Program for Aging Research in the Summer (PARIS)

夏季老龄化研究计划（巴黎）

• 批准号: 10624835
• 负责人: Wendy B Bollag
• 金额: $ 8.09万
• 依托单位: AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10624835
• 关键词: Acute Disease; Age; Aging; American; Caring; Censuses; Chronic Disease; Clinic; Clinical; Disease; Geriatrics; Geroscience; Goals; Health; Health Sciences; Housing; Individual; Long-Term Care for Elderly; Medical Students; Medicine; Mentors; National Institute on Aging; Older Population; Outcome; Persons; Physicians; Population; Principal Investigator; Process; Program Description; Puerto Rican; Reporting; Research; Research Methodology; Risk Factors; Scientist; Students; Training; Transportation; Underrepresented Minority; United States; Universities; age related; aged; career; interest; medical schools; member; minority engagement; programs; statistics; success

Worldwide there are about 617 million people aged 65 or older, and this population continues to increase at an unparalleled rate. According to a report from the United States Census Bureau and commissioned by the National Institute on Aging, the current global population of older individuals of 8.5% is expected to surge to approximately 1.6 billion people, or almost 17% of the world's population, by 2050. The 65-and-over population of the United States is predicted to nearly double over the next three decades, from 48 million to 88 million Although it is well known that age is a risk factor for a variety of acute and chronic disorders, the mechanisms underlying aging, and the best way to minimize the effects of this process on health, are not well understood. Therefore, research into the mechanisms of the aging process and treatment of age-related diseases is critical. In addition, as the American population continues to age, there will be a growing need for physicians trained to care for the elderly and diseases related to aging. Finally, there continues to be a gap in the number of under-represented minorities trained as physicians and physician-scientists. The proposed program will address these issues by providing under-represented minority medical students with the opportunity to participate in aging research and to observe geriatricians in the clinic, with the idea of promoting a sustained interest in this field of medicine and research. The Program for Aging Research in the Summer, or PARIS, will build upon the success of a pilot program initiated as part of the Co-Principal Investigator's P01 Project, which for the past three years has arranged transportation, housing and research mentors for three students from the Puerto Rican medical school, Universidad Central del Caribe (UCC), to pursue aging research with one of the members of the Program Project. This program has gradually received positive publicity from the students, such that this past application period the number of applicants to the program far exceeded the number of slots available. Therefore, in the program described in this application we are proposing to increase the number of slots in the program, as well as to extend the opportunity to participate to medical students from other Puerto Rican medical schools, including Ponce Health Sciences University and San Juan Bautista School of Medicine. The goals of this program are to: (I) organize the participation of under-represented minority medical students in aging research at Augusta University, (II) develop didactic training in research methods and statistics for PARIS trainees, (III) organize a clinical observership for PARIS trainees with physicians caring for older individuals and (IV) establish a mechanism to sustain trainees' interest in aging research and track trainee outcomes. With this program we hope to encourage under-represented minority engagement in careers in geroscience and geriatrics.

全球约有 6.17 亿人年龄在 65 岁或以上，并且这一人口还在以前所未有的速度增长。根据美国人口普查局和国家老龄化研究所委托发布的一份报告，目前全球老年人口占 8.5%，预计到 2050 年将激增至约 16 亿人，几乎占世界人口的 17%预计未来三十年美国 65 岁及以上人口将增加近一倍，从 4800 万增至 8800 万，尽管众所周知，年龄是多种疾病的危险因素。急性和慢性疾病的发病机制、衰老的机制以及最大限度地减少这一过程对健康影响的最佳方法尚不清楚。因此，研究衰老过程的机制和与年龄相关的疾病的治疗至关重要。此外，随着美国人口持续老龄化，对接受过培训来护理老年人和与衰老相关的疾病的医生的需求将越来越大。最后，接受过医生和医学科学家培训的少数族裔人数仍然存在差距。拟议的计划将通过为代表性不足的少数族裔医学生提供参与老龄化研究和在诊所观察老年科医生的机会来解决这些问题，其目的是促进人们对这一医学和研究领域的持续兴趣。夏季老龄化研究计划（简称 PARIS）将建立在作为联合首席研究员 P01 项目一部分启动的试点计划的成功基础上，该计划在过去三年中为三名学生安排了交通、住宿和研究导师来自波多黎各医学院、加勒比中央大学 (UCC) 的博士生，与该计划项目的一名成员一起进行衰老研究。该项目逐渐受到学生的积极宣传，在过去的申请期内，该项目的申请人数远远超过了可用名额。因此，在本申请中描述的计划中，我们建议增加该计划的名额数量，并扩大来自其他波多黎各医学院（包括庞塞健康科学大学和圣胡安包蒂斯塔）的医学生参与的机会医学院。该计划的目标是：(I) 组织代表性不足的少数族裔医学生参与奥古斯塔大学的衰老研究，(II) 为巴黎学员开展研究方法和统计方面的教学培训，(III) 组织临床观察为巴黎受训者提供护理老年人的医生服务，以及 (IV) 建立一种机制来维持受训者对老龄化研究的兴趣并跟踪受训者的成果。通过这个计划，我们希望鼓励代表性不足的少数族裔参与老年科学和老年病学的职业。