Network Infrastructure Support for Emerging Behavioral and Social Research Areas in Aging (R24)
(PAR-09-233)
National Institute on Aging
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
The purpose of this FOA is to provide infrastructure support in specific
emerging interdisciplinary areas of behavioral and social research in
aging. This FOA will use the NIH
Resource-Related Research Project (R24) mechanism to facilitate research networks to seed the following
integrative and interdisciplinary research areas through meetings, conferences,
small scale pilots, short term training opportunities (such as intensive workshops, summer institutes, or visiting scholar programs) and
dissemination activities to encourage growth and development, so they can
develop to the point where the network activities can be supported through
standard mechanisms (such as research grants, conference grants, program
projects, centers, and/or institutional training grants).
Specific Targeted Emerging Areas Behavioral and Social Science related to
individual and population aging include:
* Neuroeconomics of aging: bridging
economics, psychology, and social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience of
aging;
* Integration of biology and genetics
with behavioral and social sciences related to aging: bridging laboratory and
population-based approaches for incorporating biological with social and
behavioral levels of data collection and analysis;
* Harmonization of cross-national
studies of aging to the Health and Retirement Study;
* Coordination of measurement and analysis of behavioral and
social phenotypes in longitudinal studies of aging: coordination of
measurement, analysis and model development for research on questions related
to interplay between genetics and behavioral and social factors;
* Behavioral economics and behavior
change: with an emphasis on developing areas of relevance to aging, including
health behaviors, end-of-life decisions, savings, etc.
* Social network dynamics related to
aging: consideration of longitudinal data needs and interdisciplinary efforts
to develop theory.
