The National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research (CFDA 93.866) Federal Grant Program, awarded a $199,375 project grant to Brown University. The project aims to examine whether hospices specializing in long-term care (LTC) settings provide better care to beneficiaries with Alzheimer's and related dementias (ADRD) compared to non-LTC hospices. Key objectives include: 1) describing individual, facility, and neighborhood-level characteristics associated with receiving care from LTC...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $596,258 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Weill Medical College of Cornell University to characterize and predict patient trajectories after live discharge from hospice among older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The project aims to apply longitudinal clustering methods to Medicare claims and encounter data to identify patient subgroups with heterogeneous trajectories after hospice live discharge,...
This $334,788 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) aims to investigate the impact of recent revisions to the Medicare home health payment system (Patient-Driven Groupings Model or PDGM) on access, care delivery, and outcomes for community-living Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The 2-year study, starting September 1, 2023, will leverage Medicare claims, home health assessment, and agency data to:...
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 $195,480 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute on Aging under CFDA Program 93.866 Aging Research, will fund the development and pilot testing of a culturally sensitive care management checklist to guide hospice transitions for Black, Latino, and Asian persons living with advanced dementia who receive home healthcare services. The project, titled "ENGAGE-D: Designing Culturally Sensitive Care Management for Hospice Transitions for Diverse Persons Living with Advanced...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research (CFDA 93.866) Federal Grant Program, awarded a $2,763,221 project grant to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The 5-year grant, effective September 1, 2024, will support research to examine the impact of physician, hospital, and skilled-nursing facility factors related to geriatric care on days spent at home among persons with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD). The study aims to determine how...
This $917,701 federal Project Grant award under the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) will fund a 5-year study conducted by Brigham & Women's Hospital to implement and evaluate an Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) pathway specifically for people living with dementia. The study aims to: 1) Evaluate the effect of a pre-enrollment AHCAH pathway on quality of life over 12 months for persons with moderate to severe dementia (Aim 1); and 2) Evaluate the...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a Project Grant under the Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866) to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center to examine end-of-life care for persons living with dementia (PLWD). The $2,303,477 grant will leverage data from the Dementia Care Study (D-CARE), a 4-site randomized clinical trial, to compare documentation of PLWD advance care preferences, overall end-of-life care quality, and healthcare utilization in the last 6 months...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $3,548,906 Project Grant under the Aging Research (CFDA 93.866) federal grant program to The Johns Hopkins University. This 3-year project, which runs from August 1, 2024 to April 30, 2027, will use nationwide linked Medicare-Medicaid administrative data to compare the effectiveness of integrated Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs) to non-integrated D-SNPs for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). The analyses...
The National Institute on Aging awarded a $539,635 Project Grant under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to The RAND Corporation to develop a family-based macro-simulation model examining the supply and demand of care for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The project aims to simulate individual- and family-level economic and well-being outcomes based on the factors influencing ADRD caregiving, including care needs, caregiver availability, and the cost of formal care. The...