Trajectories of Aging and Care In Nursing Science

描述：(摘自申请者摘要)TRAC的总体目标 中心的目的是提高护士调查人员检查模式的能力 老年人的健康、疾病和护理随着时间的推移和不同的 环境，包括家庭和机构。具体目标是：1)研究 生物、心理、社会和环境因素对老年人健康模式的影响 将晚年生活作为开发创新方法进行优化的基础 衰老和护理的轨迹。2)制定旨在改善 预防疾病或功能衰退的干预措施的有效性，促进 疾病的康复和功能的恢复，支持和加强 可能的，死亡的过程，并帮助老年人达到或保持高 生活质量。3)提高新老护士的工作效率 科学家从事与衰老和护理轨迹相关的研究。 4)开展新的合作研究，研究影响以下目标的因素 老龄化和护理，并扩大与来自 爱荷华大学老年护理研究中心及其他NINR 研究中心。试点/可行性研究核心将支持 开发、审查并及时完成高绩效试行/可行性 研究的重点是衰老和护理的轨迹。行政核心意志 整合和协调中心的所有组件，并同时提供 纵向研究设计和分析方面的培训和咨询，以及 简化了对纵向数据库的访问，以研究影响 晚年的健康和护理轨迹，为 确定护理干预的潜在目标。TRAC中心将 将来自不同领域的护士科学家和领先的调查人员聚集在一起 学科进行护士指导的跨学科研究，将 加强设计和测试干预措施的科学基础 优化健康、疾病和晚年护理的轨迹，以增加 避免健康状况过早下降的可能性， 患者和家属理解不可避免的衰退，这是可以避免的 不良后果是公认的，并有针对性地进行干预。

DESCRIPTION: (from applicant's Abstract) The overall goal of the TRAC Center is to enhance the capacity for nurse investigators to examine patterns of health, illness, and care among the elderly over time and across diverse settings, including home and institution. Specific aims are to: 1)Study the influence of biopsychosocial and environmental factors on patterns of health in later life as a basis for developing innovative approaches to optimizing trajectories of aging and care. 2) Develop approaches aimed at improving the efficacy of interventions to prevent disease or declines in function, promote recovery from illness and restoration of function, support and enhance where possible, the dying process, and help older adults attain or maintain a high quality of life. 3)Enhance the productivity of both new and established nurse scientists engaged in research related to trajectories of aging and care. 4)Develop new collaborative research on factors influencing trajectories of aging and care and expand existing collaboration with investigators from the Gerontological Nursing Research Center at the University of Iowa and other NINR Research centers. A Pilot/Feasibility Studies Core will support the development, review, and timely completion of high merit pilot/feasibility studies focused on trajectories of aging and care. An Administrative Core will integrate and coordinate all components of the Center, and provide both training and consultation in longitudinal research design and analysis, and streamlined access to longitudinal databases to study factors that influence health and care trajectories in later life, providing an empirical basis for identifying potential targets for nursing intervention. The TRAC Center will bring together nurse scientists and leading investigators from a variety of disciplines to conduct nurse directed interdisciplinary studies that will strengthen the scientific basis for designing and testing interventions that optimize trajectories of health, illness and care in later life, to increase the likelihood that premature decline in health status is avoided, that inevitable decline is understood by patients and families, and that avoidable adverse outcomes are recognized and targeted for intervention.