Economics and Demography of Aging Training

申请者描述(由申请者提供)：本申请请求支持加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)加州人口研究中心的老龄化经济学、社会人口学和生物人口学培训计划。为6名博士前实习生申请资金。该计划将支持学员寻求进行跨部门的跨学科培训，并学习不同学科的工具和方法。虽然我们预计学员将主要来自经济学、社会学和社区卫生科学，但该项目也将向来自其他领域的学员开放。通过支持研讨会、研讨会、跨学科团队授课课程以及技术和实质性知识的公共基础设施，该计划将产生更广泛的影响，帮助支持更多对老龄化研究问题感兴趣的学生和学者。对博士前学生的具体培训将包括一门关于经济学、社会人口学和老龄化生物人口学的团队授课课程，教师来自社区卫生服务、经济学、老年医学和社会学。培训还将包括参加老龄问题研讨会，有国家和地方发言者参加。在本地讲者中，来自医学院的教员将讨论一些医学研究的最新发展。最后，培训还将包括人口培训研讨会、人口统计培训、老年医学或医学课程、研究学徒、参加部门讨论会和讲习班，以及每年至少参加一次专业会议。 公共卫生相关性：人口老龄化和社会保障面临的财政危机，对老龄化的生物、经济和社会决定因素进行了研究，这是理解老龄化中各种政策问题的关键，包括社会关系和家庭的作用、退休决策的决定因素、健康差距、老年人的支持服务和护理，以及寿命的决定因素。拟议的培训计划将使研究人员具备为这一努力做出贡献所需的技能。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for a training program in the economics, social demography, and biodemography of aging at the California Center for Population Research at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA). Funding is requested for 6 predoctoral trainees. The program will support trainees seeking to undertake interdisciplinary training across departments and to learn the tools and approaches of different disciplines. Although we expect the trainees to be drawn largely from Economics, Sociology, and Community Health Sciences, the program will be open to trainees from other fields as well. By supporting an infrastructure of seminars, workshops, an interdisciplinary team-taught course, and a common base of technical and substantive knowledge, the program will have a broader impact by helping to support a larger community of students and scholars interested in aging research issues. The specific training required of predoctoral students will include a team-taught interdisciplinary course on the economics, social demography, and biodemography of aging, with faculty drawn from Community Health Services, Economics, Geriatrics, and Sociology. The training will also consist of participation in an aging seminar, with both national and local speakers. Among the local speakers, faculty from the School of Medicine will discuss some of the latest developments in medical research. Finally, the training will also include a population training seminar, demographic training, a class on geriatrics or medicine, a research apprenticeship, participation in department colloquia and workshops, and attendance at least one professional meeting per year. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Population aging and the fiscal crisis faced by Social Security that have made research on the biological, economic, and social determinants of aging key to understanding a wide variety of policy issues in aging, including the role of social relationships and the family, determinants of retirement decisions, health disparities, supportive services and caregiving for the elderly, and determinants of length of life. The proposed training program will prepare researchers with the skills they need to contribute to this effort.