Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份继续密歇根大学和韦恩州立大学密歇根城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心 (MCUAAR) 的申请。从概念上讲，拟议中心的研究和培训活动建立在健康促进和健康行为的社会和行为科学模型的基础上，强调结构状况（特别是社会经济）、性别和种族/民族在影响健康结果方面的交叉。它以生命历程为导向，假设少数族裔和种族的老年状态和条件始于生命历程的早期阶段，并且适合文化敏感和适当的干预措施。该模型源于我们对老年人生产性角色的研究，重点关注与文化相关且能有效影响积极健康和功能结果的有效老龄化要素。拟议的 MCAAAR 将分为三个核心。行政核心将提供行政支持，促进知识交流，并在拟建中心内以及与其他大学单位和社区组织之间提供整体协调。社区联络核心将与现有的社区研究和服务关系合作，并建立新的社区研究和服务关系，为拟议的试点研究和干预工作提供合作社区受访者来源，并制定新的公共政策外展计划。研究者发展核心将识别、选择和指导对少数族裔老年人健康研究和干预感兴趣的多学科和多文化研究者。尽管没有提出单独的测量核心，但精通测量和方法的研究者将在行政核心内工作，以完善和磨练所有研究者的研究兴趣，特别是进行试点研究的年轻学者。该应用程序建立在这两个州立机构教师和学生的工作和专业知识的基础上，对非裔美国人一生中的健康不平等进行实证调查。我们很幸运地培养了一支知识渊博的研究人员队伍，并为每所大学吸引了大量多种族的核心和附属教职人员，其中许多人是前 MCUAAR 学者，以及对黑人和其他少数群体的老龄化和人类发展研究感兴趣的研究生。 MCAAAR 将继续支持由知名研究人员和经过适当指导的早期研究人员组成的多学科和多种族团队。我们致力于建立和维护研究基础设施，以指导新的少数族裔研究人员，增强未来社会和行为科学老龄化研究人员的多样性，并改进当前和制定新的战略，以招募和留住日益多样化的老年人口中健康相关研究的老年少数族裔参与者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application to continue the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. Conceptually, the research and training activities of the proposed center build upon a social and behavioral science model of health promotion and health behaviors that emphasize the intersection of structural statuses (especially socio- economic), gender, and race/ethnicity in influencing health outcomes. It is life-course oriented and assumes that statuses and conditions in older ages among ethnic and racial minorities begin at earlier periods of the life-course and are amenable to culturally sensitive and appropriate interventions. The model grows out of our research on productive roles among the elderly and focuses attention on elements of effective aging that are culturally relevant and efficacious in influencing positive health and functioning outcomes. The proposed MCUAAAR would be organized into three cores. The Administrative Core will provide administrative support, facilitate intellectual interchange, and provide overall coordination within the proposed Center, and with other university units and community based organizations. The Community Liaison Core will work with existing, and build new, community research and service relationships, provide sources of cooperating community respondents for the proposed pilot research and intervention efforts, and develop a new public policy outreach initiative. The Investigator Development Core will identify, select, and mentor multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural investigators interested in research and interventions on the health of minority elders. Although a separate measurement core is not proposed, investigators skilled in measurement and methodology will work within the Administrative Core to refine and hone the research interests of all the investigators, but especially young scholars conducting the pilot studies. This application builds upon the work and expertise of faculty and students in these two state institutions to empirically investigate African American health inequalities over the life-course. We have been fortunate in developing a knowledgeable group of research personnel and attracting to each university a large number of multi-ethnic core and affiliated faculty, many of them former MCUAAAR Scholars, and graduate students with interests in the study of aging and human development in black and other minority populations. The MCUAAAR will continue to support a multi- disciplinary and multi-ethnic team of established researchers and appropriately mentored early investigators. We are committed to building and maintaining research infra-structures for mentoring new minority researchers, enhancing the diversity of future social and behavioral science aging researchers, and improving current, and developing new, strategies for recruiting and retaining older minority participants in health related research among the growing diverse elderly populations.