多年的美国国立卫生研究院资助的社区研究；华盛顿大学护理学院（SoN），在美国的研究排名第一；美国最大的卫生组织的一部分——健康研究小组健康合作中心；以及ITHS，一个由美国国立卫生研究院资助的CTSA“合作实验室”，由来自华盛顿州、怀俄明州、阿拉斯加州、蒙大拿州和爱达荷州的研究人员组成。NRC的目标——通过其管理和行政核心和试点核心——是：1)开发和维护支持和维持转化研究的基础设施，以实现NRC的使命。2)为发展、实施和评估有前途的社会和行为研究成果的试点研究提供行政、财政、技术和学术支持，以实现NRC在成人居住和接受护理的完整连续环境中的使命（例如，私人住宅、退休社区、辅助生活住宅、成人家庭住宅和熟练护理设施）。3)加强和维持研究人员、从业人员和消费者之间强有力的跨学科和跨机构合作伙伴关系，以确保有前途的研究途径在NRC的生命周期内迅速有效地转化为社区。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Northwest Roybal Center (NRC) is to improve the health, well being, quality of life and productivity of older adults with cognitive impairment, midlife and older adults at risk for cognitive impairment, and their caregivers through the translation of basic behavioral and social sciences research. The NRC focuses on the systematic and strategic translation of well-researched methods of assessment and evidence-based interventions along the full continuum of environments in which older adults reside and receive care (including private homes, retirement communities, assisted living residences, adult family homes and skilled nursing facilities.) The NRC will capitalize on unique yet well-established strengths: the NWRGA, a collaborative team of interdisciplinary researchers with 20+ years of NIH-funded community based research; the UW School of Nursing (SoN), ranked #1 for research in the U.S; the Group Health Cooperative-Center for Health Studies, part of the largest HMO in the U.S.; and the ITHS, an NIH-funded CTSA "collaboratory" of researchers throughout the five-state area of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. The aims of the NRC - through its Management and Administrative Core and Pilot Core - are to: 1) Develop and maintain an infrastructure that supports and sustains translational research to achieve the NRC mission. 2) Provide administrative, financial, technical, and scholariy support to pilot studies that develop, implement, and evaluate promising social and behavioral research findings to achieve the NRC mission along the full continuum of environments in which adults reside and receive care (e.g., private homes, retirement communities, assisted-living residences, adult family homes, and skilled nursing facilities). 3) Enhance and maintain strong interdisciplinary and interagency partnerships among researchers, practitioners, and consumers to insure that promising avenues of research are translated into the community expeditiously and effectively over the course of the NRC's lifecycle. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The NRC will address one of the most important health problems of our time: enhancing the health, wellbeing, and productivity, of older adults with cognitive impairment, midlife or older adults at risk for cognitive impairment, and their caregivers, through the strategic translation of well-researched methods of assessment and evidence-based interventions to broad-based community settings, including the full continuum of care and environments in which older adults reside and receive care.