Regional and International Differences in Health and Longevity at Older Ages (R01)

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Purpose. This NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, solicits small-scale Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations proposing to advance knowledge on the reasons behind the divergent trends that have been observed in health and longevity at older ages, both across industrialized/high life expectancy nations and across geographical areas in the United States. This FOA is intended to capitalize on provocative findings in the literature which have gone unexplained to date. This FOA is also intended to capitalize on NIAs investment in the development of cross-nationally comparable datasets that can be harnessed to study these research questions; these include the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA), and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Applications proposing secondary analysis, new data collection, calibration of measures across studies, development of innovative survey measures, and linkages to administrative sources are encouraged. Applications are not restricted to projects using the NIA-supported datasets above and may propose research using any relevant data. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the R01 award mechanism. Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. National Institute on Aging intends to commit $7,500,000 in total costs over the project period for use under this FOA. We anticipate that 3-5 awards will be made for Fiscal Year 2011, pending the number and quality of applications and availability of funds.

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