Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：这是密歇根大学和韦恩州立大学的密歇根城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心（MCUAAAR）的继续申请。这个拟议的资源中心的总体目标是促进高质量的学术和经验培训、研究和干预，重点是促进老年种族和少数民族人口的健康。该应用程序建立在这两个州立机构的教师和学生的工作和专业知识的基础上，以经验调查非裔美国人一生中的健康不平等。幸运的是，我们培养了一批知识渊博的研究人员，每所大学都吸引了大量多民族的教师和研究生，他们对研究黑人和其他少数民族人口的老龄化和人类发展感兴趣。我们建议将MCUAAAR作为密歇根大学美国黑人研究项目（PRBA）和生命历程发展项目（LCD）在社会研究所、护理学院、公共卫生学院、老年学研究所、韦恩州立大学护理学院和城市研究中心以及底特律大都会地区的社区组织（CBO）中的一个行政、培训和科研机构继续下去。这个拟议的少数民族老龄化资源中心建立在密歇根大学、华盛顿州立大学和社区组织之间的其他合作研究和管理安排的基础上。拟议的资源中心将包含四个相互作用的组成部分：1)行政核心将提供行政支持，促进知识交流，并在拟议的中心内部以及与其他大学单位和社区卫生服务站进行全面协调；2)社区联络中心将加强现有的社区研究和服务关系，领导社区参与者参与的“科学”研究，并为拟议的试点研究和干预工作提供合作社区受访者的来源；3)研究者发展核心将识别、选择和指导对少数民族老年人健康研究和干预感兴趣的多学科、多文化研究者，并支持发展指导少数民族研究者的“科学”；4)测量核心将作为培训和研究的焦点，并在完善和磨练所有研究人员，特别是进行试点研究的年轻研究人员的研究兴趣方面发挥领导作用。最后，我们建议作为RCMAR协调中心，协助在少数民族老龄化研究的国家资源中心、NIA、公共和其他NIA支持的工作（如阿尔茨海默病、休克、皇家和胡椒中心）之间提供智力和行政联系。总之，拟议的MCUAAAR将提供现有和新的试点方法的综合组合，拟议的文化敏感研究和干预活动的广泛范围，以及由现有研究人员和适当指导的早期研究人员组成的多学科和多民族团队。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application to continue the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. The overall objective of this proposed resource center is to foster high quality scholarly and empirical training, research, and interventions focused upon health promotion and health among older racial and ethnic minority populations. This application builds upon the work and expertise of faculty and students in these two state institutions to empirically investigate African American health inequalities over the life-course. We have been fortunate in developing a knowledgeable group of research personnel and attracting to each university a large number of multi-ethnic faculty and graduate students with interests in the study of aging and human development in black and other minority populations. We propose to continue the MCUAAAR as an administrative, training, and scientific research organization among the University of Michigan's Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) and Life-Course Development (LCD) at the Institute for Social Research, School of Nursing, School of Public Health, the Institute of Gerontology, School of Nursing and Urban Studies Center at Wayne State University, and community based organizations (CBO) in the greater Detroit Metropolitan area. This proposed minority aging resource center builds on other cooperative research and administrative arrangements between UM, WSU and community based organizations. The proposed resource center will contain four interacting components: 1) the Administrative Core will provide administrative support, facilitate intellectual interchange, and provide overall coordination within the proposed Center and with other university units and community health service sites; 2) the Community Liaison Core will strengthen existing community research and service relationships, lead in the research on the "science" of community participant involvement, and provide sources of cooperating community respondents for the proposed pilot research and intervention efforts; 3) the Investigator Development Core will identify, select, and mentor multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural investigators interested in research and interventions on the health of minority elders and support efforts to develop a "science" of mentoring minority investigators; and, 4) the Measurement Core will serve as a training and research focal point and assume leadership in refining and honing the research interests of all the investigators, but especially young investigators conducting pilot studies. Finally, we propose to serve as the RCMAR Coordinating Center and assist in providing intellectual and administrative ties among the selected national group of Resource Centers on Minority Aging Research, the NIA, public and other NIA supported efforts, e.g. Alzheimer's, Shock, Roybal and Pepper Centers. In sum, the proposed MCUAAAR will provide a comprehensive mix of established and new pilot methodologies, a broad scope of proposed culturally sensitive research and intervention activities, and a multi-disciplinary and multi-ethnic team of established researchers and appropriately mentored early investigators. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. James S. Jackson is a professor and research scientist in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. CORES CORE A: Administrative, Drs. James S. Jackson and Peter Lichenberg DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of this request for support of the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) is for continued resources to promote health research on minority elders, particularly African American elders, that will lead to health promotion and the reduction and elimination of health disparities as called for in Healthy People 2010 through several approaches consistent with the NIA's 2000-2005 Strategic Plan. Examples of MCUAAAR's efforts include continued development of its successful mentoring program focused on building a network of minority investigators who are committed to becoming productive scholars in the area of health and aging. Health promotion and the reduction and elimination of health disparities is only possible with the effective recruitment and retention of African American and other minority elders in health research. We will continue to build upon our productive research program in this area and continue to reach out to seniors in the city of Detroit with the explicit purpose of building upon our developed databases of individuals who have agreed to be contacted for health research purposes. We have demonstrated our ability to form productive, collaborative relationships over the prior five-year period and will continue and extend our collaborations in this grant period with NIA Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers, NIA Claude Pepper Centers for Independence, the Population Studies Center and the NACDA at the Institute for Social Research. During the last five year period we have joined with a wide set of relevant NIA Centers, university, and community organizations at our two main institutions and in the region, as well as at select institutions around the country. Building on the strengths at the University of Michigan (UM) and Wayne State University (WSU), our specific set of related loci will be research on health and health promotion with a special emphasis on our relative research strengths in cognitive functioning and dysfunction, cognitive appraisal, and perception as they relate to a wide range of health outcomes and disorders, the promotion of independence, and the understanding of how demographic and social changes relate to health disparities and their elimination among older African Americans and other minority populations.