Featured Videos
Watch the following featured videos to learn more about the IMPACT Collaboratory, our Working Group Cores and Teams, and what drives our mission of building 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.
Mission Moment: Eric Larson, MD, MPH
Eric Larson, MD, MPH, a professor at University of Washington, retired executive director of Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and vice president for research and healthcare innovation at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington, and former Leader of IMPACT’s Health Care Systems Core. Dr. Larson began by reminding the group about how far the field has come in the last 60 years and called on researchers and healthcare providers to follow the Guiding Principles for Dementia Care, as described in “Meeting the Challenge of Caring for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners and Caregivers A Way Forward” released in February 2021 from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Mission Moment: Marie M. Desir, Senior Patient Care Associate (PCA) at Hebrew SeniorLife
Ms. Desir provided a heartfelt description of the challenges that providers, patients, and families faced throughout the pandemic. She provided examples of how her team maintained their humor and humanity to overcome obstacles to good caregiving. Her account received a standing ovation for her inspiring mission moment.
Mission Moment: Barbara Healy, RN, MSN, Care Coordinator, MassGeneral Brigham Integrated Care Management Program
Ms. Healy provided valuable insights from the perspective of a frontline member of the healthcare team working with researchers to conducting pragmatic clinical trial among people living with dementia in real world care settings. She also shared lessons learned and themes for consideration as researchers design and implement pragmatic trials embedding in real world settings in the future.
Alexia Torke Speaks About the Career Development Award Program
IMPACT's Training Core Associate Leader Alexia Torke, MD discusses the Career Development Award Program funding mechanism.
IMPACT Funding, Training, and Engagement Opportunities Video
Jill Harrison, PhD, shares an overview of the IMPACT funding, training, and engagement opportunities, including the Pilot Grants Program, Career Development Awards Program, Demonstration Projects, and Health Care Systems Scholars Program, as well as our Annual Training Workshop and monthly Grand Rounds series in this new video.
Mission Moment: Dr. Brenda Nicholson on Living with Dementia During COVID-19
Brenda Nicholson, MD, a member of the IMPACT Collaboratory Stakeholder Engagement Team Executive Committee and person living with dementia, shares her reflections on living with dementia in the context of COVID-19. Dr. Nicholson’s talk was the mission moment for the IMPACT Collaboratory Steering Committee & Business Planning Meeting on April 6, 2021. Dr. Nicholson shares her unique experience living with dementia and provides a valuable perspective into the feelings of both people living with dementia and their care partners.
Mission Moment: Louise Phillips, MD
The mission of the 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.
IMPACT Health Equity Team
The Health Equity Team (HET) focuses on developing and implementing strategies to address diversity and inclusion in the conduct of ePCTs for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners to ensure the IMPACT Collaboratory is a national resource for all Americans afflicted with dementia. Learn more about how the HET is working to increase health equity in dementia care from Core Leader Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS.
IMPACT Ethics and Regulation Core
The Ethics and Regulation Core (previously known as the Regulation and Ethics Core) focuses on clarifying the balance among the competing priorities of conducting ePCTs in people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners, protecting the interests of participants, and assuring health care systems that regulatory issues are addressed. Learn more about the core's work from Core Leader Jason Karlawish, MD.
An Introduction to the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory
Richard J. Hodes, MD, Director of the National Institute of Aging (NIA) 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.
IMPACT Implementation Core
The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Implementation Core helps researchers to take their findings beyond journals to help make a difference in dementia care. Learn more from Core Leader Laura Gitlin, PhD, FGSA, FAAN.
Mission Moment: Marie Martinez Israelite, MSW
The 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 on Alzheimer’s
The 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….