Announcement
Quincy Samus and Chanee Fabius of the Hopkins’ Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Services (HEADS) Center were recently awarded funding from the NIA Impact Collaboratory to conduct embedded pragmatic clinical trials of non-pharmacological interventions within healthcare systems to improve care for people living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) and their care partners. Chanee Fabius, PhD, Year 1 Pilot principal investigator, was awarded funding as part of the Career Development Award Program and will be investigating a project titled “Engaging and Integrating Direct Care Workers in Care Delivery for Persons Living With Dementia in the Community”. Quincy Samus, PhD, Research & Dissemination Core deputy director, was awarded funding as part of the new Health Care Systems Embedded Research Scholars Program and will be investigating a project titled “Health Care Systems Embedded Research Program: MIND at Home at Centene Corporation”.
The NIA Impact Collaboratory builds the nation’s capacity to conduct pragmatic clinical trials embedded within healthcare systems for people living with dementia and their care partners.