Mission Moment: Louise Phillips, MD

link to videoThe mission of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is to build the nation’s capacity to conduct pragmatic clinical trials of interventions embedded within health care systems for people living with dementia and their care partners.   Our Mission Moments highlight the perspective of someone directly involved with dementia to remind us of the importance of our mission. In this Mission Moment, Louise Phillips, MD shares her experience as a person living with dementia and a retired physician.

 

 

 

An Introduction to the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory

link to videoRichard J. Hodes, MD, Director of the National Institute of Aging and Partha Bhattacharyya, PhD, the IMPACT Collaboratory Project Officer and Program Director in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research, share their thoughts on the need for the IMPACT Collaboratory and the project goals.

 

 

An Introduction to the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory from NIA IMPACT Collaboratory on Vimeo.

Mission Moment: Marie Martinez Israelite, MSW

link to videoThe mission of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is to build the nation’s capacity to conduct pragmatic clinical trials of interventions embedded within health care systems for people living with dementia and their care partners.   Our Mission Moments highlight the perspective of someone directly involved with dementia to remind us of the importance of our mission. In this Mission Moment, we hear from Marie Martinez Israelite, MSW, Director of Victim Services at the Human Trafficking Institute and care partner for her mother, a retired physician who is living with Alzheimer’s. Ms. Israelite spoke at the NIA IMPACT Steering Committee meeting in January 2020.

 

 

IMPACT Collaboratory Mission Moment: Marie Martinez Israelite from NIA IMPACT Collaboratory on Vimeo.

IMPACT on Alzheimer’s

Tlink to videohe National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded a five-year grant expected to total $53.4 million to Brown University and Boston-based Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL) to lead a nationwide effort to improve health care and quality of life for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, as well as their caregivers. Read more at: https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-09-10....