Oregon Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging

描述(由申请人提供)：俄勒冈州罗伊巴尔老龄化与技术中心(ORCATECH)致力于：1)支持独特的基础设施，促进独立使用最先进的技术和工程开发和转化关于老龄化的基本社会、行为和生物学知识的过程；2)推进以使用为灵感的ORCATECH生活实验室模式，用于基于技术的健康监测和支持独立老龄化，利用普适计算的进步的个人住宅和社区，并包括关注服务不足人群的新选民；3)通过创新的公私伙伴关系、跨学科合作和在实地招聘新的人才，加快开发、转化和传播在现场实验室获得的知识的进程。该中心将通过一系列机制促进和激励翻译创新，包括由学术、社区和行业领袖组成的多学科、多机构理事会，建立新的国内和国际研究合作，建立一个由退休行业工程师和健康提供者组成的网络，以参与设计开发(试点6-2，伦理项目)，以及为学术实习生提供实习计划，让他们常驻行业研究小组。该中心提出了一个生活实验室模式，该模式由包括农村居民、居住在第8区的居民、低收入住房(试点7-2)和一个独特的老年社区组成的网络组成，旨在利用尖端技术对活动进行非显眼的监测(试点6-1；7-1)。试点赠款计划提供了进一步的机制，以产生所需的新知识，招募新的研究人员进入该领域，并使未来能够进行更明确的研究。最初的试点将涉及广泛的关键主题，包括确定退休工程师队列，从技术成熟的老年人的独特角度评估与健康相关的技术使用态度，使用居家技术来检测老年人住所改变期间社交互动和参与的动态变化，以及理解和使服务不足的人口使用基于家庭的技术进行独立生活。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Oregon Roybal Center for Aging and Technology (ORCATECH) is dedicated to: 1) Supporting a unique infrastructure that facilitates the process of developing and translating basic social, behavioral and biological knowledge about aging independently using state of the art technology and engineering; 2) Advancing the use-inspired ORCATECH Living Laboratory model for technology-based health monitoring and support of independent aging, utilizing individual residences and communities with advances in ubiquitous computing and including new constituencies focusing on underserved populations; 3) Accelerating the process of development, translation and dissemination of knowledge gained in the living laboratory through innovative public-private partnerships, cross-disciplinary collaborations and recruitment of new talent into the field. The Center will foster and stimulate translational innovation though a number of mechanisms including its multidisciplinary, multi-institutional Council composed of academic, community and industry leaders, building new national and international research collaborations, establishing a network of retired industry based engineers and health providers for participatory design development (pilot 6-2, ETHICS project) and an internship program for academic trainees to be resident in industry research groups. The Center advances a Living Laboratory model consisting of a network of residences including rural residents, residents living in Section 8, low-income housing (pilot 7-2), and a unique senior community prospectively designed for unobtrusive monitoring of activity with leading-edge technology (pilot 6-1; 7-1). A pilot grant program provides a further mechanism for generating needed new knowledge, recruiting new investigators into the field and enabling future, more definitive studies to be conducted. Initial pilots will address a breadth of key topics including identifying a retired engineer's cohort to assess health-related technology use attitudes from the unique perspective of technically sophisticated seniors, using in-home technologies to detect dynamic changes in social interactions and engagement during changes of senior's residences and understanding and enabling an underserved population's use of home-based technology for independent living.