title: Linking the NIH strategic plan to the research agenda for social workers in health and aging.
abstract: Although social work has a long and distinctive tradition of practice-relevant research aimed at enhancing the health and well-being of older adults, the profession has been underrepresented among the ranks of academic researchers and the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) scientific endeavors. In this article, the inherent capacities of social workers to generate and disseminate empirical health-related knowledge are discussed and recent developments in social work's geriatric research infrastructure are described. Emerging domains for advancing the profession's contribution to practice-relevant geriatric research on the federal level are identified and the next steps toward advancing the field's research agenda are posed.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Psychosocial Study of Health and Illness, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. vhr1@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Victoria H
authors.initials: VH
authors.lastname: Raveis
authors.forename: Daniel S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Gardner
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Berkman
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Harootyan
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015438:Health Behavior; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D008019:Life Style; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.) / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013727:Terminal Care; D014481:United States