Author: Jeannine Sato

National collaboratory seeks candidates for mentorship program to improve care for older adults at risk of elder mistreatment

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The National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment Mentorship Program (NCAEM) is seeking a new cohort for its one-year mentorship program to support clinicians, service providers, researchers, policymakers, and advocates who are focused on improving care for older adults experiencing or at risk of experiencing elder mistreatment. Each year a newly selected cohort participates in the program. Ideal candidates may be from many disciplines, such as social workers, health care workers, community organizers, or researchers willing to be paired with an expert mentor, design and complete a selected project and attend an annual conference at the programs conclusion. Applicants representing or working with underserved populations are encouraged to apply. The first cohort will be selected by early June, 2023.

The deadline to apply is May, 5, 2023. Visit the Collaboratory mentorship program website for more information.

Watch – Words Matter: Shortcomings and challenges of nomenclature in Alzheimer’s disease

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IMPACT Ethics and Regulation Core Leader, Jason Karlawish, MD, hosted a virtual conversation on the shortcomings and challenges of nomenclature in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and learn about the opportunities to address these challenges. He was joined by IMPACT Stakeholder Advisory Committee member, Angela Taylor, BA of the Lewy Body Dementia Association.

Karlawish and Taylor discussed questions and consideration in the field’s nomenclature including:: What’s the difference between Alzheimer’s disease and dementia? Should we still use the word dementia? Does it make sense to say that a person with MCI can progress to Alzheimer’s disease? In the term ADRD, does the second “D” stand for “disease,” “disorder,” or “dementia”?

The entire discussion can be viewed on You Tube.

Two IMPACT members tapped for National Center advisory board

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IMPACT’s Gary Epstein-Lubow, MD of the Stakeholder Engagement Team, and Implementation Core Communications Consultant, John Beilenson, AB, MA, are among the 16 members of a new advisory board established by The National Center to Reframe Aging — the nation’s leading organization dedicated to reshaping the conversation about older people. Members are from diverse professional backgrounds such as communications and public relations, research, policy, and law.

Read the full story.

Vincent Mor to be honored for exceptional career achievement with McKnights Award

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IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vincent Mor, PhD, is to be honored with an McKnight’s Industry Ally Award on March 7, 2023. The first McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards program “recognizes industry veterans who are setting the standards, driving change, providing guidance and inspiring us all,” in senior care, skilled nursing, or the home care sector.  

Mor is Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice; and Florence Pirce Grant University Professor, Brown University School of Public Health at Brown University. His decades-long career in understanding senior care is credited with driving change and setting standards in the field.  

 

The Pinnacle Awards ceremony will be held at the The Ivy Room in Chicago, IL on March 7. Details and tickets are available online.  

IMPACT’s Mor is among authors of JAMA article on hospital discharge rates and nursing home quality for those with dementia

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IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD recently co-authored an article in Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open sharing results of a cross-sectional analysis of Medicare beneficiaries.

The JAMA Network Open article shares a cross-sectional analysis of more than 2 million Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized between 2017 and 2019. The analysis revealed that persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia were more likely to be discharged to lower-quality Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) after accounting for discharging hospital, residential neighborhood, and other characteristics (e.g., post-acute care specialization) of all SNFs available at discharge. Results were consistent in analyses stratified by race and ethnicity, payer source, and primary diagnosis.

The article was also covered in McKnight’s to emphasize how the study results show that regulatory and payment changes are “badly needed” to improve the care process and support direct care staff working with dementia patients.

The McKnight article emphasized how the results should cause policymakers to consider incentivizing nursing homes to take patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). The study data showed that these patients often end up in low-quality facilities after a hospital stay. Mor and his colleagues suggested that improving nursing home quality for patients with ADRD will require focused funding efforts to provide quality care.