Payment For Comprehensive Dementia Care: Five Key Recommendations February 7, 2023 An article by authors including IMPACT members Gary Epstein-Lubow, MD and David Reuben, MD provides insights and recommendations for payment for comprehensive dementia care in Health Affairs Forefront. Abstract More than 6.5 million older Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease today, a number projected to double by 2050. Alzheimer’s ...

IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vincent Mor, PhD, is to be honored with an McKnight’s Industry Ally Award on March 7, 2023. The first McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards program “recognizes industry veterans who are setting the standards, driving change, providing guidance and inspiring us all,” in senior care, skilled nursing, or the home care sector.   Mor is ...

IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD recently co-authored an article in Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open sharing results of a cross-sectional analysis of Medicare beneficiaries. The JAMA Network Open article shares a cross-sectional analysis of more than 2 million Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized between 2017 and 2019. The analysis revealed that persons with ...

IMPACT Collaboratory held its 3rd annual Training Workshop and Retreat, “Building Skills to Conduct Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials for People Living with Dementia (PLWD) and their Care Partners,” on January 25th and 26th. The 1.5-day virtual workshop and retreat included 80 participants from 55 institutions. Participants were selected from applications from early to mid-stage researchers seeking ...

Differences in Nursing Home Staff COVID-19 Testing Rates and Odds of Vaccination Across Work Shifts February 6, 2023 Investigators from the Improved Vaccine Uptake in Skilled Nursing Facilities: IMPACT-C supplement study, Elizabeth White, APRN, PhD, Jasmine L Travers, PhD, MHS, RN, Natalia Gouskova, PhD, Vincent Mor, PhD, and Sarah Berry, MD, PhD, published an article in Health Affairs ...

Health equity considerations in pragmatic trials in Alzheimer’s and dementia disease: Results from a methodological review February 5, 2023 IMPACT members Katherine D. Peak, MPH, Fan Li, PhD, Susan L. Mitchell, MD, MPH, Ana R. Quiñones, MD, MS, and Monica Taljaard, PhD are among authors of an article on health equity considerations in pragmatic trials involving people ...

Open science in dementia care embedded pragmatic clinical trials February 1, 2022 This article provides several recommendations to enhance the transparency and reporting rigor of ePCTs in dementia care and other chronic disease contexts. The authors, including IMPACT Implementation Core Leader, Joseph Gaugler, MD, illustrate these recommendations in the context of a recent pilot pragmatic trial known ...

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 Request for Applications for the Pilot Grants Program Cycle 5A.  In this cycle, the IMPACT Collaboratory will fund up to five 1-year awards for pilot pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) that test non-pharmacological ...

IMPACT Health Equity Team (HET) member María Aranda PhD, MSW, MPA, LCSW addresses the challenges of developing a caregiving plan in a recent New York Times article. “How to Make a Caregiving Plan (So It’s Ready When You Need It)” features insights from Aranda and other experts. Dr. Aranda shares tips for approaching caregiving conversations ...

Penn Memory Center at University of Pennsylvania Health System, is hosting a virtual event with IMPACT’s Jason Karlawish, MD and Angela Taylor, who will discuss the shortcomings and challenges of nomenclature in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Karlawish and Taylor are working to find the answers to questions like: What’s the difference between Alzheimer’s disease and ...