Conference Series: Bedside to Bench

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个3年系列会议的提案，通过U-13会议资助奖的机制，由美国老年医学会赞助。该奖项将支持每年举办一次年度研讨会，为期三年。这些题为“从病床到病床”的讲习班的广泛目标是加强对临床老年病学问题的研究关注，这些问题是临床迫切关注的问题，如果科学知识得到进步，这些问题有可能大大改善老年人的临床护理或预防。提出的每次会议的短期结果是确定这些紧迫的临床老年问题的推荐研究议程。建议的研究的最终结果将是获得和转化将改善老年人临床护理和健康结果的研究结果。第一年的会议将以“老年人虚弱研究议程：更好地理解生理学和病因学”为主题。第二年，我们将举办“了解老年人共病和疾病总负担工作会议”。第三届年会的主题是“认知活动对晚年认知功能的影响”。每一次邀请会议都将由一个由该领域专家组成的组织委员会指导，他们将确定和邀请演讲者，召集会议，指导科学重点，并确保准备关于会议记录的最终报告，并出版提出每个领域研究议程的文件。这些报告将作为《美国老年病学会杂志》的增刊发表，并转发给国家老龄研究所供其考虑。会议本身将由美国老年医学会的工作人员组织。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal for a 3-year conference series, through the mechanism of a U-13 conference grant award, sponsored by the American Geriatrics Society. The Award would support the conduct of an annual workshop each year for 3 years. The broad goal of these workshops, entitled "Bedside to Bench", is to heighten research attention on clinical geriatric issues that are of pressing concern clinically or has the potential to greatly improve clinical care or prevention for older adults if scientific knowledge is advanced. The short-term outcome of each of the conferences proposed is to identify the recommended research agenda for these pressing clinical geriatric issues. The Ultimate outcome of the recommended research will be to obtain and translate research results that will improve the clinical care and Health outcomes of older adults. The Conference in the first year will be on a "Research Agenda for Frailty in Older Adults: towards a better understanding of physiology and etiology". In the second year, we will conduct a "Working conference on Understanding Comorbid Disease and Total Burden of Disease in Older Adults". The third Annual conference will be entitled "Effects of Cognitive activity on Cognitive Function in Late Life". Each of these invitational conferences will be directed by an organizing committee of experts in the field, who will identify and invite speakers, convene the conference, direct the scientific focus, and ensure the preparation of final reports on the proceedings of the meeting and publication of documents that propose a research agenda in each area. These reports will be published as supplements in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and forwarded to the National Institute on Aging for it's consideration. The meetings themselves will be organized by the staff of the American Geriatrics Society.