UCLA-Drew/City of Los Angeles Area Agency on Aging Center for Community Research

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的10年里，我们的加州大学洛杉矶分校-德鲁科学家与洛杉矶市老龄部门的领导合作，开展以社区为基础的项目，旨在改善低收入老年人的健康和生活质量。随着我们的互补专业知识和资源的赞赏，我们的学术社区伙伴关系是基于深刻的相互尊重和实施和测试实用的循证干预措施，使老年人保持活跃和健康的共同愿景。我们不仅彼此之间建立了牢固的关系，而且还与庞大的社区合作伙伴网络建立了牢固的关系，并以双向方式合作部署和评估NIH，老龄化管理局（AoA）和私人资助的旨在改善低收入老年人生活的计划。我们寻求支持加州大学洛杉矶分校-德鲁/洛杉矶市老龄化部门的低收入老年人社区研究中心。支持这个拟议的中心将把我们现有的合作转化为一个永久性的基础设施，以维持一个现实世界中的种族多元化的城市“社区授权测试”部署和测试行为研究中的低收入老年人在整个最大的和最种族多元化的城市在美国。在我们的“试验台”中被证明有效的程序可以在系统范围内实施到洛杉矶市部门的编程中。的老化。这个拟议的中心将作为创新的温床，学术健康中心/社区组织合作伙伴关系的模式，以及新方案的“试验场”，国家老龄问题管理局可以在全国范围内传播，以满足其传播循证模型的使命，以改善老年人的健康和功能。在老龄化研究国家领导人外部咨询委员会以及加州大学洛杉矶分校和德鲁医学院发展办公室的支持下，ARRA对加州大学洛杉矶分校/洛杉矶市中心的支持将立即创造新的就业机会，并被利用来获得新的资源，以确保中心的长期可持续性。建立一个坚实的基础设施，以拟议的中心的形式将我们团结起来，这将最大限度地提高我们的效率，并加快我们实现共同目标的步伐，即部署旨在改善低收入老年人生活的科学调查。我们的3年具体目标是：1）将我们现有的合作转化为一个永久的基础设施，将维持一个现实世界的种族多元化的城市“社区授权试验台”，将研究成果转化为实际的社区干预措施;（二）利用这一基础设施作为一个平台，部署和测试创新的研究项目，目标是创造有意义的持续改善生活质量的低收入老年人; 3）促进洛杉矶市政府部门的采用、实施和维护。4）确保资源，以确保拟议中心的长期可持续性。 公共卫生相关性：到2030年，20%的美国人将年满65岁或更大;显然，对我们不断变化的社会来说，我们不放弃老年人，而是确定切实可行的干预措施，帮助老年人满足《美国老年人法案》的使命，即能够保持他们的健康和独立性，这一点非常重要。支持加州大学洛杉矶分校-德鲁/洛杉矶市老龄化部门低收入老年人社区研究中心将通过创建一个永久性的基础设施来改变社区研究的方式，该基础设施将维护一个现实世界中种族多样化的城市“社区授权试验台”，不仅在美国最大和种族最多样化的城市中部署和测试低收入老年人的行为研究，而是将研究成果转化为切实可行的社区干预措施，目标是为低收入老年人的生活质量创造持续、有意义的改善。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For the past 10 years, our UCLA-Drew scientists have worked in partnership with the leadership at the City of Los Angeles Department of Aging on community-based projects aimed at improving the health and quality of life of lower income older adults. With appreciation of our complementary expertise and resources, our academic-community partnership is based in deep mutual respect and a shared vision for implementing and testing practical evidence-based interventions to empower older adults to stay active and healthy. Together we have built strong relationships not only with each other but also with a vast network of community partners, and have collaborated in a bi-directional manner to deploy and evaluate NIH, Administration on Aging (AoA) and privately-funded programs aimed at improving the lives of lower income older adults. We seek support for a UCLA-Drew/City of Los Angeles Department of Aging Center for Community Research for Lower Income Older Adults. Support for this proposed Center would transform our existing collaborations into a permanent infrastructure to maintain a real-world ethnically diverse urban "community empowered tested" for deploying and testing behavioral research among lower income seniors across the largest and most ethnically diverse city in the United States. Programs that are shown to be effective in our "test bed" can be implemented systems-wide into the programming of the City of Los Angeles Dept. of Aging. This proposed Center would serve as a breeding ground for innovation, a model for academic health center/community organization partnership, and a "testing ground" for new programs that the national Administration on Aging could disseminate nationally to meet their mission of disseminating evidence-based models to improve the health and functioning of older adults. With support from an external advisory board of national leaders in aging research and the UCLA and Drew School of Medicine Development Offices, ARRA support for the UCLA/City of LA Center would immediately create new jobs and be leveraged to obtain new resources to ensure the long- term sustainability of the Center. Creation of a solid infrastructure that unites us in the form of the proposed Center would maximize our efficiency and accelerate the pace at which we achieve our shared objective of deploying scientific investigations aimed at improving the lives of lower income older adults. Our 3-year Specific Aims are: 1) to transform our existing collaborations into a permanent infrastructure that will maintain a real-world ethnically diverse urban "community empowered testbed" for translating research findings into practical community-based interventions; 2) to use this infrastructure as a platform to deploy and test innovative research projects with the goal of creating meaningful sustained improvements in the quality of life of lower income older adults; 3) to facilitate the adoption, implementation, and maintenance by the City of Los Angeles Dept. of Aging of empirically-supported community-based programs; 4) to secure resources to ensure the long-term sustainability of the proposed Center. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: By 2030, 20% of Americans will be aged 65 years or greater; clearly it is of tremendous importance to our changing society that we don't give up on seniors but rather identify practical interventions to help older adults meet the Older Americans Act mission of being able to maintain their health and independence. Support for a UCLA-Drew/City of Los Angeles Department of Aging Center for Community Research for Lower Income Older would transform the way community research is conducted by creating a permanent infrastructure that will maintain a real-world ethnically diverse urban "community empowered testbed" for not only deploying and testing behavioral research among lower income seniors across the largest and most ethnically diverse city in the United States, but translating research findings into practical community-based interventions with the goal of creating sustained meaningful improvement in the quality of life of lower income older adults.