14 Nov Emergency departments seek to transform Alzheimer’s and dementia care through $55M national research grant
UW–Madison researchers led by Dr. Manish Shah are part of a national effort to improve health outcomes for people living with dementia by investigating multiple strategies to advance health care delivery during and after visits to an emergency department (ED). Through a $55 million research grant funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers will implement a large nationwide trial that will provide insight as to how standard of care interventions found to be beneficial in smaller, single-site trials may be effective in more diverse settings.
Manish N. Shah, MD, MPH, professor and chair of the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, and an emergency physician with UW Health, is one of four investigators leading a five-year, 80-site pragmatic clinical trial evaluating focused emergency and post-emergency care interventions for patients living with dementia and their informal care partners.
A nationally recognized expert in geriatric emergency care, Dr. Shah is part of an experienced, interdisciplinary team of investigators at the helm of the Emergency Departments LEading the Transformation of Alzheimer’s and Dementia care (ED-LEAD) study, which is funded by a $55 million, five-year cooperative grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.
Jointly led by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, New York University’s College of Nursing and Grossman School of Medicine, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, the trial will test three interventions — redesigning the ED experience, nurse-led telephone-based care, and transitional care delivered by paramedics. Each intervention is designed to reduce future ED visits and hospital admissions and improve quality care and care coordination for patients with dementia who are discharged home from the emergency department. Read more…