Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, a member of the executive committee for the IMPACT Patient and Caregiver Relevant Outcomes Core, was recently quoted in a New York Times opinion piece about the impact of isolation on nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve lost part of the long-term care work force by restricting families,” said Zimmerman,  who ...

The  fiscal year 2021 omnibus spending bill includes a $300 million increase for Alzheimer’s and dementia research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including $15 million to fund and implement the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act (P.L. 115-406), and advances the Improving HOPE for Alzheimer’s Act (S. 880/H.R. 1873). This research funding increase was ...

The Penn Roybal Center on Palliative Care in Dementia is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity. Their pilot program seeks to revolutionize the development and testing of behavioral interventions that leverage behavioral economic insights and data science methods to improve palliative care delivery for persons with dementia (PWD) in long-term services and support (LTSS) facilities. ...

The IMPACT Collaboratory will hold its first annual Training Workshop and Retreat, “Building Skills to Conduct Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials for People Living with Dementia (PLWD) and their Care Partners,” on April 7-8, 2021. We are inviting applications from early to mid-career researchers who seek to develop competence in designing and conducting ePCTs of interventions to improve care ...

US Deprescribing Research Network Pilot and Grant Opportunity Application Deadlines: 1/22/21 The US Deprescribing Research Network funds pilot and exploratory studies, grant planning activities, and small collaboration grants. The goals of these grant programs are to support early-stage research in deprescribing that has high potential to develop into future large projects, to catalyze research in areas that are ...

IMPACT Principal Investigator Vince Mor, PhD is among the experts interviewed for a new documentary from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) which explores the reasons theCOVID-19 pandemic has so severely impacted long-term care (LTC) and nursing facilities across the United States. What COVID-19 Exposed in Long-Term Care analyzes the challenges LTC facilities have faced since ...

IMPACT Collaboratory Principal Investigator Vincent Mor, PhD will lead a new supplement to the IMPACT funding to study adverse events in nursing home residents who receive the COVID-19 vaccination in real time. The award to Brown University will be used to design an adverse event monitoring system to identify adverse health impacts after receipt of COVID-19 ...

The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory published its first newsletter on October 26. The newsletter includes updates from the first year of the IMPACT Collaboratory, news, and upcoming events. Read the newsletter at this link, and sign up to receive future newsletters here.

The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory, in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Association, is seeking nominations to establish a Lived Experience Panel. We are looking for people living with dementia  and those caring for people with dementia to share experiences to help inform the development and testing of interventions to improve dementia care. It is critical to include ...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory is pleased to announce that the IMPACT community has been awarded 4 NIA COVID-19 Supplements for research efforts in response to the urgent public health needs arising from COVID-19 and it’s devastating impact on people living ...