March 1, 2025

A recent article in the New York Times, “When Dementia Changes a Loved One’s Personality” by Louisa Kamps, describes the challenge of understanding and managing behavioral changes in people living with dementia. Research efforts from IMPACT Pilot Grant Awardee Helen Kales, MD are highlighted in the article including her Describe, Investigate, Create, and Evaluate (DICE) Approach which was developed to teach caregivers how to gather information and develop informed responses to behaviors from people living with dementia. IMPACT Faculty Scholar Fayron Epps, PhD, RN also weighs in throughout the article describing things that can provide comfort to people living with dementia, such as watching abbreviated religious services specifically designed for people living with dementia.
Read the full article here.
Two IMPACT funded investigators received awards at the 2024 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting held May 15th, 2024.
IMPACT Career Development Awardee and Faculty Scholar Cameron Gettel, MD, received the SAEM Early Investigator Award and Pilot Grant awardee Peter Serina, MD, MPH, received the SAEM Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) Best Fellow Abstract Award for “Standardizing nursing home to emergency department care transition form improves documentation.”