This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) totaling $956,214 will fund Ceresti Health, Inc. to develop and validate a Spanish-language version of their Caregiver-Enabled Care Program (CECP) for Hispanic/Latino families caring for loved ones with dementia. The CECP is a digital population health intervention that provides personalized education, coaching, and remote monitoring to unpaid/informal caregivers via a dedicated tablet. This project aims...
This Project Grant award for $774,997, funded by the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), will support a randomized clinical trial to assess the efficacy of the CUIDATEXT text message intervention to provide caregiver support for Latino families caring for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The intervention, developed using user-centered principles, delivers tailored daily text messages covering five domains: disease education,...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $1,987,023 Project Grant under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop new measurement tools and computer adaptive tests to better characterize the experiences of non-traditional and minority informal caregivers of individuals living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The 3-year project aims to identify critical elements of the caregiving role through semi-structured interviews...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $819,713 Project Grant under its Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to the University of Chicago. The grant, titled "COMMUNITYRX-DEMENTIA + PEER NAVIGATION (CRXDPEER): A REAL-WORLD IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS STUDY OF AN IT-BASED SOCIAL CARE INTERVENTION", will evaluate the delivery of a technology-based community resource navigation intervention to support caregivers of individuals with dementia. The project aims to demonstrate...
This Project Grant award of $161,988 from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) supports a research project led by Dr. Emily Mroz at Emory University. The project aims to develop an intervention to improve preparedness and psychological health in experienced caregivers of persons living with dementia. Key activities include validating a caregiver preparedness measure, characterizing caregiving narration patterns, and exploring associations between narration and caregiver...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $311,341 to the University of Southern California to assess cost and non-cost barriers to the use of novel Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementia (ADRD) therapeutics among older Hispanic or Latino adults. The project involves two main phases. The first phase will conduct semi-structured interviews with a cohort of Latino adults and Latino patients with AD/ADRD and their caregivers to...
This $123,530 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the Trustees of Indiana University supports a research project titled "Developing a Naturalistic Paradigm for Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment." The overarching goal is to create a framework for early detection of cognitive decline in older adults using a multimodal approach. Key objectives include: Identifying cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $499,796 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Clear Session, Inc. in partnership with UTHealth Houston. The grant will fund the development of an innovative digital visualization tool to improve communication between clinicians, Latino patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), and their caregivers. The tool is designed to enhance healthcare conversations by breaking down information in clear and culturally-competent...
This Project Grant award of $840,931 from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), aims to characterize family structure, care utilization, and well-being among persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) in the Asian region. The research will leverage data from 10 national aging studies in Asia to (1) identify major types of family structures providing dementia caregiving, (2) assess factors associated with these family structures,...
This $839,262 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will support a multilevel investigation into the effects of migration on the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) among Mexican Americans. Conducted by the Trustees of Columbia University, the study will leverage a unique binational dataset to (1) estimate the impact of migration, US residence, and acculturation on cognitive function and dementia risk, (2) evaluate how...