UCSF Older Americans Independence Center

项目总结：整体OAIC 加州大学旧金山分校OAIC的主题是“老年残疾的预测因素、结果和改善：关注 易受伤害的人群。加州大学旧金山分校OAIC支持一个跨学科的调查社区 他们的发现增进了我们对残疾的理解，特别是在那些患有医学和社会性残疾的人 漏洞。我们的OAIC将脆弱性概念化为医疗脆弱性和 我们已经证明，医疗和社会脆弱性有着千丝万缕的联系。 OAIC一直是加州大学旧金山分校的一股激励力量，与加州大学旧金山分校的其他中心结成联盟。我们有 将核心老年学概念应用于各种学科的脆弱老年人，如肿瘤学和 做手术。我们在社会和医疗脆弱性相互作用方面的工作使我们更好地理解了 如何满足识字率低、无家可归或被监禁的老年人的需求。我们的 对导师的奉献精神导致了许多GEMSSTAR和比森奖。 在下一个周期中，我们将在我们的记录基础上，支持职业学者和飞行员获奖者 参与了以老年人复杂的医疗和/或社会脆弱性为重点的创新项目。 我们将继续找出增加残疾风险和不利影响的因素。 残疾老年人的生活质量，我们将制定战略来改善这些结果。我们的两个 资源核心将促进广泛的临床和结果研究。我们的数据和分析核心 将促进使用对弱势群体的残疾研究特别有用的高质量数据来源 并将提供统计咨询。我们脆弱的老龄化招聘和留住核心 将支持在老年人口中进行新的研究，这些研究传统上很难在研究中登记和保留， 在我们发展的能力的基础上，让居家、认知障碍、无家可归者和低收入者- 识字老年人以及养老院、安全网医院和教养设施中的老年人。 加州大学旧金山分校OAIC的首要目标是培养一种以使命为导向的卓越文化，其基础是 致力于改善有残疾或有残疾风险的弱势老年人的生活质量。我们有5个目标： 1.在加州大学旧金山分校催化关于弱势老年人残疾的研究，作为一个枢纽，带来 把学者和杠杆资源聚集在一起。 2.提供对数据资源的核心访问、统计支持以及招收和留住弱势群体的专业知识 为鼓励对残疾问题进行新的研究，对较老的研究对象进行了研究。 3.支持促进科学的先导性研究，并为晚年残疾研究提供资金。 4.确定老龄化研究的未来领导者，并为他们提供职业发展资金和指导。 5.建立一个促进跨学科合作的领导和管理结构，使 OAIC大于其各部分之和。

Project Summary: Overall OAIC The UCSF OAIC theme is “Predictors, Outcomes, and Amelioration of Late-life Disability: A Focus on Vulnerable Populations.” The UCSF OAIC has supported an interdisciplinary community of investigators whose discoveries have enhanced our understanding of disability, especially in those with medical and social vulnerabilities. Our OAIC conceptualizes vulnerability as a complex interplay of both medical vulnerability and social vulnerability, and we have demonstrated that medical and social vulnerabilities are inextricably linked. The OAIC has been a galvanizing force at UCSF, forging alliances with other UCSF centers. We have applied core geriatric concepts to vulnerable older adults in a wide range of disciplines such as oncology and surgery. Our work on the interaction of social and medical vulnerability has led to a better understanding of how to address the needs of older adults who have low literacy, are homeless, or are incarcerated. Our dedication to mentoring has led to many GEMSSTAR and Beeson Awards. During the next cycle we will build on our track record, supporting career scholars and pilot awardees who are engaged in innovative projects that focus on older persons’ complex medical and/or social vulnerabilities. We will continue to identify factors that increase the risk of developing disability and that adversely affect quality of life of disabled older adults, and we will develop strategies to improve these outcomes. Our two resource cores will catalyze a wide spectrum of clinical and outcomes research. Our Data and Analysis Core will facilitate the use of high quality data sources that are particularly useful for disability research in vulnerable older persons and will provide statistical consultation. Our Vulnerable Aging Recruitment and Retention Core will support new research among older populations that are traditionally difficult to enroll and retain in studies, building on the capacity we have developed to engage homebound, cognitively impaired, homeless, and low- literacy older adults as well as elders in nursing homes, safety net hospitals, and correctional facilities. The overriding goal of UCSF’s OAIC is to foster a mission-driven culture of excellence grounded in a commitment to improving quality of life for vulnerable older adults with or at risk for disability. We have 5 aims: 1. Catalyze research on disability in vulnerable older persons at UCSF by serving as a hub that brings together scholars and leverages resources. 2. Provide core access to data resources, statistical support, and expertise enrolling and retaining vulnerable older subjects in order to stimulate new research on disability. 3. Support pilot studies that accelerate science and lead to research funding in late life disability. 4. Identify future leaders of aging research and support them with career development funding and mentoring. 5. Develop a leadership and administrative structure that spurs interdisciplinary collaboration, making the OAIC greater than the sum of its parts.