The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory held the 5th annual Business Meeting on April 2, 2024, and hosted the 3rd annual Scientific Conference on embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials (ePCTs) in dementia care on April 3-4, 2024. The meetings, held in Bethesda MD and via zoom for virtual attendees, were attended by more than 200 participants. Annual Business Meeting Highlights from ...

 IMPACT members Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA, MS and Health Care Systems Scholar Gail Towsley, PhD, MS, NHA published an article  in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). The editorial article, Learning from the experience of dementia care for nursing home residents during the pandemic, comments on an article by Gadbois et al, about nursing home care ...

COVID-19 and influenza vaccine coadministration among older U.S. adults February 23, 2024 IMPACT’s Multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, and executive director Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH, are among the authors of an American Journal of Preventive Medicine article exploring COVID/influenza vaccine coadministration between 2021-2022. The study included community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries ages 66 years old and older who ...

Evidence Map of Non-Pharmacological Dementia Care Partner Interventions Implemented in the US: Gaps and Impact Opportunities April 17, 2024 Implementation Core members Zachary Baker, PhD, Allison Gustavson, PT, DPT, PhD, Sokha Koeuth, PhD, MPH, Joseph Gaugler, PhD, Kimberly VanHaitsma, PhD, and Laura Gitlin, PhD, FGSA among authors of paper that presents an evidence map of settings and ...

The IMPACT Collaboratory is highlighted in a blog post by Lis Nielsen, director of NIA’s Division of Behavior and Social Research (DBSR), celebrating the National Institute on Aging’s 50th anniversary. In the blog, Dr. Nielsen reflects on NIA’s developments over its first five decades and looks forward to opportunities ahead. IMPACT is featured as an example ...

Ready or Not: A Conceptual Model of Organizational Readiness for Embedded Pragmatic Dementia Research April 10, 2024 Implementation Core members examine the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of organizational readiness for implementing and operationalizing evidence-based dementia care practices across settings, diverse populations and disease trajectories. Authors offer a preliminary conceptual model for explicating and measuring organizational readiness and describe ...

Pharmacist-led telehealth deprescribing for people living with dementia and polypharmacy in primary care: A pilot study March 15, 2024 The recent article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) by IMPACT funded investigator Ariel Green, MD, MPH, PhD and team, describes how complexities in medication management can be reduced and patient goals can be met ...

Two IMPACT Collaboratory cores have developed new tools to assist in the design of embedded pragmatic trials (ePCTs) for people living with dementia. The Design and Statistics Core has developed statistical tools and novel methodology to aid in the design and analyses of ePCTs for people living with dementia. These methods, manuscripts, statistical programs, and interactive ...

IMPACT’s Cameron Gettel, MD and Julie Bynum, MD, MPH are among the authors of the CAPRA Data Brief on health care use patterns among older adults with dementia. The brief was developed by the Center to Accelerate Population Research on Alzheimer’s (CAPRA) at the University of Michigan. Authors demonstrated the use of Medicare claims to examine ...

IMPACT member Jason Karlawish, MD, weighs in on a proposed Alzheimer’s diagnosis tool – a simple blood test. An independent Alzheimer’s working group is finalizing its recommendations for diagnosing Alzheimer’s based on the presence of amyloids in a blood test alone, independent of symptoms. Karlawish voices concern that the amyloid blood test is not yet ...