Project Grant 1E1CMS331080

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...

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 $1,306,862 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866) will fund research on the relationship between real estate investment trust (REIT) investments in nursing homes and the quality of end-of-life care for residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The project, led by Weill Medical College of Cornell University, will construct a nationally representative database of nursing home residents with...

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 federal Project Grant award of $641,856 from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will support research to determine the effects of reduced nursing home capacity on older adults, their caregivers, and post-acute/long-term care access. The project, which runs from September 1, 2025 to May 31, 2030, will conduct rigorous quantitative analyses to assess the implications of nursing home capacity declines, which have accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The...

The New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) was awarded a $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Administration for Community Living (ACL) under the Special Programs for the Aging, Title IV, and Title II, Discretionary Projects (CFDA 93.048) grant program. The award will fund NYPH's "Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Program" (EBFPP) to reduce falls among older adults and adults with disabilities in New York. The EBFPP will incorporate a gerontology nurse practitioner-led telehealth...

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 $680,931 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866), is focused on addressing disparities in nursing home care for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) and Alzheimer's disease/related dementias (AD/ADRD). The key objectives are to: 1) Understand the prevalence of SMI alone and SMI with comorbid AD/ADRD in nursing homes, and assess quality outcomes for these groups by race/ethnicity; and 2) Identify...

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 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $2,238,104 to Brown University to conduct research on prescribing cascades among nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The key objectives are to identify risk factors for prescribing cascades, estimate the effects of precipitant medication use on resultant medication use, and quantify the impacts of prescribing cascades on adverse outcomes like...