Pepper OAIC Coordinating Center

老年美国人独立中心(OAIC)协调中心(CC)计划、启动、 促进和协调最大限度地促进OAIC协作的活动。我们的指导思想是专注于 承诺影响很大，但个别OAIC难以单独实现的活动，以及 导致合作，释放协同效应，从而使整个(OAIC计划)比其 各部分(个别中心和调查人员)。我们的初步数据显示，目前的周期是 到目前为止最成功和最有成效的。拟议的新周期将在这些基础上发展和扩展。 在以下四个具体目标中嵌入倡议的成就，这些目标由我们的 初步数据，包括我们的评估过程和我们对三个关键群体的结构化访谈 利益相关者：所有15家OAIC的董事，一个由早期职业调查人员组成的小组，以及NIA项目官员。 具体目标1.加强伊斯兰会议组织方案内和与更大的 老龄化研究社区。具体目标2.促进和促进以OAIC为主题的合作研究。 具体目标3.促进下一代老龄研究人员的发展。具体目标4. 加快将OAIC关键研究成果落实到成员医疗保健系统及其 社区。我们将通过以下方式实现这些目标：1)我们17年的经验和在 逐步建立协作；2)扩大、多学科、有凝聚力的多机构团队 经验丰富的领导者，具有互补的技能和明确的角色；3)我们完善的流程， 包括四个工作组和纳入主要利益攸关方；4)审查办的定期投入和指导 董事委员会和NIA计划官员；以及5)持续评估实现每个目标和 该计划的总体目标。这一拟议的CC续展将进一步增加 OAIC合作，提供重要的新研究机会，特别是对于职业生涯早期的研究人员，促进 新调查人员的职业发展，并传播OAIC的关键研究成果，以改善 老年美国人的医疗保健。

The Coordinating Center (CC) for the Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC) Program plans, initiates, facilitates, and coordinates activities that maximize OAIC collaborations. Our guiding philosophy is to focus on activities that promise high impact but would be difficult for individual OAICs to achieve on their own, and which result in collaborations that unlock synergy, thereby making the whole (the OAIC program) greater than its parts (the individual centers and investigators). Our preliminary data show that the present cycle has been the most successful and productive to date. The proposed new cycle will build on and extend these accomplishments with initiatives embedded in the following four Specific Aims, which were informed by our preliminary data, including our evaluation processes and our structured interviews with three key groups of stakeholders: directors of all 15 OAICs, a panel of early career investigators, and NIA program officials. Specific Aim 1. Enhance communications and coordination within the OAIC program and with the greater aging research community. Specific Aim 2. Facilitate and promote OAIC-themed collaborative research. Specific Aim 3. Enhance the development of the next generation of researchers in aging. Specific Aim 4. Accelerate implementation of key OAIC research findings into member health care systems and their communities. We will achieve these aims by capitalizing on: 1) our 17 years of experience and earned trust in progressively building collaborations; 2) an expanded, multi-disciplinary, cohesive, multi-institutional team of experienced leaders with complementary skills and well-defined roles; 3) our well established processes, including four working groups and inclusion of key stakeholders; 4) regular input and guidance from the OAIC Directors Committee and NIA program officials; and 5) continously evaluating progress toward each aim and overall goals of the program. This proposed renewal of the CC will further increase the breadth and depth of OAIC collaboration, provide vital new research opportunities, particularly for early career investigators, promote career development of new investigators, and disseminate key OAIC research findings to improve the healthcare of older Americans.