This RFA supports a national survey of professional dementia care providers and link consented survey respondents (providers and institutional representative) that consent to administrative data (e.g., electronic health records, claims, payroll, other institutional and state level data).
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/03/2023
Size of the Grant: $16,200,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The goal of the new resource is to expand research on the AD/ADRD care workforce, including the supply of skilled labor, and provide a deeper insight into how professional care providers and institutions provide care for persons living with AD/ADRD. The survey will oversample individuals from populations understudied in AD/ADRD research who serve in various professional caregiving roles (e.g., physicians, licensed practical nurses (LPNs), social workers, etc.) and institutions serving predominately underserved populations. This will allow for the examination of how the characteristics of professional care providers, and the institutions employing them, lead to variations in care provided to persons living with AD/ADRD. It may also facilitate the identification of modifiable behaviors, at both an organization and an individual level, that can improve overall health care delivery and eliminate AD/ADRD disparities.
Purpose and Research Objectives
This FOA invites applications to develop a national survey of professional dementia care providers and link consented survey respondents (providers and institutional representatives) to administrative data (e.g., electronic health records, claims, payroll, and other institutional and state-level data). The integration of the supply side survey with administrative data can provide deeper insights into: how professional care providers and institutions provide care for persons living with AD/ADRD; how the characteristics of professional care providers, and the characteristics and decisions of the institutions employing them, lead to care variation among PLWD in the United States; and what behaviors could be modified, at both an organization and an individual level, to improve overall health care delivery and eliminate AD/ADRD disparities. This FOA encourages research on dementia care provision to individuals in populations that are underserved or vulnerable due to medical, geographic, and social factors.
The survey will be administered online, on an annual basis, to health care providers and their institutional representatives nationwide. The survey will seek to measure how PLWD are cared for by a wide range of professional providers, the interactions between professional care providers and institutions, and how provider/institution interactions impact the care provided to PLWD across institutional settings.
The survey will encompass multi-dimensional measures—including items related to training, compensation, payment models, care practices, and other procedures, as well as vignettes—and will be linked to administrative data (e.g., claims, electronic health records (EHR), payroll, and other relevant institutional and state-level data) to provide insight on costs, intensity of care provided, guideline-concordant care received by PLWD, and quality of care experienced by PLWD.
Funding Information
- Application budgets are limited to $16,200,000 in total costs each year.
- The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
- Local Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- Federal Governments
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession.
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