ADRD Pilot Projects
Pilot projects are funded annually as part of a National Institute on Aging (NIA) Program Project Grant (PPG) that conducts health services research to inform and improve the care of people living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD) and/or their families. Projects are related to both to ADRD and to preparing to develop or test an intervention for a future embedded pragmatic study, although they may be at an earlier stage than intervention design or pilot testing, e.g., completing preliminary analyses or eliciting stakeholder perspectives.Awardees may benefit from the mentorship of experienced PPG investigators from institutions across the U.S. and access to the PPG’s national data holdings.
2022 Call for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Pilot Projects
Brown University is pleased to announce that the 2022 Call for ADRD Pilot Projects Solicitation is now available. Letters of Intent are due at 5pm ET on Monday, November 14, 2022.
Please email jenna_wahl@brown.edu with any questions.
Below are past pilot project awardees.
Jill Harrison, PhD
Brown University School of Public Health
“Daily Activities and Preferences of Residents with ADRD Before and During COVID-19”
The aims of this pilot are to describe sample characteristics of persons living with dementia (PLWD) who completed the resident PAT interview and their importance ratings for daily routine and activity preferences (16-item Section F), including important and unmet preferences in the year before and during COVID-19, and examine the association between important, unmet preferences for PLWD and expression of behaviors deemed as problematic in the institutional context.
Kevin McConeghy, Pharm.D., M.S., BCPS
Brown School of Public Health
“Temperature Screening and SARS-CoV-2 in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia”
This pilot constructed a predictive model for temperature readings in Veterans Affairs (VA) community living centers (CLCs) and identified the optimal temperature threshold testing strategy for SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Kira L. Ryskina, MD, MS
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
“Social Comparison Feedback to Reduce Physician Prescribing of Potentially Harmful Medications (PHMs) for Hospitalized Patients with ADRD”
The pilot will develop and test an electronic health record (EHR) based intervention designed to provide hospital-based physicians with information on how they compare with their peers in their rate of prescribing of potentially harmful medications for hospitalized patients with ADRD.
Nicole Rogus-Pulia, PhD, CCC-SLP
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Dysphagia and Feeding Tube Placement in Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia”
The pilot is identifying provider readiness, barriers, and facilitators to proactive dysphagia management for patients with ADRD and developing a conceptual framework to guide successful integration of proactive dysphagia management into routine clinical practice for patients with ADRD.
Sarah Berry, MD, MPH
Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research
“A Pilot Feasibility Project to Optimize Medication Prescription and Reduce Injurious Falls in Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders”
The goal of this pilot project was to evaluate the feasibility of using the FRAiL model as part of a practice intervention to optimize the prescription of medications related to fall and fracture risk in long-stay NH residents with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders (ADRD).