This Research and Development Center (P30) program is designed primarily to support the infrastructure and pilot data necessary for research and program development by a number of investigators within an institution, and/or across domestic and international institutions, in the areas of demography and economics of aging. Additional objectives are to support: the development of innovative national and international networks of researchers; the recruitment of new researchers into demography and economics of aging; the development and enhanced sharing of relevant databases; the rapid application of research results from these databases; and the development of statistical data enclaves and data sharing methods for the analysis of large-scale, often-longitudinal, databases with linked admnistrative, biological and/or genetic information.
Center applications must select research theme(s) and topic areas of focus which may, as relevant, be advanced by collaborations, data sharing and interdisciplinary interactions with related scientific fields such as psychology, anthropology, biology, genetics, neuroscience, epidmiology, behavioral economics, and public health. Such interdisciplinary collaborations must be designed to advance demographic and economic population-based research. Comparative international research is encouraged.
Applicants are encouraged to collaborate with other Demography and Economics of Aging Centers as well as other NIA-funded Centers programs such as the ROYBAL Centers for Translational Research on Aging, the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research, and the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging. More information on these Centers programs is available at http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dbsr
Center grant applications must include two required cores: A) Administrative and Research Support Core and B) Program Development (Pilot) Core, and may choose among four optional cores: C) External Innovative Network Core, D) External Research Resources Support and Dissemination Core, E) Statistical Data Enclave Core, and F) Coordinating Center Function.
To achieve the objectives listed above, each Center should promote a sustained research and infrastructure development program in one or more broad thematic areas, which should be stated in the application and around which the goals, Specific Aims and topic areas of the Center and of the Center Cores should be designed. Illustrative topic areas include but are not limited to the following. Projects that examine differentials by sex and race/ethnicity are especially encouraged.
- Development of new conceptual frameworks for understanding the causes of observed health disparities at older ages.
- Integration of genetic data into social science models.
- Gene by environment interaction where social environments may modify genetic risk, or genetic factors may modify responses to the social environment.
- Combining demographic and life-science approaches for expanding the current understanding of aging/senescence, frailty and mortality.
- How family and social relationships affect population-level processes relevant to aging.
- Population-level trends in chronic disease, disability and life expectancy.
- The relationship between healthcare spending and health status.
- The direct and indirect economic costs of Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias.
- Effects of economic shocks and trends on work, savings, family relationships and health.
- The economic impact of population aging, including effects on both microeconomic decision-making and the macroeconomy.
- Relationship between age and productivity in the labor market.
- Labor force participation and time-use of the older population.
- Intergenerational transfers of time and money and the economics of the family in an aging context.
- Descriptive demographic analysis of important population phenomena that will provide insight into population dynamics.
- Causes of geographic differences in health and longevity at older ages within the United States and around the world.
- How psychological and cognitive phenotypes impact physical health and socioeconomic outcomes of older persons at the population level.
- Early life and life course determinants of health, well-being, work, economic status, cognition, morbidity, and mortality outcomes later in life.
- HIV/AIDS and aging.
- Cross-national analyses on the topics listed above using NIA supported longitudinal aging data resources
Letter of Intent Due Date: August 26, 2013
Application Due Date: September 26, 2013
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