Life Course Center for the Demography and Economics of Aging

项目总结/摘要 明尼苏达大学的生命课程中心（LCC）是一个新兴的创新研究孵化器 老龄化的人口统计学和经济学。作为NIA支持的大学范围内的合作，LCC将招募 并促进跨学科研究人员之间的联系;发展领先的合作试点研究 老龄化背景，趋势，动态和差异;为研究提供技术和行政支持 发展研究网络，利用大规模人口数据， 关于社会决定因素和老龄化与健康背景的跨学科奖学金。在接下来的五年里， 我们将专注于三个研究主题，这些主题对了解我们国家的人口统计学和经济学至关重要。 老龄化社会。这些主题利用了我们的智力优势和独特的资源：（1）以后的生活历程 背景中的人口趋势：人口的空间、时间和社会位置之内和之间的决定因素 老年人身体和认知功能（包括AD/ADRD）、残疾、发病率、死亡率的趋势， 健康和幸福。 (2)作为差异机制的生命历程动力学：生命历程路径如何促进 健康老龄化的差异，包括保护因素（例如，社会参与和支持，收入充足， 积极的早期决定因素和健康行为）。 (3)工作、家庭、社区的相互关系 参与和健康：晚年工作、家庭和社区参与对健康的影响 老年工人和退休人员的结果。我们将建立三个基础设施核心，以克服关键障碍， 核心A：行政和研究支持核心。这个核心将提供领导 此外，还将为其他两个核心的活动提供后勤支助和监督。该核心还将 负责满足所有向协调中心报告的要求。核心B：项目开发 核心LCC将支持小规模，创新的跨学科研究项目。核心基金每年将 LCC成员和外部创新委员会成员提出的四到六个优秀试点项目 网络核心。拟议的试点计划将优先支持早期职业调查人员， 调查人员来自历史上代表性不足的群体。核心C：外部创新网络核心。网络 将培养一个跨学科的研究人员社区，专注于人口统计学和老龄化经济学 他们将分享使用大量人口数据和应用生命过程视角的知识和资源 到衰老研究。网络核心将解决与大人口数据相关的挑战， 基于记录链接的纵向数据和受限访问数据。

Project Summary/Abstract The Life Course Center (LCC) at the University of Minnesota is an emerging incubator for innovative research on the demography and economics of aging. As an NIA-supported University-wide cooperative, LCC will recruit and foster connections among researchers across disciplines; develop leading-edge collaborative pilot studies on aging contexts, trends, dynamics, and disparities; provide technical and administrative support for research development; and develop a research network to leverage large-scale population data to advance interdisciplinary scholarship on social determinants and contexts of aging and health. Over the next five years, we will focus on three research themes that are crucial to understanding the demography and economics of our aging society. These themes leverage our intellectual strengths and unique resources: (1) Later Life-Course Population Trends in Context: Determinants within and across space, time, and social location of population trends at older ages in physical and cognitive functioning (including AD/ADRD), disability, morbidity, mortality, health and well-being. (2) Life-Course Dynamics as Disparity Mechanisms: How life-course pathways foster disparities in healthy aging, including protective factors (e.g., social engagement and support, income adequacy, positive early determinants, and health behaviors). (3) Interrelationships of Work, Family, Community Participation, and Health: Consequences of later life work, family and community participation for health outcomes of older workers and retirees. We will establish three infrastructure cores to overcome key barriers to path-breaking research: Core A: Administrative and Research Support Core. This Core will provide leadership and vision, as well as logistical support and oversight for the activities of the other two Cores. This Core will also be responsible for meeting all reporting requirements to the Coordinating Center. Core B: Program Development Core. LCC will support small-scale, innovative interdisciplinary research projects. The Core will annually fund four to six outstanding pilot projects proposed by LCC members and from members of the External Innovative Network Core. The proposed pilot program will prioritize support of early career investigators as well as investigators from historically underrepresented groups. Core C: External Innovative Network Core. The Network will foster an interdisciplinary community of researchers focusing on the demography and economics of aging who will share knowledge and resources for using big population data and for applying a life-course perspective to aging research. The Network Core will address challenges associated with big population data, prospective longitudinal data based on record linkage, and restricted access data.