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New $81M NIH grant will help U.S. answer urgent need for better dementia care

sarah JonasAnnouncement

Fueled by new five-year funding expected to total $81 million from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, a multi-institution team will work to improve understanding of the health care workforce that cares for people with dementia, through surveys and other methods that will produce data for clinicians, researchers, policymakers and others to use.

Nobody finds the Alzheimer’s Germ in $1 Million Challenge, but eight researchers split $200K, says Dr. Leslie Norins of Alzheimer’s Germ Quest

sarah JonasFeature

There is now keen interest in deeper investigation of infectious agents as the trigger of Alzheimer’s disease