The goal of the Center for Research on Aging is to enhance excellence in gerontologic research by creating, facilitating, and expanding interdisciplinary research collaborations. As one way to achieve this goal, the Center aims to foster collaborative research using existing research populations, that is, subjects enrolled in ongoing longitudinal studies or data sets from previously completed research studies. For experienced researchers, collaboration involving existing research populations will help to generate new hypotheses and to generate pilot results for new grant applications. For junior researchers, access to research populations and collaboration with experienced investigators will provide opportunities for mentoring that will enhance their ability to present and publish important research findings and to submit competitive grant applications. In the following paragraphs, we briefly describe research populations associated with investigators at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. See list of topics below. (For some of these populations, it may be necessary to obtain approval from the study’s investigators.) We have also included a brief summary of the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) for those who may wish to access public use data sets. This is just a start: we hope to continue the process of identifying and cataloguing research populations and we intend to update this list periodically. If you are interested in learning more about a particular project, call or email the contact person listed in the summary. To discuss these, or other, research ideas, you may also contact Mona Baumgarten at (410) 706-1531, email mbaumgar@epi.umaryland.edu. - Canadian Study of Health and Aging
- Dementia/Alzheimer's Disease
- FDA Adverse Events Reports
- Incontinence
- Long-Term Care
- Medicare/Medicaid Data Files
- Osteoporosis/Hip Fracture
- Prostate Cancer
- Stroke
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