IMPACT collaboratory announces recipients of two funding mechanisms

Posted on by Jeannine Sato

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.

Pilot Grant Program Cycle 4B

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: