Conference Series: Bedside to Bench

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一个为期3年的会议系列的建议，通过U-13会议奖助金的机制，由美国老年医学学会赞助。该奖项将支持每年举办一次为期3年的年度讲习班。这些题为“从床边到工作台”的讲习班的广泛目标是加强对临床老年问题的研究关注，这些问题是临床上迫切需要关注的问题，或者如果科学知识先进，有可能极大地改善老年人的临床护理或预防。所提议的每一次会议的短期结果是为这些紧迫的老年临床问题确定推荐的研究议程。推荐研究的最终结果将是获得并转化研究结果，以改善老年人的临床护理和健康结果。第一年的会议将以“老年人虚弱的研究议程：更好地理解生理学和病因学”为主题。第二年，我们将举办“了解老年人并存疾病和疾病总负担的工作会议”。第三届年会的题目是“认知活动对晚年认知功能的影响”。每一次邀请性会议都将由一个外地专家组织委员会指导，该委员会将确定和邀请发言者，召集会议，指导科学重点，并确保编写会议记录的最后报告，并出版提出每个领域研究议程的文件。这些报告将作为补充发表在《美国老年病学会杂志》上，并提交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.