Extending Life, Enhancing Life A National Research Agenda on Aging (1991) / Chapter Skim
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7. Review of Resources Committed to Research on Aging
7. Review of Resources Committed to Research on Aging
Pages 119-132
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. In fiscal year 1990, funds committed to the study of basic biomedical aspects of aging were about $442 million, or 5.8 percent of all NIH research funds, with $239 million coming from the National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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Health Care Financing Administration The Health Care Financing Administration jHCFA) is the overseeing federal agency for Medicare and Medicaid, and in fiscal year 1990 it committed approximately $40 million to age-related studies, or about 82 percent of its research budget of $49 million for that year, largely in health services delivery (Office of Research and Demonstrations, HCFA)
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National Institute of General Medical Sciencesb National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke t6.9) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases t3.8 National Eye Institute ~ 13.4 National Institute of Environmental Health $ 222,545 $ 238,927 $323,752 16,531 14,499 15,467 22,240 .
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Foundations Information on foundation support for research on aging was obtained from the Foundation Center's 1989 publication Grants for the Aged and from a computer search of the center's on-line Grants Index. Both sources report information about corporate ant!
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A few states, such as California {through the statewide Academic Geriatric Research and Education Program) provide limited funds to support studies on aging.
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during 1989, encourages medical students and practicing physicians at 10 sites across the United States to specialize in academic geriatrics. Although there are clozens of university centers for the study of aging across the country fincluding biomedical, behavioral and social, and health services clelivery programs)
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. cognitive c elicits Study of Parkinson's disease; Alzheimer's disease Endocrinology; metabolism; age-related changes in cognition; approaches to health delivery; depression Metabolism; endocrinology; nutrition; oral health and dentistry Age-related changes in behavior and neuroendocrine function, and their relationship to health services Endocrinology; memory; health services delivery General basic and clinical oncology; hypertension; gastroenterology; infectious disease; nephrology Basic science and clinical study of immunology; osteoporosis; evaluation of health care SOURCE: DVA Department of Medicine and Surgery.
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. The total file increased by 9 percent cluring this interval, resulting in an absolute increase in published studies on aging of 70 percent.
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Until recently, as the ISI findings indicated, aging studies not reported in publications clearly identified as focused on aging have tended to appear in professional journals devoted to behavioral and social science or to health services delivery research, with few reports appearing in medical and other scientific publications. That this trend has changed is illustrated, if not proven, by the increase between 1983 and 1987 in age-related studies reported in the selected medical and scientific journals shown in Table 7-4.
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In 1987 the Institute of Medicine reported that only 100 geriatric fellows were graduating per year from hospital-basec3 meclical school programs. The report estimated that to meet requirements for an estimated 2,100 faculty by the year 2000 to train future clinicians and biomedical students of aging, the number of graduating fellows
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Balancing this estimate of the small number of researchers engaged in studies of aging is the observation that 15,047 authors were listed in geriatric ant! gerontological publications fincluding behavioral and health services research studies)
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health services delivery were inadequate to provide adequate training for health care personnel to meet the medical and nonmedical needs of older persons jNIA, 1988~. In fiscal year 1990 the tota]
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Who, why and when? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 38:483-488.
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