Current Projects
Research is the complement to your classroom experience at ASU. At ASU’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, undergraduates and graduates alike are able to work with faculty on great challenges ranging in health and health care.
Listed below are active research projects being conducted by our renowned faculty. Students interested in participating with a research project should contact the principle investigator.
Creating and Sustaining Dementia-Capable Service Systems for People with Dementia and their Family Caregivers This collaboration among ADES-DAAS, ADRC, ASU, the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Arizona Caregiver Coalition is designed to help create a sustainability home and community-based dementia... Aging›Alzheimer Caregiving›Palliative Care Families |
Development & Evaluation of Social Media-based Testimonials Targeting Potential ADRD Research Participants within the Latino/Hispanic Community In partnership with Barrow Neurological Institute and through a series of focus groups, this project creates and evaluates digital recruitment clips and supercuts for outreach and recruitment... Aging Caregiving Population Health›Hispanic / Latino Population |
EPIC: A Group-based Intervention for Early-stage AD Dyads in Diverse This project addresses key limitations of previous studies by conducting an RCT with EPIC (Early-stage Partners in Care), an early-stage, group dyadic intervention, already offered in a pilot in... Aging›Alzheimer Caregiving›Long-term care Population Health›Hispanic / Latino Population |
GWEP (Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program) Empowering Caregiver Self-Care This initiative will focus on the development of training modules and provider sheets aimed at family caregivers with the theme of empowering caregiver self-care, as well as adapting an existing... Aging›Alzheimer Caregiving |
Music and Memory II This project replicates the initial Music & Memory project, an interprofessional collaboration with musicians from The Phoenix Symphony, staff from a long term facility, and ASU faculty from... Aging Caregiving Music Therapy |
Nevada’s ACL: Dementia Capability for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia This collaboration among ADSD, Nevada’s HCBCS system will create a sustainability home and community-based dementia capable services system grounded in evidence-based or evidence-informed services... Aging Caregiving Families |
Outreach and Recruitment Core - Arizona Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center P-30 Outreach and Recruitment Core Leader for the Arizona Alzheimer’s Disease Center fostering education, outreach and recruitment, particularly of diverse participants into the clinical core with an... Aging Caregiving Health Outreach Population Health›Underserved Populations |