The National Health Institute (NIH) has awarded Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and The American University of Beirut (AUB) Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine a five-year grant for the Late Life Lincomes (LLL), Cognition and Aging (3LC) examine. Led by an interdisciplinary group at each establishments, 3LC is an revolutionary analysis venture that goals to uncover the potential position of selling more healthy growing older and delaying cognitive decline amongst older adults in Lebanon.
The examine, which is able to initially run over the subsequent 5 years, goals to construct analysis and infrastructure capacities to delineate alternatives for dementia prevention in Lebanon and the area.”
Dr. Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, Multiple Principal Investigator (PI) at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
“The examine affords a singular platform to handle thrilling, revolutionary and well timed analysis questions. The final goal is to enhance our understanding of the determinants of energetic and wholesome growing older, and inform future investments and the design of LLL packages, offering insights for different populations in equally low-resource settings worldwide.” Zeki Al Hazzouri is assistant professor in Columbia’s Department of Epidemiology and the Columbia Butler Aging Center.
“Lebanon has the biggest proportion of older adults within the Arab area, and Lebanese older adults are uncovered to a bunch of life course psychosocial adversities, together with the current financial meltdown, which makes it a very vital and related setting to undertake such a examine,” in accordance with Dr. Martine Elbejjani, Multiple-PI from the Faculty of Medicine at AUB.
“At the identical time, older folks of immediately are usually more healthy and dwelling longer than their mother and father and lots of aspire to stay energetic of their previous age”, says Dr. Abla Mehio Sibai, co-founding director of the University for Seniors (UfS) program at AUB and Multiple-PI on the 3LC examine. Opportunities that present enriching mental and social experiences are uncommon within the area. “This venture will capitalize on the distinctive and well-established LLL program, the AUB UfS, to conduct a proper program analysis and consider the affect of casual training in older age on cognitive, bodily and social well being”.
Other Columbia Investigators [ZAHA1] concerned with the venture embrace Drs. Jennifer Manly from Neurology, Sebastian Calonico from Health Policy and Management, and Linda Valeri from Biostatistics.