Key informants’ perceptions of telehealth palliative care for people living with dementia in nursing homes March 19, 2025 IMPACT Pilot Grant Awardee Joan Carpenter, PhD, and team describe key informants’ perceptions of a nursing home telehealth palliative care intervention collected during a recent pilot study of an embedded pragmatic pilot clinical trial for people living with dementia. Guided ...

IMPACT Implementation Core Leader, Laura Gitlin, PHD, FGSA, FAAN, and IMPACT Pilot Grant Awardee, Helen Kales, MD are quoted in the recent New York Times article, “How to care for a loved one with dementia: 5 Expert Tips,” by Isabelle Taft. The article highlights the challenges to family members providing care for people living with dementia ...

Nonpharmacological Pain Management for People With Dementia: A Scoping Review Mapping Research Gaps From a Pragmatic Lens March 7, 2025 Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA – ScR) guidelines, researchers from IMPACT’s Implementation Core screened, collated, extracted and mapped data from eligible studies to the 9 domains of ...

An educational intervention to promote central nervous system-active deprescribing in dementia: A pilot study March 1, 2025 MPACT Pilot Grant Awardee, Donovan Maust, MD, MS, recently conducted a pilot cluster randomized trial to assess a patient nudge and education intervention aimed at reducing central nervous system (CNS)-active polypharmacy in people living with dementia (PLWD). The study tested the ...

IMPACT community members, Joan Carpenter, PhD, CRNP, Nancy Hodgson, PhD, RN, and Laura  Hanson, MD, MPH share the results of their recent pilot pragmatic trial which was supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K23NR017663 and the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation, New York. The trial ...

Joshua Niznik, PharmD, PhD, IMPACT Patient and Caregiver Relevant Outcomes (PCRO) Core member and Assistant Professor at The University of North Carolina School of Medicine, shared insights with The Washington Post about the complex relationship between sleep aids and dementia risk.  Dr. Niznik’s perspective highlights the need for careful consideration when using these medications, particularly ...

How Do Researchers Identify and Recruit Dementia Caregivers? A Scoping Review February 5, 2025 IMPACT Health Care Systems Core members, Leah Hanson, PhD, Bhavani Kashyap, MBBS, PhD, Bethany Crouse, PhD, and Rachel Hays, MPH, and IMPACT HCS Core faculty scholars, Beth Fields, PhD, Alyssa Aguirre, MSW, LCSW, Talha Ali, PhD, Xiaojuan Li, PhD, and are among the ...

Aligning Medications with What Matters Most: Conversations between Pharmacists, People with Dementia, and Care Partners February 3, 2025 IMPACT Pilot Grant Awardee, Ariel Green, MD, MPH, PhD, conducted a qualitative analysis of interactions between pharmacists and patient-care partner dyads in this secondary analysis of her pilot study of a pharmacist-led deprescribing intervention for people living with dementia ...

Comprehensive Dementia Care Models: State of the Science and Future Directions January 1, 2025 IMPACT Career Development Awardee Komal Patel Murali, PhD, and Patient and Caregiver Relevant Outcomes Core member Joan Carpenter, PhD are among the researchers investigating the current state of comprehensive dementia care models in the United States. This article explores the current care environment, outlines ...

Randomized in error in pragmatic clinical trials January 1, 2025 IMPACT Design and Statistics Core member Fan Li, PhD and Faculty Scholar Guangyu Tong, PhD are among the investigators addressing the potential impact of randomization error that leads to selection bias in pragmatic trials by testing the feasibility of using Bayesian methods to jointly identify randomized-in-error status ...