NRC: Improving Healthcare for Cognitively Impaired Elders and Their Caregivers

描述（由申请人提供）：西北Roybal中心（NRC）的使命是通过翻译基本的行为和社会科学研究，改善健康，福祉，生活质量和认知障碍的老年人，中年和老年人的生产力。NRC的重点是系统和战略翻译的评估和循证干预措施的充分研究的方法，沿着的环境中，老年人居住和接受护理（包括私人住宅，退休社区，辅助生活住宅，成人家庭住宅和熟练的护理设施。NRC利用独特而完善的优势：NWRGA，一个跨学科研究人员的合作团队，拥有20多年的NIH资助的社区研究; UW护理学院（SoN），在美国排名第一;美国国家卫生研究院资助的CTSA“合作实验室”，研究人员遍布华盛顿、怀俄明州、阿拉斯加、蒙大拿和爱达荷州五个州，和健康研究团体健康合作中心，美国最大的HMO的一部分。NRC的目标是：（1）发展和维护支持和维持转化研究的基础设施;（2）提供行政、财务、技术、为针对当前《行动纲领》确定的五个优先领域中的四个领域的试点研究提供学术支持：“行为改变的机制”，“利用生物行为风险机制的可塑性的新干预措施”，“新...影响老年人的计划”，以及“家庭、工作场所的新颖计划或实践”。“和（3）加强和保持研究人员，从业者和消费者之间强大的跨学科和机构间的伙伴关系，以确保有前途的研究途径在NRC的生命周期中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 capitalizes on unique yet well-established strengths: the NWRGA, a collaborative team of interdisciplinary researchers with 20+ years of NlH-funded community based research; the UW School of Nursing (SoN), ranked #1 for research in the U.S; the ITHS, an NlH funded CTSA "collaboratory" of researchers throughout the five-state area of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho, and the Group Health Cooperative-Center for Health Studies, part of the largest HMO in the U.S. The aims of the NRC are to: (1) Develop and maintain an infrastructure that supports and sustains translational research; (2) Provide administrative, financial, technical, and scholarly support to pilot studies that address four of the five priority areas identified in the current FOA: "mechanisms of behavior change", "novel interventions exploiting the malleability of biobehavioral risk mechanisms", "novel...programs affecting older populations", and "novel programs or practices at homes, workplaces." and (3) Enhance and maintain strong interdisciplinary and interagency partnerships among researchers, practitioners, and consumers to ensure that promising avenues of research are translated into the community expeditiously and effectively over the course of the NRC's lifecycle.