Dr. Tina Sadarangani’s CareMobi caregiver support mobile application (app) was featured in a national story on Specturm News. The CareMobi app is designed to help caregivers track patients health information, symptoms and other information needed to coordinate caregiving for older adults. The news feature describes how Sadarangani worked with caregivers, nurses, doctors and programmers to ...

IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, will join colleagues Emily O’Brien, Wendy Weber, Elizabeth Turner, and Angelo Volandes, presenting at the “Patient-Centered Research in Real-World Settings: Essentials of Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials Workshop” on day 1 of The Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials (SCT). The workshop will provide an introduction to the ...

The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory: History, impact, challenges, and the future of conducting ePCTs to improve dementia care February 16, 2024 Authors: Jill Harrison PhD, Susan L. Mitchell MD, MPH, Ellen P. McCarthy PhD, MPH, Vincent Mor PhD Background: In a special issue of the Journal of the American Geriatric Society (JAGS) Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National ...

The IMPACT Collaboratory wishes to congratulate Hillary Lum, MD, PhD, who was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Palliative Medicine Reports. The journal, published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc. Publishers, focuses on peer-reviewed articles covering medical, psychosocial, policy, and legal issues in serious illness and end-of-life care.

Development and Validity of Norms for Cognitive Dispersion on the Uniform Data Set 3.0 Neuropsychological Battery February 13, 2024 IMPACT Career Development Awardee Andrew Kiselica, PhD, and coauthors describe the team’s efforts to develop and validate the normed scores for cognitive dispersion among older adults. Investigators analyzed data from 4,283 cognitively normal older adults aged 50 or ...

IMPACT Career Development awardee Andrew Kiselica, Tech-AiD, weighed in on the impact of a mild cognitive impairment diagnosis, and ways to manage symptoms and slow progression in a recent opinion piece in the New York Times. Kiselica is an assistant professor of health psychology and a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Missouri. He ...

Brown University’s School of Public Health is featuring the contributions of IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Professor Mor has led aging research at Brown for more than 40 years and he helped found the School of Public Health. He is further credited with transforming aging and dementia care ...

Staff perspectives on dementia care in nursing homes: A pre-implementation, content analysis study guided by the Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model February 1, 2024 IMPACT Career Development Awardee, Natalie Douglas, PhD, CCC‐SLP, and Patient and Caregiver Relevant Outcomes (PCRO) Core member, Joan Carpenter, PhD, CRNP, ACHPN, describe the results from a pre-implementation qualitative study using 5 ...

The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the awardees of the Pilot Grants Cycle 5A, and the Health Care Systems Scholars Cycle 4.  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 ...

The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory has published a round-up of 2023 activities that includes more than a dozen funding awardees in six categories and 44 publication citations by IMPACT members. It also includes links to member conference presentations and to all 2023 Grand Rounds and podcasts. Read the full 2023 IMPACT round-up