The EMBRACE Roybal Center offers robust support to advance research capacity for mechanistic-based home and community-based dementia care intervention trials. Our team actively engages researchers through a range of activities:
- We disseminate and solicit applications for funding within programmatic focus areas.
- We offer individualized pre-submission consultation.
- We select and support 2-4 trials per year that identify, measure, and test mechanisms of home and community-based dementia care interventions.
- We provide post-award consultation and support to EMBRACE investigators.
- We develop resources and host monthly training sessions and meetings to support completion of each trial’s aims and NIH stage advancement, as well as general advancement of AD/ADRD research in the community.
- We conduct a robust evaluation of EMBRACE to ensure appropriate progress of supported trials.
Research Priorities
EMBRACE’s major programmatic foci include trials that:
- Identify testing mechanisms of action of interventions that target any/all of the following:
- Individuals living with AD/ADRD,
- The living environment,
- The family/social network/provider,
- The neighborhood and community.
- Evaluate interventions that tailor on various factors (e.g., needs, care challenges, cultures, strategies etc).
- Evaluate care interventions in home and community settings.