EMBRACE Roybal Center

Establishing Mechanisms of Benefit to Reinforce the Alzheimer’s Care Experience AD/ADRD Roybal Center

Welcome to the Establishing Mechanisms of Benefit to Reinforce the Alzheimer’s Care Experience (EMBRACE) AD/ADRD Roybal Center.

The EMBRACE Roybal Center aims to advance research capacity for mechanistic-based home and community-based dementia care interventions. Through sponsorship from the National Institute on Aging, EMBRACE funds and supports trials rigorously evaluating complex, individualized dementia care interventions and provides educational resources to support researchers in developing and implementing behavioral intervention studies.

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The EMBRACE Mission
We leverage expertise in aging and long-term care research to:
 

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Engage and support

Engage and support investigators at all levels to test mechanistically driven dementia care interventions across the NIH Stage Model through research resources and consultation.

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Advance

Advance the science on mechanisms of action for dementia care interventions in home and community settings.

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Collaborate

Collaborate with the NIA Roybal Network to foster a vibrant scholarly community engaged in mechanism-driven dementia care research.

Be a part of the movement toward better health for everyone.

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For questions, contact EMBRACE@umn.edu.

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EMBRACE is a national research center led by Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Joseph Gaugler, University of Minnesota.
The EMBRACE AD/ADRD Roybal Center is supported by the National Institute On Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30AG086642. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.