[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 67 (Wednesday, April 8, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18846-18848]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08027]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-15-15UJ; Docket No. CDC-2015-0019]


Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part 
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, invites the general public and other 
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or 
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on procedures to 
conduct interviews with Age Friendly Initiative, Senior Village, and 
local health department staff, as well as surveys of older adults.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before June 8, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0019 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review 
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road 
NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted 
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.

    Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the 
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the 
address listed above.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of 
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires 
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register 
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new 
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of 
information, and each reinstatement of

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previously approved information collection before submitting the 
collection to OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, we are 
publishing this notice of a proposed data collection as described 
below.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-
up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services 
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or 
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This 
includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, 
install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of 
collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and 
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to 
train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of 
information, to search data sources, to complete and review the 
collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the 
information.

Proposed Project

    Examining how Local Health Departments can Leverage Age-Friendly 
Cities Initiatives to Build Resilience in Elderly Populations--New--
Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Despite considerable progress in efforts to define and build 
community resilience (CR), critical gaps remain in addressing the needs 
of older adults (age 60+), which is expected to rise to 25% by 2050. 
Age Friendly Initiatives (AFIs), including Senior Villages (SV) 
represent a promising strategy for U.S. communities and cities to 
support older adults aging in place, and could potentially build CR. 
However, few AFIs have wholly incorporated the critical element of 
emergency preparedness and resilience. Even when these domains have 
been included, there is no evaluation of whether these efforts have 
resulted in improved resilience outcomes among seniors (e.g., greater 
self-sufficiency).
    CDC is requesting a 24-month OMB clearance period to conduct and 
analyze telephone interview data to identify how current AFIs and CR 
efforts align; understand AFI and SV relationships with LHDs; clarify 
the process through which policymakers can incorporate CR into AFIs; 
survey test sites in a quasi-experimental design of AFIs currently 
underway; and develop a toolkit to help LHDs identify the need for 
AFIs, evaluate and monitor AFIs ability to improve resilience, develop 
effective and efficient partnerships with AFIs to expand AFI-LHD 
efforts across the U.S to build community resilience.
    RAND Corporation research staff will conduct the telephone 
interviews (average of 30 minutes) over a 3-9 month period beginning 
approximately one month after OMB approval. The target universe for the 
interviews with key informants comprises three types of respondents (a) 
SV executive directors; (b) AFI staff; and (c) local public health 
department officials. SVs are neighborhood-based and are grassroots 
organizations usually led by older adult residents. AFIs in the U.S. 
can be either city-based or county-based and are led by city/county-
level administration, health departments, academic centers, and/or 
volunteer organizations. CDC will recruit no more than 30 SV executive 
directors, 31 staff from AFIs, and 15 local health department 
officials.
    To assess the variability in AFIs and SVs and identify 
opportunities for integrating community resilience goals and activities 
into their development and ongoing activities, CDC will conduct 
qualitative interviews using semi-structured interview guides (each 
interview guide for the three groups is different). These interview 
guides ask about the AFIs' or SVs' structure, stage of implementation, 
linkage with public health departments, and whether (and what types) of 
emergency preparedness (EP) activities are provided to older adults in 
their community.
    For the telephone survey of older adults, data collection by a 
survey firm will take place over a 9-15 month period beginning 
approximately 9 months after OMB approval. The sample will comprise of 
1,550 adults age 65 and older from three types of communities: 
Communities with SVs that engage in EP activities, communities with SVs 
that do not engage in EP activities, and control communities without 
SVs or other AFIs.
    The survey firm will conduct a random digit dial (RDD) survey 
(approximately 20 minutes) of 1,550 older adults to evaluate the 
effects of being village member versus not living in a SV, and the 
effects of living in a SV with EP preparedness activities.
    SV members will be identified and recruited in two ways: Member 
lists with contact information will be submitted to the research team 
by SV executive directors or SV executive directors will send a 
recruitment letter on our behalf. The survey will begin with a 
screening question to identify SV member status (1-2 minutes). We 
anticipate that we will need to screen out approximately 1,431 
participants to identify our target sample: SV members who live in an 
SV that does engage in EP activities; SV members who live in a SV that 
do not engage in EP activities; and older adults that do not live in a 
SV. The outcomes and control variables we will measure in the survey of 
older adults are: Disaster resilience, social connectedness, self-
sufficiency, emotional resilience, attention to health needs, exposure 
to age-friendly initiatives, age, gender, race/ethnicity, length of 
time living in community, current living situation, income, and 
presence of chronic health conditions.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time. The total 
estimated annual burden hours are 580. A summary of annualized burden 
hours is below.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of      Avg. burden
      Type of respondents           Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs)        (in hrs)
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Age Friendly Initiative Staff.  Interview Guide               31               1           30/60              16
                                 for Age
                                 Friendly
                                 Initiative
                                 Staff.
Senior Village Director.......  Interview Guide               30               1           30/60              15
                                 for Senior
                                 Village
                                 Director.

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Local Health Department         Interview Guide               15               1           30/60               8
 Representative.                 for Local
                                 Health
                                 Department
                                 Representative.
Older Adult--Screened Out.....  Senior Village             1,431               1            1/60              24
                                 Survey.
Older Adult--Participant......  Senior Village             1,550               1           20/60             517
                                 Survey.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             580
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2015-08027 Filed 4-7-15; 8:45 am]
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