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Mission Moment: Dr. Brenda Nicholson on Living with Dementia During COVID-19

woman standing at Grand CanyonBrenda Nicholson, MD, a member of the IMPACT Collaboratory Stakeholder Engagement Team Executive Committee and person living with dementia, shares her reflections on living with dementia in the context of COVID-19. Dr. Nicholson’s talk was the mission moment for the IMPACT Collaboratory Steering Committee & Business Planning Meeting on April 6, 2021.  Dr. Nicholson shares her unique experience living with dementia and provides a valuable perspective into the feelings of both people living with dementia and their care partners.

 

 

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Mission Moment: Louise Phillips, MD

link to videoThe mission of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is to build the nation’s capacity to conduct pragmatic clinical trials of interventions embedded within health care systems for people living with dementia and their care partners.   Our Mission Moments highlight the perspective of someone directly involved with dementia to remind us of the importance of our mission. In this Mission Moment, Louise Phillips, MD shares her experience as a person living with dementia and a retired physician.

 

 

 

IMPACT Health Equity Team

The Health Equity Team (HET) focuses on developing and implementing strategies to address diversity and inclusion in the conduct of ePCTs for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners to ensure the IMPACT Collaboratory is a national resource for all Americans afflicted with dementia. Learn more about how the HET is working to increase health equity in dementia care from Core Leader Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS.

 

 

 

 

The IMPACT Collaboratory Health Equity Team from NIA IMPACT Collaboratory on Vimeo.

IMPACT Ethics and Regulation Core

The Ethics and Regulation Core (previously known as the Regulation and Ethics Core) focuses on clarifying the balance among the competing priorities of conducting ePCTs in people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners, protecting the interests of participants, and assuring health care systems that regulatory issues are addressed. Learn more about the core's work from Core Leader Jason Karlawish, MD.

 

 

 

 

The IMPACT Collaboratory Regulation and Ethics Core from NIA IMPACT Collaboratory on Vimeo.

 

An Introduction to the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory

link to videoRichard J. Hodes, MD, Director of the National Institute of Aging and Partha Bhattacharyya, PhD, the IMPACT Collaboratory Project Officer and Program Director in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research, share their thoughts on the need for the IMPACT Collaboratory and the project goals.

 

 

An Introduction to the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory from NIA IMPACT Collaboratory on Vimeo.

Mission Moment: Marie Martinez Israelite, MSW

link to videoThe mission of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is to build the nation’s capacity to conduct pragmatic clinical trials of interventions embedded within health care systems for people living with dementia and their care partners.   Our Mission Moments highlight the perspective of someone directly involved with dementia to remind us of the importance of our mission. In this Mission Moment, we hear from Marie Martinez Israelite, MSW, Director of Victim Services at the Human Trafficking Institute and care partner for her mother, a retired physician who is living with Alzheimer’s. Ms. Israelite spoke at the NIA IMPACT Steering Committee meeting in January 2020.

 

 

IMPACT Collaboratory Mission Moment: Marie Martinez Israelite from NIA IMPACT Collaboratory on Vimeo.

IMPACT on Alzheimer’s

Tlink to videohe National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded a five-year grant expected to total $53.4 million to Brown University and Boston-based Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL) to lead a nationwide effort to improve health care and quality of life for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, as well as their caregivers. Read more at: https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-09-10....