Aging and Development

这次竞争性续约是为了继续在老龄化和发展培训计划， 华盛顿大学心理与脑科学系。因为 人口老龄化对社会的需求增加，沿着健康水平的提高 因此，迫切需要培训研究人员，以更好地了解什么会导致和不导致 成功的衰老。要求支持培训下一代 在博士前和博士后水平的老龄化研究人员。有 目前有14名教师谁担任Preceptors（主要导师）在这个程序沿着3 其他（Affiliated Faculty）该培训计划侧重于衰老心理学， 强调多方面的方法，以个别差异，在他们的老化轨迹，包括 以下相互关联的主题：认知老化，认知神经科学在健康和 异常老化、人格和社会老化以及转化科学。尽管受训者将 在这些主题之一的发展深度，该计划的目的是让学员接触广度 跨主题。该计划培训候选人在临床和非临床领域， 华盛顿大学强调衰老和与年龄有关的心理学和益处 疾病，如查尔斯F。Joanne Knight阿尔茨海默病研究中心 和老龄化中心如提案所述，该部继续强调 关于衰老心理学，最近7名教职员工中有5名在以下方面进行了实质性的研究： 老化，这使得这个计划非常适合训练。在这份提案中，我们记录了 计划学员和教师的质量，其完善的培训计划的结构 及其评估，以及培训的成功。

This competitive renewal is to continue the Aging and Development Training Program in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University. Because of the increased demands of an aging population on society along with the concomitant increased health risks, there is a critical need to train researchers to better understand what does and does not lead to successful aging. Requests are made to support the training of the next generation of researchers in aging at both the predoctoral level and at the postdoctoral level. There are currently 14 faculty who serve as the Preceptors (primary mentors) in this program along with 3 Affiliated (Other) faculty. This training program focuses on the Psychology of Aging, and emphasizes a multifaceted approach to individual differences in their aging trajectory including the following interrelated themes: cognitive aging, cognitive neuroscience in healthy and abnormal aging, personality and social aging, and translational science. Although trainees will develop depth within one of these themes, the program is designed to expose trainees to breadth across themes. The program trains candidates both in clinical and non-clinical areas of Psychology and benefits from the emphasis at Washington University on aging and age-related diseases, as reflected by the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and the Center for Aging. As described in the proposal, the Department continues its emphasis on the Psychology of Aging, with 5 of the last 7 faculty hires having substantive research focus in aging, which makes this program ideal for training. In this proposal we document the high quality of the program trainees and faculty, the structure of its well-established training program and its assessment, and the success of the training.