Project Grant R44NR017842

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Vigorous Mind, Inc. received a $499,981 Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) awarded on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2026. The grant funds the development and feasibility demonstration of an autonomous robot designed to deliver a multicomponent non-pharmacological intervention to reduce delirium in hospitalized elderly patients living with dementia. Delirium, an acute...

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 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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program ($566,944) will support the development of purposeful conversational agents based on hierarchical knowledge graphs from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The awardee, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, will create a fully functional conversational agent that incorporates factual knowledge, logical reasoning, and persuasive conversation strategies....

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 $162,745 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging will support research to improve identification of delirium. Specifically, the grantee will determine the four most commonly used and well-validated delirium identification instruments. They will then harmonize these instruments to generate an item bank and identify optimal cut-points to determine whether a patient has delirium. This work aims to create a unified approach to delirium identification...

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...

This $110,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities will support the development of an augmented/virtual reality nursing assistant training program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The training program aims to address staffing shortages in long-term care settings through improving certified nursing assistants' (CNAs) attitudes, perceptions and communication skills related to caring for older adult patients....

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) aims to advance geriatric palliative care by assessing the feasibility and acceptability of using radio frequency (RF) sensors to capture cardiopulmonary measures in nursing home patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The $451,721 award to Weill Medical College of Cornell University will also develop a machine learning algorithm to autonomously detect and predict respiratory...

This $249,250 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of an AI coaching system to enhance surgical teamwork in cardiac operating rooms. Over four years, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will design multimodal hardware and algorithms to model, monitor, and generate interpretable feedback on teamwork dynamics using data from cardiac procedures. The goal is to mitigate human...