# Building Trust to Enhance Diversity in Aging Research

> **NIH NIH R24** · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · 2020 · $685,124

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
Aging Research focuses on aging processes, age-related diseases, and special problems and
needs of older adults. Aging Research helps us to understand the nature of aging and how best
to extend the healthy, active years of life. Greater diversity among the populations engaged in
Aging Research studies is essential in order to understand the complex relationships among
health status and age, race, physical functioning (and physical impairment), culture, and
socioeconomic status. The proposed project will foster a community-academic Aging Research
collaborative that promotes trust and develops recruitment and retention methods to increase
the diversity of older adult participants in clinical studies of aging
Achieving greater diversity in clinical research study populations involving older adults is
desirable and feasible, yet comes at a cost. Our proposed study of recruitment methods will
help answer the question, “Can we identify evidenced-based recruitment methods that are both
effective (successfully recruit populations underrepresented in clinical research) and efficient
(provide a reasonable return on investment) in recruiting and retaining underrepresented
populations in clinical studies of aging?” We will accomplish this by building the infrastructure
necessary to support methodological research in partnership with community organizations with
whom we have worked on prior multiyear federal grants, including an R24 from the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ). The project aims are:
Aim 1: Foster a community-academic Aging Research collaborative that promotes trust and
develops recruitment and retention methods to increase the diversity of older adult participants
in clinical studies of aging
Aim 2: Engage diverse older adults, their community-based health care providers, and
investigators in a manner that facilitates bi-directional learning for future Aging Research studies
Aim 2a: Move older adults along the willingness to participate in research continuum
Aim 2b: Enhance the cultural competence of investigators studying aging and by doing so
promote trustworthiness of Aging Research studies by community members
Aim 3: Guided by co-developed ethical principles, facilitate the enrollment of three difficult-to-
recruit subpopulations: older African Americans, older adults with impairments (hearing, vision,
mobility), and those who are homebound into a Registry

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10017820
- **Project number:** 5R24AG063728-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
- **Principal Investigator:** JAY MAGAZINER
- **Activity code:** R24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $685,124
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-15 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10017820

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10017820, Building Trust to Enhance Diversity in Aging Research (5R24AG063728-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10017820. Licensed CC0.

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