IMPACT Career Development Awardee, Andrew Kiselica, PhD, and team examined the applicability and diagnostic accuracy of technology-based iADLs in individuals evaluated for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD).  In the study, 264 care partners of people undergoing comprehensive interdisciplinary evaluations  completed the Functional Activities Questionnaire and 11 technology-based iADL items.

A review of current practice in the design and analysis of extremely small stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials October 8, 2024 IMPACT Design and Statistics Core members Guangyu Tong, Kendra Plourde, Xueqi Wang, Fan Li, and Monica Taljaard are among the authors of a new article which provides valuable insights into the design and analysis methods used in ...

Feasibility of Implementing Dementia Collaborative Coaching into Routine Care in Nursing Homes October 6, 2024 IMPACT Career Development Awardee Natalie Douglas, PhD, CCC‐SLP and team assess the feasibility of implementing Dementia Collaborative Coaching (DCC) into the routine workflows of speech-language pathologists working in nursing homes (NH). To address the need for improved communication between certified nursing assistants (CNAs) ...

Exploring Family Caregivers’ Likelihood of Adopting a Novel App That Connects Care Teams of Persons Living With Dementia: A Mixed-Methods Study October 5, 2024 IMPACT Career Development Awardee, Tina Sadarangani, PhD, RN, and team describe the acceptability and likelihood of family caregivers of people living with dementia (PLWD) adopting CareMOBI in the new publication Exploring Family Caregivers’ ...

Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and the tyranny of treatment October 3, 2024 IMPACT Ethics and Regulation Core leader, Jason Karlawish, MD, and Joshua Grill, PhD, reflect on the advances in Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and treatment and the implications these advances have for people living with the disease. Authors describe emerging diagnostic biomarkers and disease-targeting treatments as holding promise for ...

Embedding Authorship Identity into a Portal-Based Agenda Setting Intervention to Support Older Adults and Care Partners October 1, 2024 IMPACT Health Care Systems (HCS) Scholar, Hillary Lum, MD, PhD, is among the authors of a new publication, Embedding Authorship Identity into a Portal-Based Agenda Setting Intervention to Support Older Adults and Care Partners, which describes an adaptation to ...

Socioeconomic and medical determinants of state-level subjective cognitive decline in the United States October 1, 2024 IMPACT member, Nicholas Pajewski, PhD, among research team exploring the socioeconomic and medical determinants of subjective cognitive decline (SCD) at a population level in the United States. The principle study aim was to clarify the association between state-level socioeconomic and medical ...

A Pragmatic Approach to Identifying Goal-Concordant Care for Nursing Home Residents With Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Dementias September 16, 2024 IMPACT members, Natalie Ernecoff, PhD, MPH, Ellen McCreedy, PhD, MPH, Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, and Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH, among authors of recent publication describing the use of a retrospective analysis of nursing home (NH) electronic health ...

Health equity in COVID-19 testing among patients of a large national pharmacy chain September 11, 2024 IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vincent Mor, PhD, and team published a recent article, Health equity in COVID-19 testing among patients of a large national pharmacy chain,  in Frontiers of Public Health, describing individuals who sought testing for COVID-19 at a national ...

Congratulations to IMPACT Associate Pilot Core Leader, Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA, MS, of IU School of Medicine and Regenstrief Institute and team on recent 5-year award from the National Institutes of Health to develop NEXT STEPs (Nursing Home EXplanatory Clinical Trials: Supporting Transformation by Enhancing Partnerships), an innovative national nursing home clinical trials network. Researcher-clinicians from ...