CLAUDE D PEPPER OLDER AMERICANS INDEPENDENCE CENTERS

杜克老年美国人独立中心(OAIC)的组织是为了 促进干预措施的发展，以增加国家的独立性 老年美国人，支持医生培训和其他健康 从事这类干预研究工作的专业人员， 并将这项研究的结果传播给其他健康机构 专业人士和公众。我们中心的总体主题将是 旨在改善轴向运动障碍的干预措施 骷髅。功能能力将是这些指标的结果衡量标准 干预措施。OAIC将以杜克中心为基地进行研究 老龄化与人的发展：一所全大学的多学科 程序。它将利用公爵丰富的资源 大学医学中心，杜克老龄中心，达勒姆退伍军人事务部， GRTC和其他附属计划。这类计划的例子 包括达勒姆退伍军人健康服务研究和发展计划， 阿尔茨海默病老年抑郁症临床研究中心 疾病研究中心，建立流行病学研究人群 老年研究、行为医学计划和心脏中心。 这一丰富的环境包括96名老龄中心高级研究员和 调查人员在某些领域获得了1350万美元的研究资金 与本项目的工作有关。历史悠久的博士后 研究和老年医学培训计划是 职业发展。OAIC将支持两项主要干预措施 研究：生活护理社区妇女的残疾和骨质疏松症 有氧训练与轴心/有氧训练：功能改善；和 干预发展研究：运动、轴向运动与功能 和帕金森氏病患者的轴向活动训练。一个 测量(生物力学、物理、功能和心理社会)和 分析(生物统计学、临床试验和经济学)。研究报告 发展计划将提供有指导的研究经验和 在需要的地方进行说教培训。两名初级教员实习生将 在第一年提供支持，并为试点项目提供资金 可通过竞争性应用程序获得。演示和 传播核心将提供传输新的 关于增强对其他健康的功能的方法的信息 专业人士和公众。

The Duke Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) is organized to promote the development of interventions to increase the independence of older Americans, to support the training of physicians and other health professionals for research careers in the study of such interventions, and to disseminate the findings from such research to other health professionals and the public. The overall theme of our center will be interventions directed towards improvement of dysmobility of the axial skeleton. Functional abilities will be the outcome measures for these interventions. The OAIC will be based in the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, an all-university multi-disciplinary program. It will take advantage of the rich resources of the Duke University Medical Center, the Duke Aging Center, the Durham VA GRECC, the GRTC, and other affiliated programs. Examples of such programs include the Durham VA Health Services Research and Development Program, Clinical Research Center for Depression in the Elderly, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, Behavioral Medicine Program, and Heart Center. This rich milieu includes 96 senior fellows of the Aging Center and investigators with 13.5 million dollars of funded research in areas related to the work of this project. The long-established post-doctoral Research, and Geriatrics Training Programs serve as natural feeders for career development. The OAIC will support two major intervention studies: Disability and Osteoporosis in Life-Care Community Women, and Aerobic vs. Axial/Aerobic Training: Improvement in Function; and two intervention development studies: Exercise, Axial Mobility and Function and Axial Mobility Exercises for Parkinson's Disease Patients. A Measurement (biomechanical, physical, functional and psychosocial) and Analysis (Biostatistical, clinical trials, and economic). The Research Development program will provide mentored research experiences and didactic training where needed. Two junior faculty trainees will be supported in the first year and funding for pilot projects will be made available through competitive applications. A Demonstration and Dissemination Core will provide the capability to transmit new information about methods for enhancing function to other health professionals and the public.