Professor awarded Alzheimer Association Advancing Research on Care and Outcome Measurement Award
Michael Lepore, PhD, professor and co-director, Center for Health Equity and Outcomes Research, has received a nearly quarter-million-dollar, two-year Alzheimer’s Association Advancing Research on Care and Outcome Measurement (ARCOM) Award in support of the project Advancing Person-Centered Dementia Care in Low-Resource Contexts.
This is a community-based participatory research study in which investigators are partnering with persons living with dementia, family members, and care staff in nursing homes and assisted living communities in two states to elicit perspectives on the measurement and delivery of person-centered dementia care. The research team will use study findings from interviews and design-thinking workshops to co-develop an inclusive measurement framework that increases capacity for meaningful measurement and for high-quality dementia care in low-resource contexts, including long-term care settings that are predominantly funded by Medicaid.