NRC: Improving Healthcare for Cognitively Impaired Elders and Their Caregivers

描述（由申请人提供）：西北皇家中心（NRC）的使命是通过基础行为和社会科学研究的翻译，改善有认知障碍的老年人、有认知障碍风险的中年和老年人及其护理人员的健康、福祉、生活质量和工作效率。NRC的重点是在老年人居住和接受护理的完整连续环境（包括私人住宅、退休社区、辅助生活住宅、成人家庭住宅和专业护理设施）中，对经过充分研究的评估方法和基于证据的干预措施进行系统和战略转化。NRC利用其独特而成熟的优势：NWRGA，一个由跨学科研究人员组成的合作团队，拥有20多年的nlh资助的社区研究；华盛顿大学护理学院（SoN），在美国的研究排名第一；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；(1)发展和维护支持和维持转化研究的基础设施；(2)为试点研究提供行政、财政、技术和学术支持，以解决当前FOA确定的五个优先领域中的四个：“行为改变机制”、“利用生物行为风险机制可塑性的新型干预措施”、“新型……(3)加强和维持研究人员、从业人员和消费者之间强有力的跨学科和跨机构合作关系，以确保有前途的研究途径在NRC的生命周期内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.