Lis Nielsen, Ph.D. Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) National Institute on Aging NIA/IPSR Workshop: Advancing Integrative Psychological Research on Adaptive and Healthy Aging

APS 2008: Workshop on Entering into Aging Research Related Meetings: NIA Workshop on Neuroeconomics of Aging and Social Neuroscience of Aging NIA/ESRC Meeting on Social Neuroscience of Aging: Bridging Laboratory and Survey Science to Advance Study of Social and Economic Behavior in Aging NIA Workshops on Allostatic Load and Stress, Aging, the Brain and the Body Background

Health Disparities Aging Minds Increasing Health Expectancy Health, Work, and Retirement Interventions and Behavior Change Genetics, Behavior, and the Social Environment The Burden of Illness & the Efficiency of Health Systems NIA/BSR: Areas of Emphasis

Aging from Birth to Death: Life Course Perspectives Biobehavioral Linkages & Collaboration with other NIA Programs Integration and Synthesis: Multi-level Interactions Among Psychological, Physiological, Social & Cultural Levels Development of Improved Methodologies & Measurement Translation & Application of Findings Cross-cutting Principles

2008 BSR Quadrennial Review Alan Garber and John Cacioppo (Co-Chairs) Subcommittees Included: Social Neuroscience & Neuroeconomics Psychology of Aging Behavioral and Population Genetics Behavioral Economics and Community Interventions Health Disparities Cognitive Interventions Sattelites to National Health Accounts: Measuring Time Use, Well- being, Experience of Death ….

Review Recommendations Emphasize integrative science and multilevel analyses Promote studies that adopt a life course perspective Encourage team science and promote new training opportunities Analyses that integrate multiple levels of inquiry, ranging from genes, to biomarkers to neural systems to behaviors, are critical for elucidating pathways linking social behaviors and social environments to age-related outcomes and ultimately, for guiding interventions.

Psychology of Aging Panel Recommendations The most innovative research in psychology crosses traditional subdisciplines within the field –focuses on the ways in which social, emotional, and cognitive factors interact to influence the ways that people live their lives; e.g., how they make decisions, respond to stress, maintain important relationships, regulate strong emotions, and how these efforts affect their physical health. The best research is addressing these issues at multiple levels (from genes to brain systems to behavior) and is blurring the traditional boundaries of cognitive, social, and personality research.

Psychology of Aging Panel Recommendations Needed are: –Studies that help to improve adaptive functioning of individuals in their daily environments and identify causal mechanisms that contribute to their resilience; and –Infrastructure support in the form of center grant support and innovative training mechanisms, including short-term intensive workshops that complement the institutional training awards (T32).

Social Neuroscience & Neuroeconomics Panel Recommendations The effectiveness and role of social relationships, emotion reasoning, and emotional regulation across the lifespan and the influence of social and emotional factors in social behavior, decision making, and health; The way that genetic expression or age-related changes in the central nervous system affect social cognition, emotion, and economic decision making across the lifespan; Better integration of social neuroscience and neuroeconomics with behavioral intervention research to improve understanding of how incentives influence behavior change.

Current Initiatives:IBP Neuroeconomics and decision making Social Neuroscience of Aging Cognitive Interventions Mechanisms of Behavior Change Integrating genetics into behavioral models Psychosocial Stress and Allostatic Load Measuring Well-being Early life determinants of late life outcomes

Bring together researchers who are relatively new to aging with leaders in psychology of aging research and related fields to encourage greater focus on issues of relevance to the NIA Mission Continue and advance dialogues begun at recent meetings Workshop Goals

Encourage consideration of how to advance study of adaptive and healthy aging using integrative approaches bridging psychology and other disciplines Encourage cross-talk between scientists studying social and emotional function, psychological and biological processes in health, and decision making Identify key opportunities and needs for advancing the science in each domain Workshop Goals

Encourage consideration of how to advance study of adaptive and healthy aging using integrative approaches bridging psychology and other disciplines Encourage cross-talk between scientists studying social and emotional function, psychological and biological processes in health, and decision making Identify key opportunities and needs for advancing the science in each domain Workshop Goals

How can this research help to advance study of adaptive and healthy aging, specifically to improve adaptive functioning of individuals in their daily environments and identify causal mechanisms that contribute to their resilience? What are the most immediately viable translation opportunities across domains represented here: (1) studies of social and emotional function; (2) psychological and biological processes in health; (3) decision making and behavior change? What are the next critical challenges your field needs to tackle? Questions for Panels

Advancing study of adaptive and healthy aging? Translation opportunities across domains? Next critical challenges in your field? Questions for Panels