This Project Grant award of $2,278,636.00 from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will fund research to characterize and evaluate different nursing home clinician care models for residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The project aims to understand the characteristics and outcomes of existing clinician care models, with a focus on the degree of co-management between nurse practitioners and physicians. The research will survey a nationally...
This $199,375 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research Program (CFDA 93.866) supports a research study at Brown University examining the quality of hospice care provided to Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's and related dementias (ADRD) in long-term care (LTC) settings. The study has two key aims: 1) Describe the individual, facility, and community-level characteristics associated with ADRD beneficiaries receiving care from LTC-focused hospices,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $608,731 to Brown University to conduct research on the impact of Medicare and Medicaid financial policies on post-acute and long-term care for persons living with dementia. The project will leverage 15 years of Medicare claims and clinical assessment data to examine how changes in healthcare financing have affected long-term care utilization and health outcomes for the 6.7 million...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will fund a $858,870 research study to evaluate the impact of expanded telehealth provision on the quality of end-of-life care for nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The study, led by Weill Medical College of Cornell University, will characterize patterns of telehealth usage, assess how telehealth access mediates disparities in specialized care, and measure the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866), aims to study the impact of hospice care on the well-being of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and their family members. The $318,416 project will leverage natural experiments from the opening of new hospice facilities to estimate the effects of hospice utilization on patient outcomes such as pain management, depression, and activities of daily living. It will...
This federal Project Grant award of $416,238, awarded by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 Aging Research) on March 15, 2025, supports a research study titled "PROJECT GLORY: GOOD LIFE IN MEMORY CARE". The study aims to contribute to the understanding of best practices for delivering quality care and improving quality of life for nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The research involves three key components: 1) collecting firsthand...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $3,374,303 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Weill Medical College of Cornell University to conduct the "Understanding Ambulatory Care Utilization in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ACUA)" project. The project aims to examine the role of fragmented ambulatory care in the diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). Key activities include: Secondary analyses of data from...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $2,763,221 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 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 5-year study aims to: 1) determine the effect of physician factors like geriatric subspecialty certification and health system affiliation...
The University of Rochester received a $1,092,079 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 Aging Research) to study the impacts of informal family caregiving on nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), as well as the associations between state Essential Caregiver (EC) programs and caregiving outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to determine how family caregiving affects the health of nursing home residents...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $3,548,906 Project Grant under CFDA 93.866 (Aging Research) to The Johns Hopkins University to study health care access, quality, and outcomes among individuals with dementia in Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs). The 3-year project (8/1/2024 - 4/30/2027) will use linked Medicare-Medicaid administrative data to compare the effectiveness of integrated D-SNPs versus non-integrated D-SNPs in terms of home and community-based services (HCBS)...