Stimulating Research to Enhance Aging in Place: A Continuum of Home and Community-based Services

July 21-23, 2019

The goal of the AOTF workshop will be to establish several collaborative teams that will develop new research grant proposals designed to advance the evidence base for home and community-based services that support aging in place. Workshop participants will generate and prioritize novel research questions during the workshop and form research teams to subsequently write grant proposals to answer their chosen question. Each team will be asked to generate a plan that puts them on the path towards competitive grant submissions. For example, one team could decide to use existing pilot data and could establish an analytic plan for a manuscript that both justifies the need for further study and establishes a documented collaboration between researchers that would be needed in a grant application. Another team might identify a focused research question and establish plans to pursue institutional/internal pilot funding that would be needed for a larger grant. Ultimately, the goal is to use this networking opportunity to create new research teams that secure extramural funding to build the evidence base for aging in place, allowing older adults to fully engage in daily life roles and maintain or improve their quality of life.

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Participants (*Committee Member)

• Sajay Arthanat, PhD, OTR/L, ATP, Telehealth Practice Center. University of New Hampshire
• Tracy Chippendale, PhD, OTR/L, New York University
• Carrie Ciro*, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, University of Oklahoma
• Malcolm P. Cutchin, PhD, Wayne State University
• Chanee Fabius, PhD, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
• Beth Fields, PhD, OTR/L, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Heather Fritz, PhD, OTR/L, Wayne State University
• Vanessa Jewell, PhD, OTR/L, Creighton University
• Mary C. Lawlor*, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA, University of Southern California
• Danbi Lee, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, University of Washington
• Catherine Lysack*, PhD, Wayne State University
• Margaret McDonald, MSW, Visiting Nurse Services of New York
• Tracy M. Mroz*, PhD, OTR/L, University of Washington
• Elsa M. Orellano-Colon, PhD, MSc, OTR/L, ATP, University of Puerto Rico
• Melissa Park, PhD, OT/L, McGill University
• Catherine Piersol, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Jefferson Elder Care, Jefferson College of Rehabilitation Sciences (JCRS)
• Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, University of Maryland
• Juleen Rodakowski*, OTD, MD, OTR/L, University of Pittsburgh
• Shlomit Rotenberg, OT, PhD, Rotman Research Institute Baycrest
• Stacey Schepens Niemiec, PhD, OTR/L, University of Southern California
• Emily Somerville, OTD, OTR/L, Washington University in St. Louis
• Pamela Toto, PhD, OTR/L, BCG, FAOTA, University of Pittsburgh
• Jennifer Womack, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Organization Partners and Special Guests

• Ellie Daniels, MD, MPH, American Cancer Society, Inc.
• James Gibaldi, The Michael J. Fox Foundation
• C. Jean Hsieh, PhD, OT, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Sarah Ruiz, PhD, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
• Heather M. Snyder, PhD, Alzheimer's Association