ROCHESTER AREA PEPPER CENTER

罗切斯特大学和罗切斯特社区共同努力 美国老年人独立中心（OAIC） 罗切斯特号 地区胡椒中心（RAPC）将利用大量资源， 生物医学研究，包括实验治疗学和生物统计学， 医疗保健创新和研究，以及临床护理计划， 老年病和长期护理，启动干预研究，以改善 美国老年人保持独立的能力。 的模型 中心是基于观察，临床功能障碍导致 依赖性沿着一个连续体发生， 从一级预防到三级预防， 功能衰退 这些项目包括两项干预研究（急性 老年人呼吸道感染，W。大厅;小便池： 治疗算法，T.威尔斯）和两项干预措施开发研究 肌肉肥大和蛋白质合成：年龄的影响（S。韦勒）和 Carbamazepine Therapy of Agitation in Dementia（P. Tariot）. 所有项目 解决导致功能障碍的重要疾病/功能障碍 依赖 这些项目将利用三个核心（老年评估 （R. Panzer）、卫生服务研究（J. Zimmer）、生物统计学（M. 坦纳），以便整合临床数据并确定 他们的计划方案。 RAPC已经开发了一个主要的研究开发 核心是确保招募和培训未来的临床学者 都很成功 罗切斯特社区是一个理想的环境， 发起信息传播项目和示范 项目 总而言之，区域行动方案委员会将成为 在老龄化方面结合一些计划，这些计划将带来巨大的 为中心提供力量，并明确多学科的使命 罗切斯特的老年医学项目

The University of Rochester and the Rochester Community have joined efforts to establish an Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC). The Rochester Area Pepper Center (RAPC) will draw on the substantial resources in biomedical research including experimental therapeutics and biostatistics, health care innovations and research, and clinical care programs in geriatrics and long term care, to initiate intervention studies to improve the ability of older Americans to remain independent. The model of the Center is based on the observation that clinical dysfunction leading to dependence occurs along a continuum that the therapeutic strategies targeted at various loci from primary to tertiary prevention may reduce functional decline. The projects include two intervention studies (Acute Respiratory Tract Infection in the Elderly, W. Hall; Urinary Incontinence: Treatment Algorithm, T. Wells), and two interventions development studies (Muscle Hypertrophy and Protein Synthesis: Effect of Age (S. Welle) and Carbamazepine Therapy of Agitation in Dementia (P. Tariot). All projects address important diseases/dysfunctions which lead to functional dependence. The projects will utilize three cores (Geriatric Assessment (R. Panzer), Health Services Research (J. Zimmer), Biostatistics (M. Tanner) in order to integrate clinical data and determine the success of their planned program. The RAPC has developed a major Research Development Core to ensure that recruitment and training of future clinical scholars are successful. The Rochester community is an ideal environment for the initiation of information dissemination projects, and demonstration projects. In summary, the RAPC will become the leading organizational structure in coalescing a number of programs in aging, programs which will bring great strength to the Center, and crystallizing a multidisciplinary mission of geriatric programs in Rochester.