Accelerating translation of knowledge to community practices for older adults.

描述（由申请人提供）：本R13申请申请为两个研讨会提供部分支持，这两个研讨会将是由美国老年学会（GSA）和约翰·a·哈特福德老年社会工作倡议（HGSWI）提供的系列研讨会中的第一个。该系列的每个研讨会将研究一个代表社区实践领域的主题，其中组织有可能广泛实施基于证据的干预措施。因此，在所有主题中，研讨会的目标是：1)评估和澄清翻译研究的状态，并确定“翻译”中的下一个逻辑步骤，无论是治疗开发、治疗适应、实施还是传播研究；2)从社区合作伙伴的角度确定翻译工作的机遇和挑战；3)探索跨学科和机构合作伙伴关系，推动这项工作向前发展。专家在传播和实施科学，老年学家目前参与转化研究的主题，和代表的社区为基础的观点将出席。前两个研讨会的主题是痴呆症患者和老年残疾者的家庭护理，将作为2013年和2014年GSA年会的会前研讨会提供。接下来的话题可能包括虐待老人、易受伤害的老年员工、

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This R13 application requests partial support for two workshops that will be the first of a series offered by The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the John A. Hartford Geriatric Social Work Initiative (HGSWI). Each workshop in the series will examine a topic representing an arena of community-based practice where organizations have the potential to widely implement evidence- based interventions. Knowledge on each topic will be at a different point of development for improving care in real-world settings Thus, across all topics, the workshop objectives are to: 1) assess and clarify the state of translational research and identify the next logical steps "in translation," whether that be treatment development, treatment adaptation, implementation or dissemination research; 2) identify opportunities and challenges for translational work from the perspective of community partners; and 3) explore interdisciplinary and agency partnerships to move this work forward. Experts in dissemination and implementation science, gerontologists currently involved in translational studies on the topic, and representatives of the community- based perspective will present. The topics of the first two workshops, to be offered as preconference workshops at the GSA annual conferences in 2013 and 2014, are family caregiving to persons with dementia and aging with disability. Subsequent topics will likely include elder abuse, vulnerable older workers, end-of-life care, and GLBT older adults, to be finalized by the PIs and advisors. Participants will be solicited from GSA members with a particular focus on members of the Hartford Geriatric Social Work Initiative and the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research. Funds are budgeted to support eight junior investigators per workshop, who will also participate in a poster event in conjunction with an opening reception. Outcomes for each workshop include a symposium in the general GSA program and a summary of the workshop's proceedings and findings to be distributed widely. We also aim to produce a publication deriving from the first two workshops. These workshops will increase participants' capacity to successfully respond to the growing number of calls for translational work, like NIA's PA 11-123 and PAS 11-281 and NIH's PAR 10-038. We believe that this project is unique in several ways: selecting a series of topics highly relevant to community-based practice; learning from national experts on implementation and dissemination science; honing in on the current state of translational work; and ensuring the perspective of community-based organizations. Although there have been many conferences on these aging topics, we do not believe that there have been other conferences that have approached the problem of moving knowledge into practice in this fashion.