68450 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 220 / Thursday, November 14, 2013 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Notice of Senior Executive Service 

Performance Review Board 

Membership 

The Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ) announces the 

appointment of members to the AHRQ 

Senior Executive Service (SES) 

Performance Review Board (PRB). This 

action is being taken in accordance with 

5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4), which requires 

notice of appointment of members to 

performance review boards to be 

published in the Federal Register. 

Members of the PRB are appointed in 

a manner that will ensure consistency, 

stability and objectivity in the SES 

performance appraisals. The function of 

the PRB is to make recommendations to 

the Director, AHRQ, relating to the 

performance of senior executives in the 

Agency. 

The following persons will serve on 

the AHRQ SES Performance Review 

Board: 

Irene Fraser; Stephen B. Cohen; William 

Munier; David Meyers; Michael 

Fitzmaurice; Phyllis Zucker; Mark 

Handelman; Jean Slutsky; 

For further information about the 

AHRQ Performance Review Board, 

contact Ms. Alison Reinheimer, Office 

of Management Services, Agency for 

Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 

Gaither Road, Suite 4010, Rockville, 

Maryland 20850. 

Dated: November 5, 2013. 

Richard Kronick, 

AHRQ Director. 

[FR Doc. 2013–27169 Filed 11–13–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–14–13QQ] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–639–7570 and 

send comments to Kimberly S. Lane, 

1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, 

GA 30333 or send an email to omb@

cdc.gov. 

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; and (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. Written comments should 

be received within 30 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Older Adult Safe Mobility Assessment 

Tool—NEW—National Center for Injury 

Prevention and Control (NCIPC), 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

In 2010, there were 40 million adults 

aged 65 or older in the U.S., 

representing 13% of the U.S. 

population. By 2030, this segment of the 

population will increase to an estimated 

72 million or 20%. People now aged 65 

are expected to live well into their 80s 

with the vast majority preferring to ‘‘age 

in place’’ (i.e., grow old in their current 

homes). With most adults aging in 

place, rather than in retirement or 

nursing homes, it is absolutely critical 

to better prepare communities and older 

Americans for what is on the horizon. 

There is widespread agreement that 

older adults in the U.S. do not 

adequately plan for their future mobility 

needs, nor are most aware of existing 

mobility resources in their 

communities. Thus, when an 

individual’s mobility becomes impaired 

they are ill prepared to adapt their 

lifestyle to their changing needs. A 

process of mobility assessment would 

begin to address this situation and aid 

older adults in meeting their changing 

mobility needs. 

At present there are numerous 

mobility-related assessments actively 

used throughout the U.S. Most are 

designed to collect information from 

just one particular mobility silo, such as 

assessments that focus on fall 

prevention. None of these existing tools 

cut across mobility silos while focusing 

on older adults. None create a national 

picture of older adult safe mobility that 

captures an individual’s physical and 

emotional health, their social network, 

or the ease of mobility in their home, 

transportation, their neighborhood, their 

city, and beyond. And no existing older 

adult tools are both mobility holistic 

and empowerment driven selfadministered assessments. The data 

collected in this project will allow CDC 

to develop a Tool that can help older 

adults both assess and improve their 

complete mobility. 

This project involves developing, 

refining and validating a Safe Mobility 

Assessment Tool that allows older 

adults to assess their current mobility 

situation, learn about mobility 

challenges that may affect them in the 

future, and receive actionable feedback 

on how to improve and protect their 

mobility. The information collected in 

this project will be used to refine and 

improve the Tool, as well as to conduct 

feasibility and audience acceptability 

analysis of the Tool. This information 

will allow CDC to create the most useful 

Safe Mobility Assessment Tool possible 

for U.S. older adults. 

CDC requests OMB approval for one 

year to collect both qualitative and 

quantitative data in order to develop 

and refine the Tool, and assess 

feasibility and audience acceptability. 

Qualitative data collection will include 

key informant interviews, focus groups, 

and intercepts in urban and rural 

communities. In brief, these methods 

will include key informant interviews of 

community stakeholders (three 

stakeholder interviews in two states for 

a total of six key informant interviews); 

older adult consumer focus groups (two 

focus groups in two states with seven 

people each for a total of fourteen 

participants); and older adult consumer 

intercepts (thirty intercepts in two rural 

locations and ten intercepts in two 

urban locations for a total of forty 

intercepts). The qualitative data 

collection will be used to help inform a 

quantitative stage of work to include a 

national sample of geographically and 

socio-demographically diverse older 

adults (N = 1,000) who will be recruited 

and interviewed by telephone. The key 

informant interviews, focus groups, 

intercepts and telephone survey data 

collection will allow us to gain 

information about the feasibility and 

usefulness of the Older Adult Safe 

Mobility Tool; about what impacts the 

Tool may have on older adults (e.g., 

motivation to change/behavior intent, 

and changes in knowledge, attitude, and 

awareness); about which mobility 

domains are most valuable to include in 

the Tool (e.g., which are of greatest 


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