Project Grant W81XWH2210291

Veterans Medical Research Foundation Of San Diego will use a $749,985 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to examine associations between traumatic brain injury history and other risk factors on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in military veterans. As a non-profit organization, the Foundation will leverage its experience conducting medical research to enhance veteran health outcomes. For this award...

The Defense Health Agency awarded a $183,258 Project Grant titled "LONGITUDINAL MONITORING OF COGNITIVE CHANGES IN OLDER VETERANS USING TELEHEALTH COMPUTERIZED NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT" to the East Bay Institute for Research & Education Inc. in Mather, CA. The grant is funded under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), which supports advanced biomedical research to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the public. The...

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 Project Grant award of $405,049 from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will support The Johns Hopkins University's "The Medicaid Waiver Dataset Initiative: The Role of Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services in Health and Health Care for Persons Living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias". The project aims to develop a validated methodology to catalog Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) waiver characteristics and...

This $997,008 Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports a 3-year research project by the Northern California Institute for Research and Education, Inc. (NCIRE) to investigate risk and resilience factors for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) among American Indian and Alaskan Native veterans. The research aims to inform prevention strategies for this population. NCIRE is a...

This $562,314 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) supports a 3-year study to identify risk and protective factors associated with psychosocial resilience in spousal caregivers for spouses with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The study leverages data from several large, longitudinal cohort studies, including the Health and Retirement Study, to examine how caregivers' well-being, mental health, and cognitive...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866), will support research examining the impact of stressful and traumatic experiences on the well-being of unpaid family caregivers of individuals living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The $774,120 award to Wake Forest University Health Sciences will fund a 5-year study to investigate how exposure to potentially traumatic events, both prior to and during...

The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a 4-year, $4,778,800 project grant to the University of Virginia (UVA) to conduct the "REACH Intervention for Caregivers of Veterans and Service Members with TBI: Efficacy and Implementation Planning Across the VA Polytrauma System of Care." This grant, funded under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program, aims to develop and evaluate the efficacy of the REACH caregiver support intervention for...

This federal Project Grant award of $3,240,750 from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) supports a 4-year longitudinal study to investigate the influence of interpersonal connectedness between persons with Alzheimer's disease (PWDs) and their spousal caregivers on the early progression of the disease. The study, conducted by the University of Nebraska Medical Center, will recruit 142 urban and rural co-living spousal care dyads where the care recipients are in the...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $585,710 to the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), doing business as VNS Health, to test the effectiveness of a virtual health coaching intervention called "Virtual Caregiver Coach for You" (VICCY) for caregivers of adults with heart failure and cognitive impairment. The grant aims to expand upon prior research demonstrating the efficacy of VICCY in improving self-care...