Emerging Issues in Minority Aging Research

少数民族老龄化研究中的新问题

• 批准号: 9038203
• 负责人: Steven Paul Wallace
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-30 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9038203
• 关键词: Aging; Americas; Area; Attention; Awareness; Caring; Cognitive; Color; Committee Members; Communities; Distance Learning; Education; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Elderly; Evaluation; Exercise; Faculty; Funding; Goals; Health; Institution; Intervention; Journals; Knowledge; Lead; Learning Module; Measures; Medical; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Minority Groups; Motivation; National Institute on Aging; Not Hispanic or Latino; Older Population; Participant; Peer Review; Personal Satisfaction; Policies; Policy Analysis; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Process; Program Evaluation; Publications; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Resources; Risk; Risk Factors; Science; Series; Site; Skills Development; Societies; Stream; Surveys; Time; Training; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Woman; Work; age related; biodemography; design; ethnic minority population; experience; faculty research; field study; follow-up; health disparity; improved; innovation; interest; journal article; meetings; member; next generation; outreach; population health; programs; racial minority; research and development; satisfaction; skill acquisition; skills; social stigma; stress resilience; success; symposium; theories; tool; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Emerging Issues in Minority Aging Research: This project will create five different one-day conferences on current NIA initiatives that are relevant to minority aging research. The goal of the proposed conference series is to increase the quality, quantity, and relevance to communities of color of NIA-fundable research by providing both junior and senior researchers with new knowledge and greater interest in these emerging issues as they apply to minority elderly. This is significant because the number and proportion of the U.S. older population from racial and ethnic minority communities is growing rapidly: minorities will increase from 20% to over 40% of the older population between 2010 and 2050. Protecting and improving the health of these elderly requires a highly skilled research workforce with interests and capabilities in this area to produce new and useful knowledge. Yet the number and success of minority researchers funded by NIH is insufficient. The NIA's Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) program works to mentor and train junior faculty who conduct research on minority aging to strengthen the next generation of NIA-funded ethnic and racial minority researchers. The conferences will focus on: Cognitive health disparities research and national policy, Use of well-being measures in minority aging research and policy analyses, Stigma in minority aging research, Mutability and reversibility of risk factors across diverse populations, and Concepts and measures of stress and resilience for minority aging research. Each will feature leading scholars on the topic, top scholars on minority aging, and representatives from multiple NIA-funded centers and networks. The programs will disseminate the state of the art on the topic, inform researchers on how existing research needs to be modified or expanded to be more valid and relevant for minority elders, and provide tools that can be used by researchers to further develop the fields in research with minority elders. The conferences will be held as preconferences to the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) annual scientific meetings. There will be at least 50 participants at each conference and the majority will be minorities and/or women. The planning committee will be compromised of the confirmed keynote speakers who are leaders in the field, researchers from RCMAR sites with expertise in the topic, and members of other NIA-funded networks. The executive committee will be the RCMAR directors group. The project is innovative in the topics covered, the research networks involved, and the synergy with GSA. Program evaluation includes a process evaluation, a retrospective pre/post knowledge and confidence survey, and four-month follow-up survey on conference impacts. The lead investigators are national leaders in minority aging and gerontological education who have successfully led 11 previous GSA preconferences that reached over 600 researchers. This proposal is a renewal of the previous successful series with new topics but similar objectives of improving the knowledge and interest in emerging issues supported by NIA among RCMAR Scholars and faculty as well as among others with research agendas in minority aging and related issues; and raising awareness of how minority aging issues intersect these priority topics to promote research in the cutting edge issues.

描述（由申请人提供）：少数民族老龄化研究中出现的问题：该项目将创建五个不同的为期一天的会议，目前的NIA倡议是相关的 少数民族老龄化研究拟议的系列会议的目标是通过为初级和高级研究人员提供适用于少数族裔老年人的新知识和对这些新兴问题的更大兴趣，提高NIA资助研究的质量、数量以及与有色人种社区的相关性。这一点很重要，因为美国少数民族社区老年人口的数量和比例正在迅速增长：2010年至2050年间，少数民族将从20%增加到40%以上。保护和改善这些老年人的健康需要一支高技能的研究队伍，他们对这一领域感兴趣，有能力产生新的有用知识。然而，由NIH资助的少数民族研究人员的数量和成功是不够的。NIA的少数民族老龄化研究资源中心（RCMAR）计划致力于指导和培训进行少数民族老龄化研究的初级教师，以加强NIA资助的下一代少数民族和种族研究人员。会议将侧重于：认知健康差异研究和国家政策，在少数民族老龄化研究和政策分析中使用幸福措施，少数民族老龄化研究中的耻辱，不同人群中风险因素的可变性和可逆性，以及少数民族老龄化研究的压力和弹性的概念和措施。每一个都将以该主题的主要学者，少数民族老龄化的顶级学者以及来自多个NIA资助的中心和网络的代表为特色。这些方案将传播关于这一主题的最新技术，告知研究人员如何修改或扩大现有的研究，使其对少数民族老年人更有效和更相关，并提供研究人员可以用来进一步发展少数民族老年人研究领域的工具。这些会议将作为美国老年学会（GSA）年度科学会议的会前会议举行。每次会议将至少有50名与会者，大多数将是少数民族和/或妇女。规划委员会将由该领域的领导者、来自RCMAR网站的具有该主题专业知识的研究人员以及其他NIA资助网络的成员组成。执行委员会将是RCMAR董事小组。该项目在所涵盖的主题，所涉及的研究网络以及与GSA的协同作用方面具有创新性。计划评估包括过程评估、回顾性的前/后知识和信心调查以及为期四个月的会议影响跟踪调查。主要研究人员是少数民族老龄化和老年学教育的国家领导人，他们成功地领导了11次GSA会前会议，吸引了600多名研究人员。该提案是以前成功系列的更新，具有新的主题，但类似的目标是提高RCMAR学者和教师以及其他少数民族老龄化和相关问题研究议程中NIA支持的新兴问题的知识和兴趣;并提高对少数民族老龄化问题如何交叉这些优先主题的认识，以促进前沿问题的研究。