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.
Our Commitment to Inclusivity
The EMBRACE Roybal Center strives to create a community where every person feels welcome, valued, and able to succeed. We view diversity as a source of strength, creativity, and innovation and value the contributions of each person with respect for the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich our community.
Beyond this, we view diversity and equitable inclusion as inextricably linked to our goals as a team and research unit and understand the critical work of disrupting cycles of structural and systemic discrimination and exclusion to achieve these goals.