NIA IMPACT Collaboratory leaders Jill Harrison, PhD, Vince Mor, PhD, Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH and Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH, recently published a commentary on the article collection “Dementia- an Interdisciplinary Approach,” in the Israeli Journal of Health Policy and Research (IJHPR), which highlights the need for interprofessional approaches to improving outcomes for people living with ...

Editorial article by IMPACT’s Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe comments on the article by Epstein-Lubow et al. and the article by Jennings et al. The authors describe the need for a comprehensive approach to providing dementia care that would improve the outcomes for persons living with dementia and their caregivers

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic AD/ADRD Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural cycle of the IMPACT Career Development Award Program. Recipients were selected from an impressive group of competitive applications. 2020 IMPACT Career Development Award Recipients Jennifer Gabbard, MD, Wake Forest School of Medicine Use of a dementia-specific ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly $234 million to improve COVID-19 testing for underserved and vulnerable populations. A part of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, the RADx Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program will support 32 institutions across the United States and will focus on populations disproportionately affected by the pandemic. IMPACT Principal Investigator ...

The IMPACT Knowledge Repository (KR) and Pragmatic Trials Training Modules are now available within IMPACT Resources. The KR is a searchable collection of IMPACT resources including all publications, podcasts, grand rounds, videos and training modules developed by IMPACT members and cores. The IMPACT Pragmatic Trials Training Modules are a series of short videos produced by content ...

Stemming the Tide of COVID-19 Infections in Massachusetts Nursing Homes September 15, 2020 IMPACT member Laurie Herndon, MSN, GNP, BC, is among the authors describing the April 2020 Massachusetts program implementing a new set of care criteria including mandatory testing of all residents and staff, and a 28-point infection control checklist. Both resident and staff infection rates ...

Laura Gitlin, PhD, FGSA, FAAN and Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD, leaders of the IMPACT Implementation Core are among the authors of a recent journal article examining the use of Community Advisory Boards (CABs) in pragmatic clinical trials.  CABs have become increasingly common and important in translational research in health care including studies focusing on home ...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) IMbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory has released a new funding opportunity available for investigators interested in developing embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) in dementia research. Detailed information about the program as well as timelines, eligibility, and other requirements are provided below and ...

Members of the IMPACT Collaboratory Implementation Core Laura Gitlin, PhD, FGSA, FAAN, and Joe Gaugler, PhD, were co-authors on an article which describes the use of multiple optimized randomization procedures to minimize and control imbalances in characteristics of sites enrolled in the Adult Day Service (ADS) Plus cluster-randomized trial (CRT).

IMPACT Collaboratory Executive Director at Hebrew SeniorLife Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH co-authored an article published in the July 23rd issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society studying trends in preventable hospitalizations of older adults with dementia. Led by  Timothy Anderson, MD, MAS,  from the Division of General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, ...