Dr. Tina Sadarangani’s CareMobi caregiver support mobile application (app) was featured in a national story on Specturm News. The CareMobi app is designed to help caregivers track patients health information, symptoms and other information needed to coordinate caregiving for older adults. The news feature describes how Sadarangani worked with caregivers, nurses, doctors and programmers to create the app, which helps coordinate a person’s entire care team. Several senior care centers are testing the app as part of a research study by the National Institute on Aging. The app is available in the Apple App Store and is currently free to all during the testing phase.
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Vince Mor presenting in pre-conference workshop during this year’s Society for Clinical Trials Annual Meeting
IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, will join colleagues Emily O’Brien, Wendy Weber, Elizabeth Turner, and Angelo Volandes, presenting at the “Patient-Centered Research in Real-World Settings: Essentials of Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials Workshop” on day 1 of The Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials (SCT).
The workshop will provide an introduction to the opportunities for embedded health systems research, along with strategies for conducting patient-centered clinical trials that provide real-world evidence necessary to inform improvements in healthcare. The team will incorporate health equity considerations into their presentation.
SCT’s annual meeting is a multidisciplinary program that brings together the clinical trials community. The annual meeting will be held in Boston, MA, May 19-22, 2024.
IMPACT scholar appointed editor of Palliative Medicine Report
The IMPACT Collaboratory wishes to congratulate Hillary Lum, MD, PhD, who was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Palliative Medicine Reports. The journal, published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc. Publishers, focuses on peer-reviewed articles covering medical, psychosocial, policy, and legal issues in serious illness and end-of-life care.
IMPACT awardee quoted in NYT article on mild cognitive impairment
IMPACT Career Development awardee Andrew Kiselica, Tech-AiD, weighed in on the impact of a mild cognitive impairment diagnosis, and ways to manage symptoms and slow progression in a recent opinion piece in the New York Times. Kiselica is an assistant professor of health psychology and a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Missouri. He commented on the possibility of new dementia medications and current risks and benefits.
Mor’s contributions to Brown’s School of Public Health featured in it 10-year anniversary celebration
Brown University’s School of Public Health is featuring the contributions of IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Professor Mor has led aging research at Brown for more than 40 years and he helped found the School of Public Health.
He is further credited with transforming aging and dementia care research after serving in the roles of department chair, center director and principal investigator on more than 40 National Institutes of Health-funded grants during his tenure.
Learn more about Mor’s work at Brown University’s School of Public Health, including a Q&A and video entitled Behind the Lectern: Vincent Mor.
IMPACT collaboratory announces recipients of two funding mechanisms
The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the awardees of the Pilot Grants Cycle 5A, and the Health Care Systems Scholars Cycle 4. Awardees of these funding opportunities will be supported by the IMPACT cores and teams to conduct embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) of non-pharmacological interventions within healthcare systems to improve care for people living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) and their care partners.
The Pilot Grant Program funds several one-year pilot ePCTs that test non-pharmacological interventions embedded in health care systems to improve care for people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners. Pilot studies are conducted to generate the preliminary data necessary to design and conduct future full-scale Stage IV effectiveness ePCT (based on the NIH Stage Model) that will be funded through other grant mechanisms (National Institutes of Health or other sources).
Recipients of the Pilot Cycle 5A Awards:
- Julie Lauffenburger, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Deprescribing in Patients Living with Dementia with Caregiver and Provider Nudges - Peter Serina, MD, MPH, Brown University School of Public Health
PartnerED Care: Coordinated ED Transition for Assisted Living Patients with ADRD - Veronica Yank, MD, University of California San Francisco
Primary Care-Based Pilot ePCT of an Online Workshop for Family Caregivers of PLWD
Health Care System Scholars Program Cycle 4
The Health Care Systems (HCS) Scholars Program funds investigators for one year to work directly with health care systems interested in improving the care provided to people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners. The goals of the HCS Scholars Program are to embed investigators in health care systems to:
- Establish mutually beneficial partnerships to improve the care of PLWD and their care partners.
- Train investigators about health care settings’ needs and how new programs are successfully introduced at all levels of the organization.
- Engage HCS in learning more about what it means to conduct ePCTs and provide resources for understanding opportunities for improvement in dementia care or evaluation of related quality improvement projects.
- Strengthen collaborations between investigators and HCS that may lead to pilot studies or demonstration projects.
Recipient of the Health Care System Scholars Program Cycle 4 Award
- Alycia Bristol, PhD, RN, AGCNS-BC, University of Utah College of Nursing
Partnering with UHealth and Rural Facilities to Co-Design ePCT Interventions
IMPACT Collaboratory shares annual round-up of activities, funding awards and publications
The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory has published a round-up of 2023 activities that includes more than a dozen funding awardees in six categories and 44 publication citations by IMPACT members. It also includes links to member conference presentations and to all 2023 Grand Rounds and podcasts.