Conference Series in Geriatrics: From Bedside to Bench

描述（由申请人提供）：这是代表美国老年医学会和国家老龄问题研究所老年医学和临床老年学分支撰写的U13床边到长凳会议补助金的竞争性更新。在这个修订后的应用程序中，我们提出了前6次会议影响的证据。我们的目标仍然是提高对老年医学问题的研究关注，这些问题具有紧迫的临床关注，并有可能大大改善老年人的临床护理或预防。我们的标题强调了 在老年医学研究中，临床问题必须有助于构建和 引导基本查询。这次更新延续了第一个奖项的许多特点：使用老年医学界和NIA的投入开发的主题，多学科参与，来自老龄化研究界内外的初级研究人员和领导者的参与，充足的时间进行讨论，通过AGS年会研讨会进行传播，并在JAGS或其他高影响力的专业期刊上发表。监督委员会的任务是进行全面监督，协调不同会议，并遵守出版时间轴和少数群体参与目标。根据AGS和NIA的输入，我们现在希望解决谵妄，睡眠问题和尿路感染。我们的重点是及时给予新兴的机会，通过旨在确定共同的风险因素和定义潜在机制的转化研究，改变我们对这些复杂的多因素老年综合征的方法。这些目标将以以下方式解决：目标1：举行3个多学科会议，确定谵妄（2013年6月），睡眠（2014年6月）和失眠（2015年6月）的知识差距和优先未来研究方向。目标2：促进对话的方式，这将有助于促进更多的关注和高质量的研究，这些研究不足的老年综合征。目标3：促进多样化和富有成效的研究队伍的发展，解决这些问题。这一系列会议讨论的三种常见疾病（谵妄、睡眠困难和尿失禁）对老年人的生活质量和保持独立的能力有很大影响。该系列会议的目标是刺激新的研究方向，这将允许开发新的和更有效的治疗方法，使个人在老年时保持健康和独立。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competing renewal for a U13 Bedside to Bench conference grant written on behalf of the American Geriatrics Society and the Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology Branch of the National Institute on Aging. In this revised application, we present evidence of impact of the previous 6 conferences. Our goal remains to heighten research attention on geriatrics issues that are of pressing clinical concern and have the potential to greatly improve clinical care or prevention for older adults. Our title emphasizes the bidirectional nature of translation in geriatric research where clinical issues must help frame and guide basic inquiry. This renewal continues many features of the first award: topics developed using input from the geriatrics community and NIA, multidisciplinary participation, involvement by junior investigators and leaders from within and outside the aging research community, ample time for discussion, dissemination through AGS Annual Meeting Symposia and publication in JAGS or other high impact professional journals. An Oversight Board is tasked with general oversight, coordination across different conferences, plus adherence to a publication timeline and minority participation goals. On input from AGS and NIA, we now wish to address Delirium, Sleep Problems and Urinary Incontinence. Our focus is timely given emerging opportunities to transform our approach to these complex multifactorial geriatric syndromes through translational research designed to identify shared risk factors and define underlying mechanisms. These goals will be addressed in the following fashion: Aim 1: Hold 3 multidisciplinary conferences which will define knowledge gaps and priority future research directions for Delirium (June 2013), Sleep (June 2014) and Incontinence (June 2015). Aim 2: Foster dialogue in a manner which will help promote increased attention and high quality research into these understudied geriatric syndromes. Aim 3: Foster growth of a diverse and productive research workforce addressing these issues The three common conditions being addressed by this conference series (delirium, sleep difficulties and urinary incontinence) have a great impact on older adults' quality of life and ability to remain independent. The goal of this conference series is to stimulate new research directions which will permit the development of novel and more effective treatments, allowing individuals to remain healthy and independent in old age.