Underreporting of Early Nursing Home COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal Data September 9, 2021 Elizabeth White, APRN, PhD,  member of the executive committee for the Health Care Systems Core, wrote a commentary to accompany an article examining underreporting of early nursing home COVID-19 cases and death in federal data published in JAMA Network Open. The initial US ...

Demonstration Project Grants Cycle 2 We are pleased to announce that the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory plans to publish a Request for Applications (RFA) for Demonstration Project Grants on October 4, 2021.  Letters of Intent are required and due no later than October 29, 2021. IMPACT will fund Demonstration Projects (maximum duration 24 months) designed as full-scale, Stage ...

Patterns of Oral Bisphosphonate Deprescribing in Older Nursing Home Residents with Dementia September 4, 2021 Joshua Niznik, PharmD, and Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, of the IMPACT Patient and Caregiver Relevant Outcomes Core, among authors of publication analyzing incidence of deprescribing bisphosphonates among nursing home residents with dementia. Abstract Summary In a national sample of Medicare nursing home residents with dementia ...

Pilot Grant Program – Cycle 3B The IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce a Request for Applications for the Pilot Grants Program Cycle 3B. In this cycle, the IMPACT Collaboratory will fund up to five one-year awards for pilot pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) that test non-pharmacological interventions embedded in health care system(s) for people living with Alzheimer’s Disease ...

The efforts of the NIA IMPACT Collaoratory to enhance embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) in people living with dementia was included in a recent JAMA viewpoint, “Expanding Evidence for Clinical Care of Older Adults Beyond Clinical Trial Traditions and Finding New Approaches.” Authors Michael Steinman, MD, Cynthia M. Boyd, MD, MPH, and Kenneth E. Schmader, MD, ...

The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Patient and Caregiver Relevant Outcomes (PCRO) Core has created the IMPACT PCRO iLibrary to help investigators seeking to develop pragmatic clinical trials in people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). The IMPACT PCRO iLibrary is an online, searchable and interactive resource containing information on selected outcome measures derived from existing ...

A study team led by IMPACT’s Multiple Principal Investigator Susan Mitchell, PhD, MPH recently published results of a Trial to Reduce Antimicrobial Use in Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias (TRAIN-AD).   The journal article and an accompanying editorial were published in JAMA Internal Medicine on July 12th. Mitchell and colleagues conducted a cluster ...

María P. Aranda, PhD, and Ladson Hinton. MD, Executive Committee Members of the IMPACT Health Equity Team, were among the co-authors of an article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society discussing information presented at the 2020 National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers, Theme 1: Impact ...

The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the awardees of the Pilot Grants Cycle 2B, Career Development Award, and two new funding mechanisms: the Demonstration Projects Program and Health Care Systems (HCS) Scholars Program.  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 ...

This article summarizes each of the topics presented at the 2020 National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and their Caregivers.