Center for Aging and Policy Studies

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的老龄化和政策研究中心(CAPS)的主要目的是促进NIA促进以人口统计学和老龄化经济学为基础的研究的目标。CAPS将支持两个主题领域的研究：“日常生活中与年龄有关的变化”和“人口变化、晚年福祉和公共政策”。第一个是明确跨学科的，涵盖了与典型衰老过程相关的生理、心理社会、认知和感觉变化与可观察到的“外部”选择和领域中的行为，如满足一个人的自我护理需求，或关于各种活动的类型、频率和强度的选择，或关于一个人的物理环境的性质和相互作用的选择。第二部分论述了各种公共政策和干预措施如何影响各种经济和人口领域的个人选择和行为，以及这些选择和行为本身又如何对公共卫生以及公共政策的设计和有效性产生影响。CAPS的教职员工代表了几个学科，都有与老龄化相关的研究的学术记录，并致力于推动该中心的研究主题和目标。目前，这些研究人员的工作得到了总共10个不同的NIH资助的资助，以及来自其他联邦来源的额外资金。CAPS将包括三个核心，一个行政和研究支持核心，一个研究发展核心，每年支持两个中型试点项目，以及一个外部研究支持和传播核心，其中心活动将是提供半年一次的老年学教育讲习班。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching purpose of the proposed Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) is to contribute to the NIA's goal of promoting research grounded in the demography and economics of aging. CAPS will support research in two thematic areas, "Age-Related Changes in Everyday Context" and "Demographic change, late-life well-being and public policy." The first is explicitly interdisciplinary and encompasses topics that connect physiological, psychosocial, cognitive, and sensory changes associated with the typical aging process to observable "external" choices and behaviors in domains such as meeting one's self-care needs, or choices concerning the type, frequency, and intensity of various activities, or choices regarding the nature of, and interactions with, one's physical environment. The second addresses ways in which individual choices and behaviors in a wide range of economic and demographic domains are influenced by various public policies and interventions, and how those choices and behaviors, in turn, themselves have implications for public health and for the design and effectiveness of public policies. CAPS faculty affiliates represent several disciplines, and all have a track record of scholarship in aging-related research, as well as a commitment to furthering the research themes and goals of the Center. At present, these researchers' work is supported by a total of 10 different NIH-funded grants, along with additional funds from other Federal sources. CAPS will contain three cores, an Administrative and Research Support Core, a Research Development Core which will support two midsized pilot projects in each year, and an External Research Support and Dissemination Core, a central activity of which will be to offer semi-annual Gerontology Education Workshops.