Current Projects
Safe medication use
A 5-year $3.5M NIH-funded trial led by Dr. Holden on the effect of the Brain Safe mobile app on older adults' exposure to high-risk medications, cognition, and quality of life.
A 5-year $3.3M NIH-funded trial led by Dr. Campbell on the effect of a pharmacist-based deprescribing intervention on older adult cognition and dementia risk.
A 4-year $4M AHRQ-funded project to establish the Brain Health Patient Safety Laboratory ("Brain Safety Lab") to reduce brain harm among older adults at Eskenazi Health safety-net system.
Dementia care and technology
A 2-year $424k NIH award (Holden/Werner co-PIs). Helping the helpers: User-centered technology to aid caregiver management of medications for people with ADRD.
A 2-year $427k NIH-funded trial led by co-PIs Holden and Boustani, testing the integration of the Brain CareNotes app into a coordinated dementia care program.
Two NIH funded studies totaling $575k to develop and test technologies for remotely monitoring the sleep and gait of individuals with Alzheimer's disease.
Heart failure self-management and technology
Two-year $300k AHRQ-funded grant led by Dr. Holden to design and evaluate a technology supporting older adult self-management of heart failure, leveraging data from their implanted devices.
NIH-funded study (Holden, PI) to develop and test an intervention to promote self-care behavior, knowledge, and activation among older patients with heart failure.
Emerging projects and pilots
The lab continues to develop new projects and conduct pilot testing of various interventions.
Past projects
A "middle-tech" project combining familiar objects such as paper and cloth with electronic components to provide effective, personalized, and easy to use interventions for older adults.
A rapid translational field research project to determine the usability of tablet computers for older adults with depression or mild cognitive impairment.
A community partnership to involve community stakeholders in the design and evaluation of technologies promoting a health aging brain.
This is a project to design and build an information management system for the network of people caring for an older adult diagnosed with a life-altering disease.
Technology to support older adults with cognitive impairment engaging in meaningful activities