Cooperative Agreement 90CGPS0002

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Aging under CFDA 93.866 Aging Research, will support a longitudinal study to examine informal caregiving networks for older adults with dementia. The total award amount is $1,030,776.00 with a project period from September 15, 2024 to May 31, 2029. The study will use a multi-informant, social network approach to characterize informal caregiving networks, including network properties, member composition, and caregiving role...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a 2-year, $290,190 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866) to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) to conduct an exploratory study on the caregiver networks of older adults living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The study aims to apply social network analysis (SNA) to improve understanding of the real-world informal and professional caregiver networks that older adults rely on for day-to-day care. Key objectives include identifying how...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $714,638 to The Medical University of South Carolina to conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of the CAARE (Caregivers' Aid to Accelerate Recovery after Pediatric Emergencies) intervention. CAARE is a technology-assisted, stepped care intervention that provides emotional and behavioral screening, brief...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Aging (Aging Research, CFDA 93.866), supports the co-development and evaluation of a digital symptom assessment tool called CARES. The $242,992 award will enable Dr. Sarah Nouri, an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), to: 1) adapt an existing paper-based symptom assessment toolkit to address the unique needs of homebound older adults with serious illness, including those with cognitive...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded a $3,130,685 Cooperative Agreement grant under the Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866) to the Trustees of Indiana University to establish the "THE NH EXPLANATORY TRIALS NETWORK: SUPPORTING TRANSFORMATION BY ENHANCING PARTNERSHIPS (THE NEXT STEPS)" research network. The network aims to address systemic barriers to conducting research in nursing homes, which provide critical care for people with Alzheimer's disease and...

The University of Rochester received a $1,092,079 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 Aging Research) to study the impacts of informal family caregiving on nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), as well as the associations between state Essential Caregiver (EC) programs and caregiving outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to determine how family caregiving affects the health of nursing home residents...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) provides $241,500 to the University of California, Davis to develop and test an online Emergency Preparedness Toolkit (EPT) for spousal caregivers of patients with dementia. The goal is to engage these caregivers in planning for their own unexpected health emergencies, which can disrupt the caregiving relationship. The project will compare the ability of caregivers to identify and engage a...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $584,259.00 to Emory University to test the efficacy and sustainability of a carepartner-integrated telerehabilitation program for persons with stroke. The primary goals are to: 1) Determine the effects of the "Carepartner and Collaborative Integrated Therapy (CARE-CITE)" program on stroke survivor upper...

This $562,314 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) supports a 3-year study to identify risk and protective factors associated with psychosocial resilience in spousal caregivers for spouses with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The study leverages data from several large, longitudinal cohort studies, including the Health and Retirement Study, to examine how caregivers' well-being, mental health, and cognitive...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $128,548 to Northwestern University to conduct research on improving care coordination and reducing care fragmentation for older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) and multimorbidity. Specifically, the project will use social network analysis and electronic health record data to map system-level and patient-level clinician networks, with the goal of...