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INTERNSHIP PLACEMENT SITE PROPOSAL FORM

Project Title: __Applied Aging Research ______

Project Preceptor/Supervisor: ______Todd Manini, Ph.D., Associate Professor______(Name, credentials and title)

Organization: ___Institute on Aging______

Address: __University of Florida, 2004 Mowry Rd., Gainesville FL______

Phone Number: __352-273-5914______Fax: ______

E-mail address: [email protected]______Website: ______http://aging.ufl.edu/______

Americans spend over 90% of their activity related energy expenditure performing common daily activities. Health professionals use normative data as a guide to prescribe appropriate activities for patients, clients and the public. Describe the background and Additionally, scientists use this resource to plan physical activity or nutritional rationale for this project. interventions and apply these estimates to public health initiatives. However, while normative data have existed for over 20 years and are seemingly accurate in young adults, they can lead to misguided estimates of the metabolic cost of daily activities in older adults.

1. Gain skills in secondary data analyses______

2. Build knowledge of research operations ______

What is/are the goal(s) of this 3. Conduct applied data analyses and data reduction project? 4. Learn data collection and management in a research clinic-based setting

5. Be exposed to management of large scale nationally funded research

1. Determine age-related differences in the metabolic cost of daily

activities

List 3-5 project objectives. 2. Investigate the effect of functional impairments on the metabolic cost of

daily activities

The Foundation for The Gator Nation An Equal Opportunity Institution 3. Evaluate the validity of perception-based measurement of exertion

across the lifespan We expect the proposed work will produce a resource for accurate energy expenditure values of daily activities in 60+ year-olds. It will also produce an What is the significance of this age-adjusted value that can be applied to hundreds of daily tasks for refining project and its outcome(s) to practice normative data. This will have a major impact for how practitioners or research? recommend physical activities to both middle-aged and older adults. The research will also improve how physical activity is delivered by understanding the factors associated with age-related errors in perceiving exertion.

. What is the preferred Date: ______beginning of each semester______starting time of the project? . How many hours per week Hours per week: _____20-40______will this project require? . What is the length of this project (i.e. 6 weeks, 3 Length: ______Ongoing______months, ongoing, etc.)?

Develop a timetable (if possible) for this project to assist student Please attach timetable to this form. planning. The project is ongoing and will continue until the end of 2019.

Identify equipment and resources All equipment and resources are provided. needed on-site to complete the project. Are they available?

Is this internship paid? (Yes/No) If yes, what is the stipend amount? ______No______

What public health concentration Biostatistics* Environmental Health Epidemiology* area would best suit this project? (More than one area may be circled) Health Management & Policy Social & Behavioral Science

Basic analytical skills in SAS, STATA or R are preferred, but not mandatory. What knowledge and/or skills are you looking for in a student?