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Assessment of Health-Related Work Capacity to Improve Independence of Older Adults

Award Number: R01AG046290
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 06/15/2014
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2027

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Assessment of Health-Related Work Capacity to Improve Independence of Older Adults - PROJECT SUMMARY Work capacity is a measure of health expressed in relation to the functional demands of the work environment. Specifically, it is the capacity to perform a job or set of jobs, and represents the interaction between an individual’s cognitive, physical, psychomotor, and sensory abilities and the demands of the job. However, in existing data, individuals’ health-related functional abilities are not measured in a way that permits direct comparison to the functional demands of occupations. The goal of the proposed research is to investigate how functional abilities increase and limit work capacity, how these effects interact with human capital acquired earlier in life, and how opportunities for people with different functional ability profiles and skills vary across local areas and industries, shaping their prospects for independence and healthy aging. We will first develop a new conceptual framework for assessing health-related work capacity which integrates measurement of cognitive, physical, psychomotor, and sensory abilities with the measurement of occupational ability requirements. Based on this framework, we will design two surveys that will enable us to assess functional abilities and skills on the same scale and in the same way in which the ability and skill requirements of occupations in the national economy are measured. The surveys will be fielded to a nationally representative sample of individuals regardless of their current work status. We will use the new data to integrate functional abilities and skills with federal data on occupational requirements to produce individualized estimates of work capacity. We will analyze how the new measures of health-related work capacity vary by age, how they differ across demographic groups, and how they are potentially constrained by functional decline in abilities, skill limitations, and lack of occupational opportunities in local areas and across industries.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $629,332 )
2025	2025	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	25 SHATTUCK ST	BOSTON	MA	02115	SUFFOLK	USA	Aging Research	000	10	7/10/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$629,332
														Subtotal = $629,332

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $641,603 )
2024	2024	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	25 SHATTUCK ST	BOSTON	MA	02115	SUFFOLK	USA	Aging Research	000	9	5/31/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$641,603
														Subtotal = $641,603

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $641,067 )
2023	2023	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	25 SHATTUCK ST	BOSTON	MA	02115	SUFFOLK	USA	Aging Research	000	8	6/5/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$641,067
														Subtotal = $641,067

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $657,296 )
2022	2022	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	25 SHATTUCK ST	BOSTON	MA	02115	SUFFOLK	USA	Aging Research	000	7	8/31/2022	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$657,296
														Subtotal = $657,296

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = -$5,272 )
2021	2019	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	25 SHATTUCK ST	BOSTON	MA	02115	SUFFOLK	USA	Aging Research	000	6	9/14/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$5,272
														Subtotal = -$5,272

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $643,296 )
2019	2019	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	25 SHATTUCK ST	BOSTON	MA	02115	SUFFOLK	USA	Aging Research	000	6	6/24/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$643,296
														Subtotal = $643,296

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2018	2017	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	25 SHATTUCK ST	BOSTON	MA	02115	SUFFOLK	USA	Aging Research	000	5	8/6/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $648,806 )
2017	2017	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	25 SHATTUCK ST	BOSTON	MA	02115	SUFFOLK	USA	Aging Research	000	5	8/25/2017	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$648,806
														Subtotal = $648,806

Issue Date FY: 2016 ( Subtotal = $657,392 )
2016	2016	HARVARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL	643 HUNTINGTON AVENUE	BOSTON	MA	02115	SUFFOLK	USA	Aging Research	002	4	8/16/2016	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$657,392
2016	2015	RAND CORPORATION	1776 MAIN ST	SANTA MONICA	CA	90401	LOS ANGELES	USA	Aging Research	000	2	12/18/2015	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$696,627
2016	2015	HARVARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL	643 HUNTINGTON AVENUE	BOSTON	MA	02115	SUFFOLK	USA	Aging Research	001	3	12/18/2015	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$696,627
														Subtotal = $657,392

Issue Date FY: 2015 ( Subtotal = $696,627 )
2015	2015	RAND CORPORATION	1776 MAIN ST	SANTA MONICA	CA	90401	LOS ANGELES	USA	Aging Research	000	2	6/8/2015	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$696,627
														Subtotal = $696,627

Issue Date FY: 2014 ( Subtotal = $724,427 )
2014	2014	RAND CORPORATION	1776 MAIN ST	SANTA MONICA	CA	90401	LOS ANGELES	USA	Aging Research	000	1	6/3/2014	NEW	$724,427
														Subtotal = $724,427

Grand Total All Awards = $5,934,574

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Assessment of Health-Related Work Capacity to Improve Independence of Older Adults

Award Number: R01AG046290

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 06/15/2014

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2027

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