Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案为密歇根大学P30老龄化人口统计中心申请续期资金。凭借密歇根大学在社会科学研究方面的优势，以及我们现有的NIA P30老龄化中心资助的帮助，密歇根大学已经成为老龄化人口和经济学研究的领导者。在过去的五年中，我们增加了新的专门从事老龄化研究的初级和高级教师，并大大扩展了我们现有教师的老龄化研究组合。作为老龄化研究的主要纵向调查的发源地，以及大量使用这些调查的分析项目，随着国际老龄化研究的大量发展，老龄化研究已成为校园社会科学核心单位关注的主要焦点。我们相信，这项拟议的P30中心资助将导致密歇根大学在老龄化研究方面取得更大的进展，并将使我们能够协助国内和国际老龄化研究的发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests renewal funding for a P30 Center on the Demography of Aging at the University of Michigan. Building on Michigan's strengths in social science research, and aided by our existing NIA P30 aging center grant, the University of Michigan has become a leader in research on the demography and economics of aging. In the past five years we have added new junior and senior faculty specializing in aging research and have greatly expanded the portfolio of aging research among our existing faculty. As the home of major longitudinal surveys used for research on aging, along with numerous analytical projects using those surveys, and with the development of a large body of international aging research, research on aging has become a major focus of attention in core social science units on campus. We are confident that this proposed P30 center grant will lead to even greater advances in aging research at Michigan, and will allow us to assist in the development of aging research nationally and internationally. The Michigan Center will focus on the following scientific themes and approaches: health, work and retirement; trends in chronic disease and disability; living arrangements of the elderly; race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; demography and economics of specific diseases. In pursuing these themes, we are requesting support under Cores, as defined in the RFA. Some of the major activities are as follows. Cores: administrative and research support core built around the Director, Co-Director, Advisory Committee, administrative support staff, a computing specialist, and a data management specialist; new program development, including pilot projects and support for faculty development through both recruitment and the expansion of aging activity among existing faculty; innovative external networks including international networks and a disability network focusing on the U.S; outreach and dissemination activities including web site, publications, workshops, and a comparative international data resource; techniques for analysis of restricted data, including operation of a statistical data enclave; and services of Coordinating Center, including maintaining an all-centers' web site, developing an electronic newsletter, and organizing meetings and reports for the program as a whole.