UCLA-Drew/City of Los Angeles Area Agency on Aging Center for Community Research

加州大学洛杉矶分校德鲁分校/洛杉矶市地区老龄化机构社区研究中心

• 批准号: 8005950
• 负责人: CAROL M MANGIONE
• 金额: $ 99.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8005950
• 关键词: Adoption; Age; Aging; Alzheimer' s Disease; American; Area; Beds; Behavioral Research; Breeding; Caring; Cities; Collaborations; Communities; Community Networks; Development; Elderly; Ensure; Evidence based intervention; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Health; Intervention; Investigation; Leadership; Life; Link; Los Angeles; Low income; Maintenance; Minority; Mission; Modeling; Occupations; Provider; Public Health; Quality of life; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Project Grants; Resources; Science; Scientist; Secure; Services; Societies; Solid; System; Testing; Translating; Trust; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Vision; Work; aged; base; biodemography; community organizations; empowered; evidence base; implementation research; improved; innovation; medical schools; meetings; population health; programs; public health relevance

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For the past 10 years, our UCLA-Drew scientists have worked in partnership with the leadership at the City of Los Angeles Department of Aging on community-based projects aimed at improving the health and quality of life of lower income older adults. With appreciation of our complementary expertise and resources, our academic-community partnership is based in deep mutual respect and a shared vision for implementing and testing practical evidence-based interventions to empower older adults to stay active and healthy. Together we have built strong relationships not only with each other but also with a vast network of community partners, and have collaborated in a bi-directional manner to deploy and evaluate NIH, Administration on Aging (AoA) and privately-funded programs aimed at improving the lives of lower income older adults. We seek support for a UCLA-Drew/City of Los Angeles Department of Aging Center for Community Research for Lower Income Older Adults. Support for this proposed Center would transform our existing collaborations into a permanent infrastructure to maintain a real-world ethnically diverse urban "community empowered tested" for deploying and testing behavioral research among lower income seniors across the largest and most ethnically diverse city in the United States. Programs that are shown to be effective in our "test bed" can be implemented systems-wide into the programming of the City of Los Angeles Dept. of Aging. This proposed Center would serve as a breeding ground for innovation, a model for academic health center/community organization partnership, and a "testing ground" for new programs that the national Administration on Aging could disseminate nationally to meet their mission of disseminating evidence-based models to improve the health and functioning of older adults. With support from an external advisory board of national leaders in aging research and the UCLA and Drew School of Medicine Development Offices, ARRA support for the UCLA/City of LA Center would immediately create new jobs and be leveraged to obtain new resources to ensure the long- term sustainability of the Center. Creation of a solid infrastructure that unites us in the form of the proposed Center would maximize our efficiency and accelerate the pace at which we achieve our shared objective of deploying scientific investigations aimed at improving the lives of lower income older adults. Our 3-year Specific Aims are: 1) to transform our existing collaborations into a permanent infrastructure that will maintain a real-world ethnically diverse urban "community empowered testbed" for translating research findings into practical community-based interventions; 2) to use this infrastructure as a platform to deploy and test innovative research projects with the goal of creating meaningful sustained improvements in the quality of life of lower income older adults; 3) to facilitate the adoption, implementation, and maintenance by the City of Los Angeles Dept. of Aging of empirically-supported community-based programs; 4) to secure resources to ensure the long-term sustainability of the proposed Center. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: By 2030, 20% of Americans will be aged 65 years or greater; clearly it is of tremendous importance to our changing society that we don't give up on seniors but rather identify practical interventions to help older adults meet the Older Americans Act mission of being able to maintain their health and independence. Support for a UCLA-Drew/City of Los Angeles Department of Aging Center for Community Research for Lower Income Older would transform the way community research is conducted by creating a permanent infrastructure that will maintain a real-world ethnically diverse urban "community empowered testbed" for not only deploying and testing behavioral research among lower income seniors across the largest and most ethnically diverse city in the United States, but translating research findings into practical community-based interventions with the goal of creating sustained meaningful improvement in the quality of life of lower income older adults.

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的 10 年里，我们加州大学洛杉矶分校德鲁分校的科学家与洛杉矶市老龄化部门的领导层合作开展旨在改善低收入人群的健康和生活质量的社区项目。收入老年人。凭借我们互补的专业知识和资源，我们的学术界伙伴关系建立在深深的相互尊重和共同愿景的基础上，即实施和测试基于证据的实际干预措施，使老年人保持活跃和健康。我们不仅相互之间建立了牢固的关系，还与庞大的社区合作伙伴网络建立了牢固的关系，并以双向方式合作部署和评估 NIH、老龄化管理局 (AoA) 以及旨在改善健康状况的私人资助项目低收入老年人的生活。我们寻求对加州大学洛杉矶分校德鲁分校/洛杉矶市老龄化部低收入老年人社区研究中心的支持。对这个拟议中心的支持将把我们现有的合作转变为永久性基础设施，以维持现实世界中种族多元化的城市“经过测试的社区赋权”，以便在美国最大、种族最多元化的城市的低收入老年人中部署和测试行为研究。在我们的“试验台”中被证明有效的计划可以在整个系统范围内实施到洛杉矶市老龄化部门的规划中。该拟议中心将作为创新的滋生地、学术健康中心/社区组织伙伴关系的典范以及国家老龄化管理局可以在全国范围内传播的新计划的“试验场”，以实现其传播基于证据的使命。改善老年人健康和功能的模型。在由老龄化研究领域国家领导者组成的外部咨询委员会以及加州大学洛杉矶分校和德鲁医学院发展办公室的支持下，ARRA 对加州大学洛杉矶分校/洛杉矶市中心的支持将立即创造新的就业机会，并利用其获得新的资源，以确保长期- 中心的长期可持续性。创建一个坚实的基础设施，以拟议的中心的形式将我们团结起来，将最大限度地提高我们的效率，并加快我们实现共同目标的步伐，即部署旨在改善低收入老年人生活的科学研究。我们的 3 年具体目标是： 1) 将我们现有的合作转变为永久性基础设施，以维持现实世界中种族多元化的城市“社区赋权测试平台”，以便将研究成果转化为实际的社区干预措施； 2) 使用该基础设施作为部署和测试创新研究项目的平台，其目标是为低收入老年人的生活质量带来有意义的持续改善； 3) 促进洛杉矶市老龄事务部采用、实施和维护基于经验的社区计划； 4) 确保资源以确保拟议中心的长期可持续性。 公共卫生相关性：到 2030 年，20% 的美国人将年龄在 65 岁或以上；显然，对于我们不断变化的社会来说非常重要的是，我们不要放弃老年人，而是确定实际的干预措施，帮助老年人实现《美国老年人法案》的使命，即能够保持他们的健康和独立。对加州大学洛杉矶分校德鲁分校/洛杉矶市老龄化部低收入老年人社区研究中心的支持将通过创建永久性基础设施来改变社区研究的进行方式，该基础设施将维持现实世界中种族多元化的城市“社区赋权测试平台”不仅在美国最大、种族最多元化的城市的低收入老年人中部署和测试行为研究，而且将研究结果转化为基于社区的实际干预措施，目标是持续有意义地改善低收入老年人的生活质量收入老年人。