The needs of family caregivers of persons living with dementia cared for in primary care practices
August 18, 2023
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The IMPACT Collaboratory is happy to announce a Request for Applications for Cycle 4 of the Health Care Systems Scholars Program
The Health Care Systems (HCS) Scholars Program offers researchers an opportunity to partner with healthcare systems to develop embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) focused on improving care for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners (CPs). The program funds researchers to partner with HCS (or organization) for 12 months to:
- Develop relationships between the researcher and HCS staff at all levels, from direct care to leaders.
- Learn about the HCS: about staff-identified needs for PLWD and CPs; about systems, workflow, and data; and about how the HCS implement programs.
- Engage HCS staff in exploring ways to improve and/or evaluate dementia care and in learning more about what it means to conduct ePCTs in their setting(s).
- Co-develop a research proposal for an IMPACT Pilot or Demonstration project (or other similar NIA funding mechanism) to improve the care of PLWD and CP.
The IMPACT Collaboratory will fund one researcher for a maximum of $120,000 in direct costs. Applicants are expected to apply with a HCS partner and should hold a faculty or research scientist position at an academic institution or work within a HCS. Applicants from under-represented racial and ethnic groups and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Priority will be given to applications including scholar institutions and HCSs that are new to the IMPACT Collaboratory and have not already partnered with our network. Questions about whether a HCS is new to the IMPACT Collaboratory should be emailed to Rachel Hays at Rachel.J.Hays@kp.org.
Informational Webinar
An optional informational webinar will be hosted to provide investigators with an overview of application details and an opportunity to ask questions. Pre-registration is required using the link below.
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 @ 11:30 AM ET
Registration closed.
Letters of Intent (LOI) – Required
Interested applicants are required to submit a LOI.
LOIs are accepted on a rolling basis through September 26, 2023 @5 PM ET.
Full Proposals (By invitation only)
Applications selected for further consideration will be invited to submit a full proposal due:
November 29, 2023 @5 PM ET.
Read the Full RFA here.
Learn more about our previous Health Care Systems Scholar Awardees here.
If you have any questions about this funding opportunity, please refer to our Frequently asked questions (FAQ) or email .
Mor explores complexities of intervention delivery at NIH Collaboratory annual steering meeting
IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, along with colleagues Steven George, PT, PhD and Angelo Volandes, MD, discussed the complexities of intervention delivery in pragmatic clinical trials during an interview at this year’s NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Steering Committee annual meeting. The group explained that delivery complexities impact researchers’ ability to discern trial results and should be addressed early for pragmatic trials.
The session, titled “Lessons on Intervention Delivery and Complexity,” was held on August 8, 2023. An excerpt of Mor’s interview is published on the NIH Collaboratory website.
IMPACT member and team are finalists in NIA Start-Up and Accelerator Challenge
IMPACT funded investigator Tina Sadarangani, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, GNP-BC, was selected as one of 20 finalists for the 2023 NIA Start-Up Challenge and Accelerator: Fostering Entrepreneurial Diversity. The project is a mobile app that facilitates communication among family members, loved ones, and health care providers, and community-based caregivers like adult day centers around the day-to-day care of older adults. Learn more about the app at www.CareMobi.org.
Learn more about the finalists and the 2023 NIA Start-Up Challenge.
IMPACT collaboratory announces recipients of two funding mechanisms
The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the awardees of the Pilot Grants Cycle 4B, and the Demonstration Projects Program Cycle 3. 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. IMPACT prioritizes applications that promote health equity and address dementia care for people of all backgrounds. Learn more about the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory on the website. Read more about these opportunities and our newest awardees below.
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 4B Awards:
- Scott Dresden, MD, MS, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Deprescribing Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Emergency Department for Persons Living with Dementia - Teresita Hogan, MD, FACEP, University of Chicago
Pragmatic Use of PAIN-Advanced Dementia Scale in Emergency Hip Fracture Care
Demonstration Projects Program
The Demonstration Projects Program supports full-scale, Stage IV effectiveness ePCTs testing non-pharmacological interventions for people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners that are linked to the needs of a health care system. The intervention typically includes relatively simple system changes, direct patient outreach, or successfully piloted programs ready for testing at scale. The goal of the demonstration project is to generate evidence on effective care delivery practices that can be expanded and/or implemented in other systems.
Recipients of the Demonstration Projects Awards:
- Ariel Green, MD, MPH, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
ALIGN: Aligning Medications with What Matters Most - Alexia Torke, MD, MS and Nicole Fowler, PhD, MHSA, Indiana University School of Medicine
The Aging Brain Care Virtual Program
Mor serves on NIH Collaboratory panel to discuss making health decisions based on PCTs
IMPACT multiple principal investigator and longtime professor of health services, policy and practice at Brown University, Vincent Mor, PhD served as a panelist during the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Collaboratory Workshop. “Getting the Right Evidence to Decision-Makers Faster.” The panel, held on June 29, was titled “How Have Health Systems Made Decisions Based on Evidence Collected in PCTs?” and discussed how healthcare system leaders can evaluate research and implement findings.
Watch the full panel video.
Quiñones interviewed on health equity in ePCT landscape during annual NIH meeting
IMPACT Health Equity Team (HET) leader Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS and colleague Dr. Anne Trontell reflected on health equity in the embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) landscape during the 2023 NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Annual Steering Committee Meeting.
The focus of the meeting was health equity in ePCTs and Quiñones spoke about the efforts of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory to include health equity approaches in all aspects of its care and research efforts, resulting in a series of best practice recommendations.
Comments from both scholars were published in the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory website, rethinkingclinicaltrials.org.