Cornell Roybal Center for Translational Research

科梅尔大学罗伊巴尔中心的目标是将引人注目的新理论和实证研究成果应用于 社会融合和隔离领域，统一目标是改善老年人的健康和生活质量 成年人了不同的研究机构清楚地表明，社交网络和支持的缺陷与以下因素有关： 老年人的死亡率、发病率高，保健费用增加。此外，社会问题 由于重大的人生转变，老年人更加普遍地感到孤独和社会支持不足。 虽然这些转变往往是不可避免的，但社会孤立的后果可能是可以接受的。 干预在这次更新中，现有康奈尔罗伊巴尔中心的优势和专业知识将与两个 康奈尔大学系统内其他著名的老龄化中心：康奈尔大学老龄化研究和临床护理中心 威尔科梅尔医学院和康奈尔大学精神病学分部的老年精神病学研究所。这 康奈尔罗伊巴尔中心的扩建将被称为综合翻译研究中心， 老龄化和社会融合。这种独特的伙伴关系汇集了三个关键领域， 老龄化和社会融合的转化研究：心理健康，临床研究和社会科学。一个 该提案的一个特别重要的特点是社区利益相关者在每个阶段的参与， 研究进程，从而承认孤独老年人的复杂、多方面的需求， 为他们服务的选民。这些合作伙伴关系将把中心的干预措施带到最具社会影响力的地方 孤立的老年人服务，创造一个“实验室”，我们将研究提供有效的 治疗。Roybal中心更新的具体目标包括：1）促进和测试基于 涉及社会融合对身心健康影响的干预措施。2.汇集 研究人员与从业人员在老龄化领域的设计和实施干预措施，并应用 研究; 3。通过中心的管理核心创建有效的基础架构， 协调各个调查员的活动，最大限度地提高实际应用的效力。 4.制定、指导和评估关于社会融合和健康成果主题的试点项目。 5.通过指导和协助调查人员，从联邦和其他来源获得资助的研究项目。 6.特别关注少数群体社区的社会孤立问题， 与纽约长老会医院少数民族老龄化研究资源中心的联系。

The goal of the Roybal Center at Comell University is to apply compelling new theoretical and empirical findings in the area of social integration and isolation, with the unified goal of improving health and quality of life for older adults. Diverse bodies of research clearly indicate that deficits in social networks and support are associated with substantial mortality, morbidity, and increased health care costs in older persons. Further, the problems of social isolation and inadequate social support are more prevalent among older people by virtue of major life transitions. Although these transitions are often inevitable, the consequences of social isolation are potentially amenable to intervention. In this renewal, the strengths and expertise of existing Cornell Roybal Center will be merged with two other prominent centers on aging within the Cornell system: the Center for Aging Research and Clinical Care at the Weill Comell Medical College; and the Institute for Geriatric Psychiatry at Cornell's Psychiatric Division. This expansion of the Cornell Roybal Center will be called The Center for Integrated Translational Research on Aging and Social Integration (CITRAS). This unique partnership brings together the three areas crucial for translational research on aging and social integration: mental health, clinical research, and social science. An especially important feature of this proposal is the engagement of community stakeholders at every stage in the research process, thereby acknowledging the complex, multidimensional needs of isolated older people and the constituencies that serve them. These partnerships will bring Center interventions to locations where most socially isolated older persons are served, creating a "laboratory" in which we will study the delivery of efficacious treatments. Specific objectives for this renewal of the Roybal Center include: 1) Promoting and testing researchbased interventions involving the impact of social integration on mental and physical health. 2. Bringing together researchers with practitioners in the field of aging in the design and implementation of interventions and applied research studies; 3. Creating an effective infrastructure through the management core of the center that will coordinate the activities of individual investigators and maximize the effectiveness of practical applications. 4. Developing, mentoring, and evaluating pilot projects on the themes of social integration and health outcomes. 5. Generating funded research projects from federal and other sources, by mentoring and assisting investigators. 6. Devoting special attention to social isolation in minority communities, which will be enhanced by a formal connection to the Resource Center for Minority Aging Research at New York Presbyterian Hospital.