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 ...

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

Care Fragmentation, Care Continuity, and Care Coordination—How They Differ and Why It January 29, 2024 IMPACT member, Julie Bynum, MD, MPH, co-authored a viewpoint article addressing health care fragmentation, or the practice of a single patient seeing many physicians for their health care needs. Despite common occurrences, there has been limited scientific scrutiny around fragmentation of care ...

Mapping racial and ethnic healthcare disparities for persons living with dementia: A scoping review January 24, 2024 Members of IMPACT’s Health Equity team authored a scoping review article exploring the literature on racial and ethnic disparities for persons living with dementia. Ladson Hinton, MD, Kate Peak, MPH, and Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS, addressed how and an older ...

IMPACT’s Health Equity Team co-leader Maria Aranda, PhD, MSW, MMPA, LCSW was inducted as a 2024 fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW). Aranda is one of two distinguished faculty members inducted from the University of Southern California (USC) Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. The AASWSW recognizes the accomplishments ...

IMPACT Collaboratory introduced its latest online training program designed to empower researchers at all levels in integrating health equity considerations into embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials (ePCTs) for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners. Program Overview: This comprehensive training program, aligned with the “Best Practices for Integrating Health Equity into ePCTs for Dementia Care” document, ...

Algorithmic identification of persons with dementia for research recruitment: ethical considerations January 10, 2024 Algorithms using patient information associated with dementia can be used to help identify people with the condition who are not yet diagnosed. In this article, authors, Alex London, PhD, Jason Karlawish, MD, Emily Largent, PhD, JD, RN, Spencer Hey, PhD, and Ellen McCarthy, ...

IMPACT’s Engaging Partners Team leader Gary Epstein-Lubow, MD from the global health nonprofit, Education Development Center, received a grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation to coordinate with the developers of six evidence-based comprehensive dementia care programs to help define dissemination strategies, establish standards and tools, and conduct training to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based programs ...