Aging and Informatics Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：随着人们寿命的延长，多种慢性病增加了利用卫生保健服务的需求，我们的卫生保健系统正面临着几个挑战。65岁或以上人口的显著增加将给现有的护理系统带来压力，因为老年人目前消耗了美国所有卫生保健资源的30%，除非采取新的方法，否则到2030年这一比例将增加到50%。随着我们的医疗保健系统在有限的资源和有据可查的劳动力短缺中苦苦挣扎，我们被要求设计创新的方法，以应对这一前所未有的人口结构变化，并将提高老年人及其家人的生活质量，帮助他们保持健康和保持功能，防止跌倒和不良事件，促进疾病和症状的管理，并促进临终时的缓解和尊严。所有这些目标不仅要求提高我们目前的护理实践的效率，而且还要求 支持老龄化的新方法和战略，包括信息学工具和系统。华盛顿大学护理学院在建立学术老年护理能力以及信息学研究和教育方面有着悠久的历史。我们的目标是通过将信息学工具和跨学科教育方法整合到我们老化的教育和研究培训中来扩大这一能力。拟议的老龄化和信息学培训计划(AITP)的具体目标是招聘和保留一支合格的多样化的博士后和博士后研究员队伍，提供利用信息学进行老年学研究所需的基本理论、方法和技能的跨学科教学研究培训，促进受训者通过持续的老龄化和信息学研究经验发展研究专长的能力，指导所有受训者进行研究的伦理行为，特别是在不同的弱势群体中，并认识到技术在老年学中的伦理影响。我们计划持续评估培训计划的结构、流程和结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our health care system is facing several challenges as people are living longer, with multiple chronic conditions that increase the need to utilize health care services. The significant increase of the segment of the population aged 65 or older will strain existing care systems, as older adults currently consume 30% of all health care resources in the United States and this will increase to 50% by 2030 unless new approaches are adopted. As our health care system struggles with limited resources and a well-documented workforce shortage, we are called upon to design innovative approaches that will address this unprecedented demographic shift and will improve quality of life for older adults and their families, help them remain healthy and preserve function, prevent falls and adverse events, facilitate disease and symptom management, and promote palliation and dignity at the end of life. All these goals require not only increased efficiency in our current care practices, but also new approaches and strategies to support aging including informatics tools and systems. The University of Washington School of Nursing has a long history in building academic gerontologic nursing capacity and in informatics research and education. Our goal is to expand this capacity by integrating informatics tools and interdisciplinary educational approaches into our aging educational and research training. The specific aims for the proposed Aging and Informatics Training Program (AITP) are to recruit and retain a qualified diverse cadre of pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows, to provide interdisciplinary didactic research training in the fundamental theories, methods, and skills necessary to conduct gerontological research using informatics, to facilitate the ability of trainees to develop research expertise through ongoing research experience in aging and informatics, to mentor all trainees in the ethical conduct of research, especially in diverse vulnerable populations, and recognize the ethical implications of technology use in gerontology. We plan to evaluate the training program structures, processes, and outcomes on an ongoing basis.