Project Grant 2024588

This $124,166 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University will fund the development and evaluation of Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) for informal caregivers of Alzheimer's and dementia patients. The goal is to improve caregiver knowledge, communication, and advance care planning for end-of-life issues. The project will involve conducting surveys and interviews...

This Project Grant award, worth $186,251.00, was provided by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866). The funding supports a research project led by Dr. Otis (Shaun) Owens at the University of South Carolina (USC) to investigate the use of remote monitoring technologies to enable aging-in-place for rural, low-income African Americans living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) and their care partners. The key...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $1,010,368 to Koronis Biomedical Technologies Corp. (KBT) to develop and validate a novel cognitive intervention system to support informal caregivers and families of individuals living with mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, or other dementias. The funded project aims to build an in-home cognitive training platform that delivers a series of evidence-based, personalized exercises...

This $242,992 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) supports the co-development and pilot testing of a digital symptom assessment tool called CARES. The tool is designed to empower caregivers of homebound, Medicaid-enrolled older adults with serious illnesses, including those with cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt an existing paper-based symptom assessment toolkit to address...

This $449,999 Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226) aims to improve long-term care (LTC) quality and safety for people living with dementia. The University of Colorado-Denver, the prime grantee, will implement and evaluate two decision support technology (DS Tech) prototypes focused on fall prevention and staff burden detection in LTC settings. The research will...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) supports Dr. Emily Paolillo's research to use passive digital health technologies and machine learning analytics to improve the detection and monitoring of neurobehavioral changes in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The $197,569 award, with a period of performance from September 11, 2024 to May 31, 2029, will enable Dr. Paolillo to acquire expertise in passive digital phenotyping, big data...

This $325,779 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) supports a research project titled "COMPETENCE, AUTONOMY, RELATEDNESS, AND CONNECTIONS (CARE CONNECTIONS): A PEER-LED INTERVENTION DESIGNED WITH PARKINSONS DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS CAREPARTNERS TO IMPROVE HOLISTIC SUPPORT." The project aims to: 1) Identify the dimensions and positive/negative aspects of caregiving for individuals with Lewy body dementia (LBD); 2) Adapt and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to democratize interactive robot learning to enable care partners (e.g., spouses, children, nurses) to intuitively program and personalize robot behavior to assist individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with activities of daily living. The $424,828 award to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, acting through its Office of Sponsored Programs,...

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 $1,759,004 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866), will fund a research project titled "Understanding Ambulatory Care Utilization in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ACUA)." The project aims to investigate the role of fragmented ambulatory care in the diagnosis and management of dementia, including potential associations with delayed diagnoses, racial disparities,...