Cooperative Agreement 1E1CMS331491

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...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, doing business as Hebrew Senior Life, $486,000 through the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to adapt and pilot the World Health Organization's Integrated Care for Older Persons (ICOPE) framework for post-acute skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The project, which commenced September 10, 2025, and extends through June 30, 2030, will deliver a feasibility-tested clinical protocol...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under the Nursing Research program (CFDA 93.361), aims to develop and test a novel digital tool called COMPASS for improving care delivery and resident satisfaction in long-term care settings. The $275,621 award to Linked Senior Inc. will fund the following key activities over the 1-year project period starting July 2024: Conduct focus groups with long-term care administrators, nursing staff, and...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded Weill Medical College of Cornell University a $676,587 Project Grant on February 15, 2026, to conduct a comprehensive mixed-methods study examining the effectiveness of civil monetary penalties (CMPs) in enhancing nursing home care quality. Funded under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), this five-year project (ending January 31, 2031) will analyze administrative data spanning 2011-2024 to determine...

Summary: Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Program Cooperative Agreement New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) received a $1.25 million Cooperative Agreement from the Administration on Aging under the Special Programs for the Aging, Title IV, and Title II, Discretionary Projects program (CFDA 93.048) to implement an Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Program (EBFPP) spanning September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The program delivers three evidence-based interventions—"A Matter of...

This $2,497,615 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), aims to evaluate the impact of new Medicare home health agency (HHA) payment policies on healthcare utilization and outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The project has three key objectives: 1) characterizing changes in the ADRD beneficiary population eligible for HHA services, 2) evaluating the effect of...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), provides $427,625.00 to the University of Maryland, Baltimore to assess the risk of multi-drug resistant organism (MDRO) transmission from resident care activities in nursing homes. The key objectives are to: 1) Quantify the risk of MDRO transmission from resident care activities in 50 MDRO-colonized short-stay and long-stay nursing home residents, and 2) Compare that to...

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...