Project Grant 00000D31HP70141

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $397,721 Project Grant under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to The Leland Stanford Junior University, also known as Stanford University, to enhance the implementation, effectiveness, and reach of Geriatric Emergency Departments (GEDs) for older adults with Alzheimer's and related dementias (ADRD). The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) Identify GED care processes associated with reduced hospitalizations and increased...

This $121,209 National Institute on Aging project grant will support research assessing the impact of primary care structural capabilities on hospitalizations among older adults with dementia. Specifically, the grantee will analyze cross-sectional data from 2018-2019 to describe structural capabilities like care coordination, electronic health records, and community integration in primary care practices employing nurse practitioners to serve Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a 5-year, $849,993 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to The Ohio State University to develop an electronic health record (EHR) navigator that collates geriatric care information based on the "4Ms" framework (What Matters, Mentation, Medications, Mobility) to improve hospital care for older adults. The project aims to engage stakeholders, including experts from five national geriatric quality improvement programs, to design the...

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the federal Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program aims to improve long-term care (LTC) quality and safety for individuals living with dementia. With $449,999 in funding, the 3-year project starting September 2024 will implement and evaluate two decision support technology (DS tech) prototypes focused on fall prevention and staff burnout detection in LTC facilities. The...

This $110,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities will support the development of an augmented/virtual reality nursing assistant training program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The training program aims to address staffing shortages in long-term care settings through improving certified nursing assistants' (CNAs) attitudes, perceptions and communication skills related to caring for older adult patients....

This Project Grant award of $2,278,636.00 from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will fund research to characterize and evaluate different nursing home clinician care models for residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The project aims to understand the characteristics and outcomes of existing clinician care models, with a focus on the degree of co-management between nurse practitioners and physicians. The research will survey a nationally...

This $1,933,556 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under its Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) will support research to assess the impact of hospital-based health information technology (hospital-HIT) on healthcare quality and equity for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The primary awardee, the University of Maryland, College Park, will conduct a ten-year longitudinal study to evaluate how hospital-HIT systems that promote care...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $243,000.00 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to develop and implement a prognosis communication tool for older adults receiving post-acute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The goal is to provide personalized prognostic information to SNF patients about the likelihood of outcomes such as hospital readmission, long-term nursing home transition, and...

This Project Grant award of $794,956 from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Transitional Care Management (TCM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) services in improving health outcomes and reducing healthcare costs for older adult Medicare beneficiaries. The research will employ a target trial emulation approach to compare TCM and CCM services to usual care, with a focus on outcomes such as home time, survival, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $243,000.00 to the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, doing business as Hebrew Senior Life, to adapt and pilot the World Health Organization's Integrated Care for Older Persons (ICOPE) protocol for integration into post-acute skilled nursing facility (SNF) care. The key objectives are to: 1) Adapt the existing community-based ICOPE protocols to align with post-acute SNF workflows, and 2) Test the...