Center Outcomes

8Pilots that won next-stage funding
2Applications in review
7Institutions beyond Emory
26Publications to date

Return on investment

Where Center pilots went next

The Center’s purpose is to move behavioral interventions along the NIH Stage Model. The clearest measure of that is how many pilots go on to secure independent funding.

Stage 1b interventions that received support to move to the next stage

Center-funded pilots that went on to win independent next-stage funding.

PY2Funded

Kylie Meyer, PhD

Case Western

Learning Skills Together: behavioral intervention to facilitate caregiver mastery with complex care tasks

NIA R01AG077554

PY2Funded

Carole White, PhD, RN

UT San Antonio

Translation and testing of the Learning Skills Together intervention to build confidence among Latino family caregivers

Retirement Research Foundation

PY2Funded

Jori Fleisher, MD, MSCE

Rush University

Learning to PERSEVERE: peer mentor support and caregiver education in Lewy body dementia

NIA R01AG079128

PY2Funded

Carolyn Clevenger, DNP

Emory University

Mastering the challenges of dementia family caregiving in a time of COVID-19 (administrative supplement)

NIA R01AG082833

PY3Funded

Elizabeth Rhodus, PhD, OTR/L

University of Kentucky

Improving person-environment fit of community-residing older adults with dementia through assessment and individualized intervention

NIA K23AG075262-01

PY4Funded

James Rilling, PhD and Kenneth Hepburn, PhD

Emory University

Effect of cognitive empathy training on dementia caregivers: testing a photo-journaling intervention to enhance caregivers’ cognitive empathy for the person they care for

NIA R01AG087216

Interventions developed with Center consultation that received next-stage support

Projects the Center advised rather than funded, which then secured their own awards.

PY3Funded

Fayron Epps, PhD, RN

Emory University

Caregiving While Black: Live — adds a synchronous group component to a program building mastery in African American dementia caregivers

NIA R21AG083366

PY3Funded

Jordan Lewis, PhD

University of Minnesota

Peer mentoring to promote Native American dementia caregiver mastery

NIA 1R01AG082074

Interventions developed with Center consultation that have applied for next-stage support

Applications in the review pipeline.

PY1In review

Yuri Jang, PhD

University of Southern California

Building on results from R21AG071798, a proposed multi-city RCT to test K-Savvy for low-English-literacy Korean caregivers

NIA R01 proposal submitted July 2023

PY3In review

Fayron Epps, PhD, RN

Emory University

Producing a fully asynchronous online Tele-Savvy program

NIA R01 submitted 02/2023; scored outside the payline, resubmitted 10/06/2023

Summary table

Return on Roybal project investment

Return on Roybal project investment table

Selected papers

Publications from Center work

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