Building a research program focused on vulnerable people

Abstract

The center is playing an important role in facilitating research by providing resources and an interchange of ideas to help researchers target the methodological and conceptual issues with which they are currently faced in working with elder, young, poor, rural, and minority participants. Through activities and collaborations, the center can advance the science beyond what individual studies can provide and continue to build our knowledge of the prevention and management of chronic illness in vulnerable people. The center is ideally positioned to explore interventions that draw on nursing's historic role in the care of the chronically ill while also addressing the health needs of the most vulnerable people in the state and in the Southeast.