EDUCATION AND INFORMATION CORE

阿尔茨海默氏病（AD）的流行和破坏性的公共卫生影响的迅速发展，要求在AD相关的研究和教育的同时增加。教育和信息核心的主要目标是促进招募和保留受试者进入研究方案和临床试验，重点是少数民族和农村人口;并开发和维护创新计划，为专业人员提供与AD和其他痴呆症相关的临床和研究技能。该提案概述了一套详细的综合推广和教育活动，旨在满足我们的总体目标，同时应对匹兹堡ADRC大学周围当地社区的教育和推广需求。将系统地评价该核心的活动，以衡量其对每项活动具体的直接成果的影响，以及对核心总体目标的贡献。该核心的主要特征包括致力于在我们感兴趣的社区内进行持续的需求评估，以及质量改进方法， 提高我们评估过程的严格性。

The burgeoning prevalence and devastating public health implications of Alzheimer's disease (AD) demand a concomitant increase in AD-related research and education. The primary objectives of the Education and Information Core are to facilitate the recruitment and retention of subjects into research protocols and clinical trials, emphasizing ethnic minority and rural populations; and to develop and maintain innovative programs that provide professional staff with clinical and research skills related to AD and other dementias. This proposal outlines a detailed set of integrated outreach and educational activities designed to meet our overarching objectives while responding to the education and outreach needs of the local communities surrounding the University of Pittsburgh ADRC. The activities of this Core will be systematically evaluated to measure their effects on immediate outcomes specific to each activity, as well as their contribution to the Core's overarching objectives. Key features of this Core include a commitment to ongoing needs assessment within our community of interest, and a quality improvement approach to continually increasing the rigor of our evaluation processes.