Comparative effectiveness in older cancer patients: age versus health status

描述（由申请人提供）：“三个比较有效的会议，重点是老龄化和癌症，90分钟，将被纳入2010年11月19日至23日在新奥尔良举行的美国老年学会2010年年度科学会议。“一个共同的主席将主持所有3次会议，以确保会议有相同的背景和主题。“每场会议将有3名教师谁将专注于具体的会谈，除了讨论谁将主持小组讨论，并从事与会者互动和参与。“与会者将在会议之前收集基线信息，这些信息将用作评估过程的一部分。“每一次会议都将围绕案例情景进行。将捕捉观众对场景的基线反应。随着案例情节的发展和教师目前的信息和教育材料，观众将被鼓励重温他们以前的反应。这一进程将有助于对这些会议进行评价。研究战略中附有一个不断发展的案例作为例子。“每一次会议都将被记录下来，用于制作网络研讨会，以接触会议以外的观众。 公共卫生相关性：美国老年学协会（GSA）成立于1945年，是致力于老年学研究和老龄化教育的最古老和最大的国际跨学科科学组织。GSA的一个关键目标是鼓励科学家，决策者和从业者之间传播衰老研究成果。GSA成员和与会者代表了来自全球范围内生物科学，护理，医学，社会工作，经济学，政策，心理学和其他社会科学领域的广泛专业人士，来自40多个国家的个人参加会议。GSA有超过35个正式和非正式的兴趣小组，围绕跨学科的主题或问题形成。兴趣小组在GSA年度科学会议上会面，并为研究项目提供网络，合作以及增加成员和非成员参与会议计划的机会。癌症和衰老研究非正式兴趣小组由密歇根州立大学的比尔·吉文博士和基思M。贝利齐博士，康涅狄格大学，人类发展和家庭研究。GSA的起源始于20世纪30年代末，一群医生和科学家在伍兹霍尔举行了一系列会议，最终形成了“老龄研究俱乐部”。“从一开始，社会的基调是多学科的，基础科研研究非常突出。甚至在1954年，在她的总统演讲中，奥利·兰德尔谈到“越来越有必要将不同学科的人聚集在一起，以共同受益，丰富每一个学科。“在20世纪60年代，GSA在1974年国家老龄化研究所的成立中发挥了重要作用;这一开创性的事件最终确保了老龄化研究的资金流。GSA第63届年度科学会议将于2010年11月19日至23日在路易斯安那州新奥尔良举行，主题为“整个老龄化连续体的护理转变”。“会议将允许与会者探索老年人在其生命历程中经历的重大转变的情况。这些包括健康和医疗转型，社会转型，财务转型，心理转型等等。本次会议汇集了3,500多名老龄化领域最聪明的头脑，他们参加了400多个多学科的科学会议，包括研讨会，论文和海报展示，展示了最新的老龄化研究，以改善老年人的生活。会议上讨论的老龄化研究范围的例子包括诸如居民与辅助生活环境中照顾者关系的研究，维生素D对肌肉成分的影响，干细胞疗法的开发以对抗阿尔茨海默病，以及该提案的重点，老年癌症患者的比较有效性研究等主题。2010年会议的地点将是希尔顿，新奥尔良滨江，新奥尔良，洛杉矶。整个GSA会议将从11月19日持续到23日。所有与会者都有资格参加这三场会议的任何部分，与会者以外的与会者也有资格参加这些会议的网络研讨会专题介绍。本提案中描述的会议和网络研讨会由国际老年肿瘤学会（SIOG）和美国老年病学会（AGS）共同赞助。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): "Three comparative effectiveness sessions focused on aging and cancer, 90 minutes each, will be incorporated into the 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America that will take place in New Orleans from Nov 19-23, 2010." A common chair will preside over all 3 session to ensure the sessions have the same context and themes. "Each session will have 3 faculty who will focus on specific talks in addition to a discussant who will moderate the panel discussion and engage the attendees to interact and participate." Attendees will have baseline information collected prior to the session that will be used as part of the evaluation process. "Each session will be based around case scenarios. Baseline audience response to the scenarios will be captured. As the case scenarios evolve and the faculty present information and educational material, the audience will be encouraged to revisit their prior responses. This process will allow for the evaluation of these sessions. An evolving case has been attached in the Research Strategy as an example. "Each session will be recorded for the production of webinars to reach audiences beyond the conference. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) was founded in 1945 and is the oldest and largest international interdisciplinary scientific organization devoted to the advancement of gerontological research and education in aging. A key goal of the GSA is to encourage the dissemination of aging research findings among scientists, decision makers, and practitioners. GSA members and meeting attendees represent a broad spectrum of professionals from the fields of biological sciences, nursing, medicine, social work, economics, policy, psychology, and other social sciences on a global scale, with individuals coming to the meeting from more than 40 countries. GSA has over 35 formal and informal interest groups that are formed around a topic or issue that cuts across disciplines. Interest groups meet at the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting and provide opportunities for networking, collaboration on research projects, and increased involvement for members and non-members in the conference program. The Research on Cancer and Aging informal interest group is led by Bill Given, PhD, Michigan State University, and Keith M. Bellizzi, PhD, University of Connecticut, Human Development and Family Studies. The origins of the GSA began in the late 1930's with a group of physicians and scientists undertaking a series of meetings at Woods Hole eventually forming the "Club for Research on Ageing." From the beginning the tone of the society was multidisciplinary and basic scientific research was highly prominent. Even in 1954, in her Presidential address, Ollie Randall talked about "the growing necessity for people of different disciplines to be brought together for the mutual benefit of the enrichment of each." During the 1960's the GSA was influential in the formation of the National Institute on Aging in 1974; a seminal event that eventually ensured a funding stream for research in aging. GSA's 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA, November 19-23, 2010, with the theme of "Transitions of Care Across the Aging Continuum." The conference will allow attendees to explore the circumstances that surround significant transitions that older adults experience over their life course. These include health and health care transitions, social transitions, financial transitions, psychological transitions, and more. This meeting brings together more than 3,500 of the brightest minds in the field of aging who participate in over 400 multidisciplinary scientific sessions including symposia, paper, and poster presentations featuring the newest aging research to improve the lives of older adults. Examples of the range of aging research addressed at the meeting include topics such as studies of residents' relationships with caregivers in assisted living settings, the effects of vitamin D on muscle composition, development of stem cell therapies to combat Alzheimer's disease, and, the focus of this proposal, comparative effectiveness research in older cancer patients. The site of the 2010 conference will be the Hilton, New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, LA. The entire GSA meeting will run from November 19th to the 23rd. All participants will be eligible to attend any part of the three sessions and participants beyond those attending the meeting will be eligible to attend the webinar presentations developed from these sessions. The sessions and webinars described in this proposal are co-sponsored by the International Society of Geriatric-Oncology (SIOG) and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS).