# Roybal Translational Research Center to Promote Context-Specific Caregiving of Community-Dwelling Persons Living with Alzheimer's Disease or Related Disorders

> **NIH NIH P30** · EMORY UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $458,071

## Abstract

Abstract. The overall goal of the Pilot Core of the Center for Translational Research to Promote Context-
Specific Caregiving Mastery for Informal Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Persons Living with Alzheimer's
Disease or Related Disorders is to move intervention ideas aligned with the Center's consumer-based and
context-specific guiding principles successfully through development stages I-III toward real world imple-
mentation. Anchored in creative energy of the Center's Design Studio, the Pilot Core will manage an annual
pipeline of four processes designed to promote the “success” of pilot interventions: the filtering, selection,
support, and advancement of compelling ideas. These processes are meant to support the attainment of the
Core's three aims: Aim 1. Evaluate pilot intervention applications and select those with the greatest promise of
enhancing context-specific caregiving mastery through early stage interventions that are deemed to be of high
impact and significance. Aim 2. Provide oversight, mentoring, and consultation to ensure the successful
outcome and dissemination of Center-supported pilot intervention projects. Aim 3. Advance successfully
completed pilot projects to secure support for further stages of intervention development either through the
Center or through other sources (e.g., NIH research mechanisms). The filtering process is meant to encourage
the floating of pilot ideas from researchers drawn from the Center's networks and to guide the most promising
through the Center's Design Studio for the sharpening of ideas and the development of pilot proposals. The
selection process will involve Center Advisors (Expert, Local, and Consumer) in an NIH-type review of
submitted proposals, identifying the 2-4 pilots (principally, but not exclusively single-year Stage I projects) that
can be advanced for support, pending NIA review and approval. The support of pilot activities will involve
individual mentoring teams of Center leaders and Advisors meeting regularly (by phone or videoconference)
with each pilot investigator and quarterly meetings between the investigator and the Center leadership team to
monitor progress and provide guidance in addressing challenges that might occur in the course of pilot
implementation. The fourth process, pilot advancement, speaks to the key goal of the Center: ensuring that the
pilots, the kernels of ideas that are supported by the Center, move through stages of development and become
evidence-based interventions that can be widely disseminated. The advancement process begins at the point
of pilot implementation with the development of an individualized plan for moving forward to the next stage of
development. Within this plan, each investigator and her/his mentoring team periodically engage with the
Design Studio to conceptualize and re-conceptualize the strategy for a next-stage proposal. In its first year,
the Pilot Core will support the activities of two Stage I pilots, one involving a distance...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10470819
- **Project number:** 5P30AG064200-04
- **Recipient organization:** EMORY UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Drenna Waldrop
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $458,071
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-15 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10470819

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10470819, Roybal Translational Research Center to Promote Context-Specific Caregiving of Community-Dwelling Persons Living with Alzheimer's Disease or Related Disorders (5P30AG064200-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10470819. Licensed CC0.

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