Assistant professor awarded a National Institute on Aging grant
Joan Carpenter, PhD, CRNP, ACHPN, FPCN, assistant professor, has been named the recipient of a Cycle 2A Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease and AD-Related Dementias Clinical Trials (IMPACT) pilot grant by the National Institute on Aging. Her grant, Implementation of a Telehealth Palliative Care Model for Persons with Dementia, has been awarded $40,000.
People living with dementia (PLWD) receiving post-acute care in nursing homes often receive treatments focused on intense rehabilitation and/or aggressive, disease-focused therapies. This has profound implications for quality of life and end-of-life experiences of PLWD. Palliative care consultation offers an evidence-based alternative for PLWD; it increases advance care planning, improves patient and care partner satisfaction, and reduces costs and acute care use.
The evidence-based Nurse Practitioner (NP)-delivered telehealth Palliative Care Consultation in Post-Acute Care (PCC-PAC) intervention is a multi-component non-pharmacologic, NP-delivered intervention designed to meet the needs of PLWD receiving post-acute care in nursing homes. This pilot study for an embedded pragmatic clinical trial will assess the implementation outcomes including fidelity of the telehealth PCC-PAC intervention in PLWD and their care partners.