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Principal Investigator: Jasmine Travers Altizer
Organization: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Fiscal Year: 2024
Award: $192,629
Funding agency: National Institute on Aging
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The disproportionate rise in nursing home (NH) use among Black and Latino persons living with dementia
(PLWD) reflects the inadequacy of existing programs and policies to support aging in place for the most
vulnerable. Enabling aging in the community and preventing avoidable NH placements is widely considered a
priority by federal, state, and local entities along with families and older adults. Yet, it is unclear what is needed
to support Black and Latino PLWD to remain in the community. While there are many plausible next steps to
addressing this poorly understood problem, developing an instrument to identify which unmet needs are
disproportionately driving avoidable NH placements is an important actionable step in reducing disparities among
Black and Latino PLWD. The objectives of this 5-year proposed project are to 1) develop and test the feasibility,
acceptability, reliability, and validity of an assessment instrument aimed at addressing the unmet needs that
drive Black and Latino PLWD to experience avoidable NH placements at greater rates than their White
counterparts using an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design, and 2) translate preliminary
findings onto the public agenda as a policy issue. Aim 1 will use qualitative interviews to describe the unmet
needs driving these placements. An integrative analysis of qualitative findings derived from Aim 1 will inform an
unmet needs assessment instrument, IN-HOME (Identifying Needs to Help Older adults Maintain Everyday
community living), that will be developed, refined and piloted in Aim 2 and psychometrically tested in Aim 3.
Preliminary findings from this study will be used to generate actionable, evidence-based policy recommendations
to address disparities in NH placements. Aligned with NIA’s strategic priorities to address disparities experienced
by minority older adults with Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Dementias (ADRD), this study will form the basis
for a subsequent R01 that will tailor IN-HOME for community-dwelling Black and Latino PLWD and investigate
which actionable unmet needs place them at greatest risk for NH placements.
The candidate, Dr. Jasmine Travers, PhD, MHS, is a gerontological nurse practitioner and assistant
professor at New York University (NYU) Rory Meyers College of Nursing. The long-term goal of Dr. Travers is
to build an independent research career focused on developing innovative approaches to eliminate disparities
in access to and quality of person-centered long term care experienced by Black and Latino PLWD through the
use of mixed methods. Under a team of exemplary mentors and scientific advisors with expertise in gerontology,
ADRD, mixed-methods, policy, survey design, and psychometric evaluation, Dr. Travers will build on her
preliminary work on disparities in access to community long-term care to accomplish training goals in primary
research involving vulnerable PLWD, mixed methods, policy, and leadership development. NYU provides an
exceptional environment for the completion of the proposed research and for Dr. Travers who has already begun
to emerge as a leading disparities researcher in the field of aging and long-term care.
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