CLAUDE D. PEPPER OLDER AMERICANS INDEPENDENCE CENTERS

杜克老年美国人独立中心（OAIC）的组织， 促进制定干预措施，以提高 老年美国人，以支持医生和其他健康的培训， 专业人员的研究生涯中的研究这种干预措施， 并将这些研究的结果传播给其他健康 专业人士和公众。我们中心的总体主题是 旨在改善轴向运动障碍的干预措施 骷髅功能 能力将是这些结果的衡量标准， 干预措施。OAIC将设在杜克研究中心 老龄化和人类发展，一个所有大学的多学科 程序.它将利用杜克丰富的资源 大学医学中心，杜克老龄中心，达勒姆VA GRECC， GRTC和其他附属项目。此类程序的实例 包括达勒姆弗吉尼亚州卫生服务研究和发展计划， 老年抑郁症临床研究中心，阿尔茨海默氏症 疾病研究中心，流行病学既定人群 老年人研究，行为医学计划和心脏中心。 这个丰富的环境包括96名老龄中心的高级研究员， 研究人员在1350万美元的资助下， 与这个项目的工作有关。历史悠久的博士后 研究和老年医学培训计划是 职业发展。审计和调查办公室将支持两项主要干预措施 研究：生活护理社区妇女的残疾和骨质疏松症，以及 有氧与轴向/有氧训练：改善功能;和两个 干预发展研究：运动、轴向活动和功能 和帕金森病患者的轴向运动。一 测量（生物力学、物理、功能和心理社会）和 分析（生物统计学、临床试验和经济学）。研究 发展计划将提供指导的研究经验， 必要时进行教学培训。两名初级教员将 在第一年提供支助，并为试点项目提供资金， 通过竞争性应用程序。一个示范和 传播核心将提供传播新闻的能力， 关于增强其他健康功能的方法的信息 专业人士和公众。

The Duke Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) is organized to promote the development of interventions to increase the independence of older Americans, to support the training of physicians and other health professionals for research careers in the study of such interventions, and to disseminate the findings from such research to other health professionals and the public. The overall theme of our center will be interventions directed towards improvement of dysmobility of the axial skeleton. Functional abilities will be the outcome measures for these interventions. The OAIC will be based in the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, an all-university multi-disciplinary program. It will take advantage of the rich resources of the Duke University Medical Center, the Duke Aging Center, the Durham VA GRECC, the GRTC, and other affiliated programs. Examples of such programs include the Durham VA Health Services Research and Development Program, Clinical Research Center for Depression in the Elderly, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, Behavioral Medicine Program, and Heart Center. This rich milieu includes 96 senior fellows of the Aging Center and investigators with 13.5 million dollars of funded research in areas related to the work of this project. The long-established post-doctoral Research, and Geriatrics Training Programs serve as natural feeders for career development. The OAIC will support two major intervention studies: Disability and Osteoporosis in Life-Care Community Women, and Aerobic vs. Axial/Aerobic Training: Improvement in Function; and two intervention development studies: Exercise, Axial Mobility and Function and Axial Mobility Exercises for Parkinson's Disease Patients. A Measurement (biomechanical, physical, functional and psychosocial) and Analysis (Biostatistical, clinical trials, and economic). The Research Development program will provide mentored research experiences and didactic training where needed. Two junior faculty trainees will be supported in the first year and funding for pilot projects will be made available through competitive applications. A Demonstration and Dissemination Core will provide the capability to transmit new information about methods for enhancing function to other health professionals and the public.