Comparative effectiveness in older cancer patients: age versus health status

描述(由申请者提供)：“将于2010年11月19日至23日在新奥尔良举行的美国老年学会2010年年度科学会议中纳入三个以衰老和癌症为主题的比较有效性会议，每个会议90分钟。”一名共同主席将主持所有三届会议，以确保各届会议具有相同的背景和主题。“每期课程将有3名教师，他们将专注于具体的演讲，另外还有一名讨论者将主持小组讨论，并让与会者参与互动和参与。”与会者将在会议之前收集基线信息，这些信息将作为评估过程的一部分。“每堂课都将围绕案例情景展开。观众对这些情景的基本反应将被记录下来。随着案例情景的演变以及教师提供信息和教育材料，将鼓励观众重新审视他们之前的反应。这一过程将允许对这些课程进行评估。研究战略中附了一个不断发展的案例作为例子。”每一次课程都将被录制下来，用于制作网络研讨会，以便在会议之外接触到观众。 公共卫生相关性：美国老年学会(GSA)成立于1945年，是历史最悠久、规模最大的国际跨学科科学组织，致力于推进老年学研究和老龄教育。GSA的一个关键目标是鼓励在科学家、决策者和实践者中传播老龄化研究成果。GSA成员和与会者代表了来自全球生物科学、护理、医学、社会工作、经济学、政策、心理学和其他社会科学领域的广泛专业人士，来自40多个国家的个人参加了会议。GSA有超过35个正式和非正式的利益集团，它们围绕着一个跨学科的主题或问题而形成。利益集团在GSA年度科学会议上开会，并为成员和非成员提供联网、研究项目合作和更多参与会议计划的机会。癌症和老龄化研究非正式兴趣小组由密歇根州立大学博士比尔·吉文和康涅狄格大学人类发展和家庭研究博士基思·M·贝利齐领导。GSA的起源始于20世纪30年代末的S，当时一群医生和科学家在伍兹霍尔举行了一系列会议，最终成立了“老龄化研究俱乐部”。从一开始，社会的基调就是多学科的，基础科学研究高度突出。即使在1954年，奥利·兰德尔在她的总统演讲中也谈到，“不同学科的人越来越有必要走到一起，相互充实，互惠互利。”在20世纪60年代，S在1974年国家老龄研究所的成立中发挥了重要作用；这一开创性的事件最终确保了老龄研究的资金流。GSA第63届年度科学会议将于2010年11月19日至23日在洛杉矶新奥尔良举行，会议的主题是“整个老龄化过程中的护理过渡”。会议将允许与会者探索老年人在其一生中经历的重大转变所涉及的情况。这些变化包括健康和保健转型、社会转型、财务转型、心理转型等等。这次会议汇聚了3500多位老龄化领域最聪明的人才，他们参加了400多个多学科的科学会议，包括研讨会、论文和海报演示，展示了最新的老龄化研究，以改善老年人的生活。会议讨论的老龄化研究的范围包括以下主题：辅助生活环境中居民与照顾者关系的研究、维生素D对肌肉成分的影响、对抗阿尔茨海默氏症的干细胞疗法的开发，以及这项提案的重点-老年癌症患者的比较有效性研究。2010年大会的举办地将是洛杉矶新奥尔良河滨的希尔顿酒店。整个GSA会议将从11月19日持续到23日。所有与会者都有资格出席三届会议的任何部分，出席会议以外的与会者将有资格参加从这些会议发展而来的网络研讨会发言。本提案中描述的会议和网络研讨会由国际老年肿瘤学会(SIOG)和美国老年医学学会(AGS)共同主办。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): "Three comparative effectiveness sessions focused on aging and cancer, 90 minutes each, will be incorporated into the 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America that will take place in New Orleans from Nov 19-23, 2010." A common chair will preside over all 3 session to ensure the sessions have the same context and themes. "Each session will have 3 faculty who will focus on specific talks in addition to a discussant who will moderate the panel discussion and engage the attendees to interact and participate." Attendees will have baseline information collected prior to the session that will be used as part of the evaluation process. "Each session will be based around case scenarios. Baseline audience response to the scenarios will be captured. As the case scenarios evolve and the faculty present information and educational material, the audience will be encouraged to revisit their prior responses. This process will allow for the evaluation of these sessions. An evolving case has been attached in the Research Strategy as an example. "Each session will be recorded for the production of webinars to reach audiences beyond the conference. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) was founded in 1945 and is the oldest and largest international interdisciplinary scientific organization devoted to the advancement of gerontological research and education in aging. A key goal of the GSA is to encourage the dissemination of aging research findings among scientists, decision makers, and practitioners. GSA members and meeting attendees represent a broad spectrum of professionals from the fields of biological sciences, nursing, medicine, social work, economics, policy, psychology, and other social sciences on a global scale, with individuals coming to the meeting from more than 40 countries. GSA has over 35 formal and informal interest groups that are formed around a topic or issue that cuts across disciplines. Interest groups meet at the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting and provide opportunities for networking, collaboration on research projects, and increased involvement for members and non-members in the conference program. The Research on Cancer and Aging informal interest group is led by Bill Given, PhD, Michigan State University, and Keith M. Bellizzi, PhD, University of Connecticut, Human Development and Family Studies. The origins of the GSA began in the late 1930's with a group of physicians and scientists undertaking a series of meetings at Woods Hole eventually forming the "Club for Research on Ageing." From the beginning the tone of the society was multidisciplinary and basic scientific research was highly prominent. Even in 1954, in her Presidential address, Ollie Randall talked about "the growing necessity for people of different disciplines to be brought together for the mutual benefit of the enrichment of each." During the 1960's the GSA was influential in the formation of the National Institute on Aging in 1974; a seminal event that eventually ensured a funding stream for research in aging. GSA's 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA, November 19-23, 2010, with the theme of "Transitions of Care Across the Aging Continuum." The conference will allow attendees to explore the circumstances that surround significant transitions that older adults experience over their life course. These include health and health care transitions, social transitions, financial transitions, psychological transitions, and more. This meeting brings together more than 3,500 of the brightest minds in the field of aging who participate in over 400 multidisciplinary scientific sessions including symposia, paper, and poster presentations featuring the newest aging research to improve the lives of older adults. Examples of the range of aging research addressed at the meeting include topics such as studies of residents' relationships with caregivers in assisted living settings, the effects of vitamin D on muscle composition, development of stem cell therapies to combat Alzheimer's disease, and, the focus of this proposal, comparative effectiveness research in older cancer patients. The site of the 2010 conference will be the Hilton, New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, LA. The entire GSA meeting will run from November 19th to the 23rd. All participants will be eligible to attend any part of the three sessions and participants beyond those attending the meeting will be eligible to attend the webinar presentations developed from these sessions. The sessions and webinars described in this proposal are co-sponsored by the International Society of Geriatric-Oncology (SIOG) and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS).