老龄化健康中心作为研究创新中心重新启动 | 埃默里大学护理学院

        The Emory Center for Health in Aging is relaunching with a renewed mission to promote the health and well-being of older adults. The center will serve as a central hub for innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration across the Emory community, focused on strengthening physical, psychological, social and spiritual health.

By 2050, Atlanta will boast more than one million citizens over the age of 75. As the most comprehensive academic health care system in Georgia, Emory will play a critical role in meeting the demands of this aging population.

The Center for Health in Aging seeks to build the capacity of Emory and its partners to discover, design, implement and test programs and interventions that promote the health and personal growth of older adults. Under the new directorship of Camille Vaughan, MD, MS, key goals of the center include:  

• Understanding interactions between multiple chronic conditions and innovating management strategies.

• Piloting interventions focused on navigating the health care system and promoting age-friendly health care.

• Optimizing self-determination, including at the end of life.

• Promoting mastery in caregiving in a variety of conditions and settings of care.

• Addressing turbulence management through strategies to manage unexpected changes in health status or independence.

• Nurturing spiritual well-being, creativity and civic engagement.

“We are excited to reintroduce the Center for Health in Aging to the Emory community,” says Vaughan. “Atlanta is a vibrant        economic and cultural center poised to lead the development of a new and highly diverse civil society. Funding from the Woodruff Health Sciences Center will catalyze the creative engagement of the Emory community to address novel questions focused on the health and well-being of older adults in the Atlanta region.”

Vaughan is an associate professor and director of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Emory University Department of Medicine. Her clinical practice is based at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, the Emory Clinic at Decatur and the Emory Parkinson’s Disease Comprehensive Care Clinic. 

Ken Hepburn, PhD, will serve as senior associate director for research. He is a professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and co-director of the Emory Roybal Center for Dementia Caregiving Mastery. 

A key component of the relaunched center will be the research of its pilot program awardees. Four cross-disciplinary proposals from across Emory University have been awarded up to $45,000 each for projects related to health in aging.

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       埃默里老年健康中心正在重新启动，其使命是促进老年人的健康和福祉。该中心将作为整个埃默里社区的创新和跨学科合作的中心枢纽，专注于加强身体、心理、社会和精神健康。

       到 2050 年，亚特兰大将拥有超过 100 万 75 岁以上的公民。作为乔治亚州最全面的学术医疗保健系统，埃默里大学将在满足这一人口老龄化的需求方面发挥关键作用。

       老龄健康中心旨在培养埃默里大学及其合作伙伴的能力，以发现、设计、实施和测试促进老年人健康和个人成长的计划和干预措施。在Camille Vaughan医学博士、硕士的新领导下，该中心的主要目标包括：  

       了解多种慢性病之间的相互作用并创新管理策略。试点干预措施的重点是引导医疗保健系统和促进对老年人友好的医疗保健。优化自决，包括在生命的尽头。促进在各种护理条件和环境下对护理的掌握。通过管理健康状况或独立性的意外变化的策略来解决湍流管理。

       培养精神健康、创造力和公民参与。

     “我们很高兴将老年健康中心重新引入埃默里社区，”沃恩说。“亚特兰大是一个充满活力的经济和文化中心，有望引领一个高度多样化的新型公民社会的发展。伍德拉夫健康科学中心的资金将促进埃默里社区的创造性参与，以解决关注亚特兰大地区老年人健康和福祉的新问题。”

       沃恩是埃默里大学医学系老年病学和老年病学部的副教授兼主任。她的临床实践基于亚特兰大退伍军人医疗中心、迪凯特埃默里诊所和埃默里帕金森病综合护理诊所。 

       Ken Hepburn博士将担任研究高级副主任。他是Nell Hodgson Woodruff 护理学院的教授，也是Emory Roybal 痴呆症护理掌握中心的联合主任。 

       重新启动的中心的一个关键组成部分将是对其试点项目获奖者的研究。来自埃默里大学的四项跨学科提案已获得高达 45,000 美元的奖金，用于与老龄化健康相关的项目。

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