ASU Roybal Center
Our Mission
Living alone has emerged as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). A third of community-dwelling older adults with ADRD live alone, but there are limited interventions to help them live alone safely and for as long as they desire. The goal of the Arizona State University Roybal Center is to develop an infrastructure and conduct clinical trials of MoBC-driven, technology-enabled interventions to delay ADRD and improve quality of life (QoL) in older adults living alone with cognitive decline.
Learn about the NIA Roybal Centers
What is a Roybal Center?
The goal of the Roybal Center program is the translation and integration of basic behavioral and social research findings into interventions to improve the lives of older people and the capacity of institutions to adapt to societal aging. The National Institute on Aging’s Division of Behavioral and Social Research currently supports fifteen Roybal Centers, funded through RFA-AG-19-006 and
RFA-AG-19-007, as well as a Coordinating Center, funded through RFA-AG-19-008. Roybal Centers are structured within the conceptual framework of the multidirectional, translational NIH Stage Model to produce potent and implementable principle-driven behavioral interventions.
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Current Funding Opportunities
The ASU Roybal Center seeks applications to conduct NIH Stage IB–IV randomized controlled clinical trials of mechanism of behavioral change (MoBC)-driven, technology-enabled behavioral and lifestyle interventions for older adults living alone with cognitive decline.
Total Costs (direct + indirect costs): up to $240,000 in total costs may be requested over a 2-year project period. Awards will be made contingent on the budget being sufficient to conduct the proposed work, accounting for indirect costs. Applicants are strongly encouraged to seek flexibilities in indirect costs for these awards.
Proposed trials should rigorously test the ASU Roybal Center’s Conceptual Framework (Exhibit 1) and be designed to support future competitive funding applications (e.g., R01) for advancement to the next Stage of research.