# Emerging Issues in Minority Aging Research

> **NIH NIH R13** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · 2022 · $50,000

## Abstract

Emerging Issues in Minority Aging Research will create five different one-day conferences on current NIA
priority areas relevant to minority aging research. The conference series goal is to increase the quality,
quantity, and relevance to communities of color of NIA-fundable research by providing both junior and
senior researchers with new knowledge and greater interest in these emerging issues as applied to minority
elderly. This is significant because the U.S. racial and ethnic minority older population is growing rapidly:
minorities will increase from 25% to over 40% of the older population between 2020 and 2050. Protecting
and improving the health of these elderly requires a highly skilled research workforce with interests and
capabilities to produce new and useful knowledge. Yet the number and success of minority researchers
funded by NIH is insufficient. The NIA's Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) program
works to mentor and train junior faculty who conduct research on minority aging to strengthen the next
generation of NIA-funded ethnic and racial minority research and researchers. Conferences topics are:
Recruitment and retention of elders of color; Access to care & improved outcomes for cognitively impaired
minority elderly; Applying the science of behavior change to intervention development for elders of color;
Pragmatic intervention trials with minority elders; and Using biological measures of risk in health
disparities research with older adults. Each will feature leading scholars on the topic, top scholars on
minority aging, and representatives from multiple NIA-funded centers and networks. The programs will
disseminate the state of the art on the topic, inform researchers on how existing research can be modified
or expanded to be more valid and relevant for minority elders, and provide resources that can be used by
researchers to further develop the fields in research with minority elders. They will be held as
preconferences to the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) annual scientific meetings with an average
of 50 participants each; the majority will be minorities and/or women. The planning committee will be
compromised of the confirmed keynote speakers who are leaders in the field and researchers from RCMAR
sites with expertise in the topic. The executive committee will be the RCMAR directors group. The project
is innovative in the topics covered, the research networks involved, and the synergy with GSA. Program
evaluation includes a process evaluation, a retrospective pre/post knowledge and confidence survey, and
four-month follow-up survey on conference impacts. The lead investigators are national leaders in minority
and aging research who have successfully led previous GSA preconferences. This proposal is a renewal of
the previous successful series with new topics but similar objectives of improving the knowledge and
interest in emerging issues supported by NIA among those with research agendas in minorit...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10461802
- **Project number:** 5R13AG023033-19
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
- **Principal Investigator:** Lourdes Guerrero
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $50,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-15 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10461802

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10461802, Emerging Issues in Minority Aging Research (5R13AG023033-19). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10461802. Licensed CC0.

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