TEACHING NURSING HOME

拟建的教学疗养院将被组织和 通过对慢性疾病的共同关注来整合 病因或预防措施不清楚的老年人，其 进展是不可逆转的，其影响包括 功能或认知障碍，导致长期 依赖家庭照顾者或机构照看。 来自医学和护理学院的研究人员以及来自 爱荷华州退伍军人之家将聚集在一起解决 这一中心主题的各个方面，强调 病因学和疾病进展的流行病学方法 并强调社会心理方法对损害的影响 以及依赖的影响。TNH最初将包括 5项R01亚研究，包括：影响因素的病例对照研究 与帕金森氏症相关的危险因素研究 骨质疏松症，一种评估特殊护理效果的实验 住院SDAT患者的策略，纵向 应激与社会支持的交互作用研究 系统性红斑狼疮患者的家庭照顾者及其认知功能研究 轻度智力低下的老年人。TNH还将有一个 中央核心股，它将协调和同行审查 子研究并为他们提供集中的数据处理， 访谈和统计咨询服务。然而， 核心的主要目的是规划、激励和协助 开发新的研究工作，并最终开发一种 全校范围内的研究重点是TNH重点主题。

The proposed Teaching Nursing Home will be organized and integrated by a common focus on chronic conditions of the elderly, whose etiology or prevention is not well known, whose progression is irreversible, and whose effects include significant functional or cognitive impairment, leading to long-term dependence on family care-givers or institutional care. Researchers from the Colleges of Medicine and Nursing and from the Iowa State Veterans Home will be brought together to address various aspects of this central theme, emphasizing epidemiological approaches to etiology and disease progression and emphasizing social psychological approaches to impairment and the effects of dependence. The TNH will initially consist of five R01 substudies including: a case control study of factors related to Parkinson's disease, a study of risk factors for osteoporosis, an experiment to assess the effects of special care strategies for institutionalized SDAT patients, a longitudinal study of the interacting effects of stress and social support on family care-givers of SDAT patients, and a study of cognitive decline in mildly retarded elderly. The TNH will also have a central Core Unit, which will coordinate and peer-review the substudies and provide them with centralized data processing, interviewing and statistical consulting services. However, the primary purpose of the Core is to plan, stimulate, and assist in development of new research efforts and, ultimately, to develop a campus-wide research emphasis on the TNH focal theme.