Marie M. Desir, Senior Patient Care Associate (PCA) at Hebrew SeniorLife provided this year’s mission moment for the IMPACT Collaboratory Annual Steering Committee & Business Planning Meeting, held on April 11, 2023. Ms. Desir shared her unique experience as a frontline member of the healthcare team working with people living with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ms. ...

Emergency Department-to-Community Transitions of Care: Best Practices for the Older Adult Population June 14, 2023 IMPACT Career Development Awardee, Cameron Gettel, MD, co-authored an article describing emergency department (ED)-to-community care transitions for older adults. The article emphasizes that older adults visiting the ED often have chronic illnesses and impairments, making effective care transitions critical to good health ...

The research of IMPACT Multiple Principal Investigator  Vince Mor, PhD and member Ellen McCreedy, PhD, MPH is featured in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) blog post on the effects of music and Alzheimer’s disease. The Blog titled, “Could ‘musical medicine’ influence healthy aging?” highlights the Music and MEmory: A Pragmatic TRIal for Nursing Home ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory will host a virtual workshop, “Getting the Right Evidence to Decision-Makers Faster: Insights from the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory”. The virtual event will be held June 20-21 to explore the critical cycle of evidence generation to decision-making by health system leaders looking to implement the findings ...

The Long-Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative announces a request for applications for the newly established 2023 Real World Data Scholars Program. This program supports the development of advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty who are interested in developing their expertise and experience in working with electronic health record (EHR) data. This program offers a ...

A call to address structural barriers to Hispanic/Latino representation in clinical trials on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: A micro‐meso‐macro perspective June 5, 2023 IMPACT Health Equity Team members Maria P. Aranda and Peggye Dilworth-Anderson are principal author and co-author respectively, on this perspective paper addressing the US Hispanic/Latino experience of underrepresentation in Alzheimer’s disease and related ...

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 the recipient of the Investigator Training Award to Promote Diversity. 2023 IMPACT Investigator Training Award to Promote Diversity Latarsha Chisholm, PhD, MSW, University of Central Florida GUIDE+ACP Video Intervention Implementation in Nursing Homes Additional details on this recipient and her funded project ...

The other dementia breakthrough—Comprehensive dementia care May 22, 2023 A May 2023 viewpoint article–written by Drs. David Reuben and Gary Epstein-Lubow and Ms. Nora Super — about the benefits of comprehensive dementia care on quality of care, clinical outcomes for people living with dementia, and their caregivers, as well as the barriers to the dissemination and implementation ...

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 a new request for applications for the 2023 Career Development Award (CDA). These CDAs support the development of MD, PhD, or equivalent researchers who seek careers conducting embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) ...

IMPACT Health Equity Team Leader, Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS, will participate in a moderated Steering Committee panel discussion focusing on health equity entitled “Focus on Health Equity: The ePCT Landscape/Ecosystem,” as part of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory annual meeting. Quinones will contribute to the Steering Committee panel goals of identifying national programs and initiatives that ...