The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the awardees of the Demonstration Projects Program Cycle 2 and the Pilot Grants Program Cycle 3B. Awardees of these opportunities will be supported by IMPACT’s Cores and Teams to conduct embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) of non-pharmacological interventions within healthcare systems to improve care for people living ...

Barbara Healy, RN, BSN, MSN, CCM, NC-BC, Care Coordinator, MassGeneral Brigham Integrated Care Management Program provided this year’s mission moment for the IMPACT Collaboratory 3rd Annual Steering Committee & Business Planning Meeting, held on April 5, 2022. Ms. Healy shared her unique experience in her role as nursing care manager working on the front line as ...

IMPACT Richard J. Hodes, MD, Director of the National Institute of Aging reflected on what he described as the enormous success of the first three years of the IMPACT Collaboratory during the IMPACT Collaboratory 3rd Annual Steering Committee & Business Planning Meeting, held on April 5, 2022. Dr. Hodes discussed the development of a strong network ...

Ethical considerations within pragmatic randomized controlled trials in dementia: Results from a literature survey May 2, 2022 IMPACT members, Fan Li, PhD, Monica Taljaard, PhD, Spencer Hey, PhD, and Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH, a principal investigator of the IMPACT Collaboratory are among the authors of this literature review on the ethics of randomized controlled trials in the ...

Think Pragmatically: Investigators’ Obligations to Patient-Subjects When Research is Embedded in Care April 18, 2022 Emily Largent, PhD, JD, RN, Associate Core Leader of the IMPACT Ethics & Regulation Core co-authored an article addressing researching ethics in embedded pragmatic clinical trials. Largent and Stephanie Morain from Johns Hopkins University published the article in the April 18 online ...

Addressing hesitancy to COVID-19 vaccines in healthcare assistants April 25, 2022 IMPACT members Joshua Niznik, PharmD, PhD, Laura Hanson MD, MPH, and Jill Harrison, PhD were among the authors of this article analyzing factors causing healthcare assistants to hesitate receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. The article in Geriatric Nursing was available online April 25 and published in the ...

Adverse events following third dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccination among nursing home residents who received the primary series April 23, 2022 Roee Gutman, PhD, Executive Committee member of the IMPACT Design & Statistics Core, and Vincent Mor, PhD, a Principal Investigator for the IMPACT Collaboratory are among the authors of an article about adverse effects from the ...

Multiple IMPACT members participated in the National Institute on Aging (NIA) R13 consensus conference, Pragmatic Trials in Long-Term Care: A Consensus Conference, held virtually on March 10, 2021.  The event was funded by the NIA and led by editors of three leading geriatrics journals:  JAMDA (The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine), JAGS (The ...

Maria Aranda, PhD, MSW, MPA, LCSW, member of the IMPACT Health Equity Team Executive Committee, co-authored this article examining how neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) can affect relationship quality between Mexican American caregivers and care recipients.

The IMPACT Collaboratory’s leadership and Health Equity Team have worked with experts from across the Collaboratory to create a set of best practices related to integrating health equity into the design and conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials for people living with dementia and their care partners. The guidance document includes a brief introduction, followed by ...