The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is a nationwide infrastructure funded through a cooperative agreement from the National Institute on Aging that promotes the conduct of embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials (ePCTs) evaluating the effectiveness of non-pharmacological approaches to improve care for people living with dementia and their care partners within healthcare systems.

The work of the IMPACT Collaboratory is accomplished through a collaborative effort involving multidisciplinary research experts, health care system partners, and other interested parties to do the following :

Support the conduct of ePCTs to improve dementia care by:

• soliciting and funding research grants;
• providing investigators access to IMPACT's resources and experts;
• establishing partnerships between investigators and health care systems;

Enhance investigator capacity to conduct ePCTs in dementia care by providing:

• career development funding;
• mentorship and expert consultation;
• training workshops;
• opportunities to contribute to scholarly projects;
• online learning curricula; and
• scientific symposia.

Develop and disseminate knowledge to advance research methods to conduct ePCTs in dementia care, including:

• peer-reviewed publications,
• guidance documents,
• technical reports,
• scholarly presentations
• community engagement presentations, podcasts, and social media.

All products are collated and publicly accessible in the IMPACT Knowledge Repository.

Engage Community – Engage the community of key partners to enable ePCTs in dementia care by:

• identifying priority areas to improve dementia care from the perspective of health care systems, people living with dementia and care partners
• building collaborations with heath care systems willing to conduct ePCTs in dementia care
• soliciting the review of the relevance of IMPACT research grant applications from people living with dementia and their care partners