Black Male Dementia Caregiver Burden: Stress-related Cognitive Dysfunction, and physiological and psychosocial measures

黑人男性痴呆症照顾者负担：与压力相关的认知功能障碍，以及生理和 心理社会措施。 项目总结/摘要 Robert W.特纳二世是乔治大学医学与健康科学学院的助理教授。 华盛顿大学，并在杜克大学健康与社会中心担任访问学者 大学他接受过医学社会学、人种学方法和健康差异研究方面的培训。他 以前和现在的工作使他接触到了与以下方面有关的理论观点和经验方法： 男性健康差距和老龄化研究。2017年8月，他获得了为期五年的指导研究 科学家发展奖（1 K 01 AG 054762 - 01 A1）从国家老龄化研究所的培训和 支持解决他对阿尔茨海默病和相关疾病的生物行为因素的知识差距 痴呆（ADRD）与轻度创伤性脑损伤（mTBI）和加速认知老化有关。在 与他的指导团队（蒂姆·斯特劳曼博士，基思惠特菲尔德和托尼·安东努奇）合作，他 制定了一项全面的培训和研究计划，既填补了这些知识空白， 他的独立研究生涯。他的K 01的首要目标是获得有关 与AD相关的心理社会和神经认知因素的多项测量之间的相互关系 痴呆症有关的加速认知老化，并作为桥梁，他建立一个独立的 从事成年男性人群生物行为健康差异研究的研究员职业。的 这份行政补充文件的目的是通过评估以下措施的效果来扩大他的研究计划： 老年痴呆症对成年人的认知功能造成压力。虽然最近对这个问题的兴趣有所增加， 多年来，稀疏的文献存在于成年黑人男性作为痴呆症患者的主要照顾者， 特别容易受到各种形式的压力。成人认知健康知识 黑人主要照顾者将允许医疗保健系统更好地支持这一群体， 在照顾越来越多的老年痴呆症患者方面至关重要。

Title: Black Male Dementia Caregiver Burden: stress-related cognitive dysfunction, and physiological and psychosocial measures. PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Robert W. Turner II is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, at The George Washington University, and holds a visiting fellow appointment in the Center on Health and Society at Duke University. He has training in medical sociology, ethnographic methods, and health disparities research. His previous and current work has exposed him to theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches pertinent to health disparity and aging research among men. In August, 2017, he received a five-year Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (1K01AG054762-01A1) from the National Institute on Aging for training and support that address gaps in his knowledge of biobehavioral factors underlying Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD) related to mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and accelerated cognitive aging. In collaboration with his mentoring team (Drs. Tim Strauman, Keith Whitfield, and Toni Antonucci) he has developed a comprehensive training and research plan that will both fill in these knowledge gaps and prepare him for an independent research career. The overarching goal of his K01 is to gain expertise on the interrelationships between multiple measures of psychosocial and neurocognitive factors associated with AD dementia related to accelerated cognitive aging, and serve as bridge for him to establish an independent investigator career in conducting biobehavioral health disparities research in adult male populations. The objective of this administrative supplement is to extend his program of research by evaluating the effect of dementia caregiving stress on cognitive function in adults. While interest in this issue has increased in recent years, sparse literature exists on adult black males as primary caregivers of a person with dementia, a growing subpopulation particularly vulnerable to various forms of stress. Knowledge about the cognitive health of adult black make primary caregivers will allow for the healthcare system to better support this group that will be paramount in caring for a growing number of older individuals with dementia.