Project Grant R44AG069566

Grant Summary: Activities4Care Digital Platform Plans4Care Inc. received a $490,262 Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) awarded on June 15, 2025, with completion targeted for May 31, 2026. The award funds development and testing of Activities4Care, a digital platform designed to address the critical unmet need for meaningful activities among the 6+ million individuals living with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related...

This Project Grant award of $353,391.00, provided by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research), aims to validate the use of a "Personal Learning Curve" paradigm as a sensitive marker of early memory decline related to Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers in a large, diverse sample of older adults. The study seeks to determine if this digital cognitive assessment tool, which measures learning over repeated evaluations, can detect subtle AD-related memory failures...

This $1.5 million project grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, will support Memorywell, Inc. in delivering services under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866). Specifically, Memorywell will partner with the University of California San Francisco Acute Care for Elders unit to adapt its life story solution for use in acute care hospital settings, where brief patient life stories would be incorporated into electronic...

Grant Award Summary: SEEINME Digital Profiles Project The National Institute on Aging awarded $326,382 to Seeinme Inc. on September 22, 2025, under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to develop and test SEEINME, a HIPAA-compliant digital personal health profile platform for persons with dementia (PWD). This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will create a consumer-generated, interactive biopsychosocial profile tool that enables PWD, informal caregivers, and...

This $543,539 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at Indiana University from May 2022 to April 2027 to investigate conversational user interfaces that support older adults' social well-being. The grantee will employ participatory design methods involving senior organizations and older adults to generate an empirical understanding...

This $300,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), supports the development of an AI-powered toolkit to make digital activities, such as puzzles and competitive sports, more accessible for older adults aged 50 and above. The project, led by Northeastern University, aims to address the barriers that prevent many older adults from engaging with digital activities, whether due to...

Grant Award Summary Dabble Health, Inc. received a $999,372 Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) awarded on September 20, 2025, with a completion date of September 19, 2026. The company is developing Momento, a smartphone application that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and personalized photo-based activities to enable continuous, non-invasive cognitive health monitoring for older adults. The application transforms...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northeastern University received a $440,000 Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) for the period September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The grant funds the development and validation of natural language processing (NLP) tools to automate the scoring of autobiographical memory interviews for Alzheimer's disease assessment. The project addresses a critical research bottleneck by reducing the manual...

Grant Award Summary Careyaya Health Technologies Inc. received a $1,010,084 Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), awarded on September 22, 2025, with a completion date of September 21, 2026. The company is developing YayaGuide, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven personalized training platform designed to address the critical shortage of skilled caregivers for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). The...

Federal Grant Award Summary Mentia DTX Inc. received a $505,561 Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) for the period of July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027. The award funds development of MentiaCompanion, an artificial intelligence-based empathic virtual companion system designed to track changing health states in persons living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The two-phase initiative addresses significant...