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AMDA Foundation/Pfizer QI Honorees Recognized |
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 Vol XXXIV, Apr '08
- Pasquale Frisina, PhD, Jewish Home & Hospital Life Care System, New York, NY: “Effects of Written Emotional Disclosure of Alzheimer’s Disease”
- Suzanne Gillespie, MD, RN, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY: “Improving Communication at Transition from the Skilled Nursing Facility to Emergency Department”
- Lené Levy-Storms, PhD, MPH, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA: “How to Communicate and “Connect” with Alzheimer’s: A Practical Strategy for Family Visitors of Relatives with Dementia”
“This award is important because it will enable me to complete a pilot study looking at an emotional disclosure paradigm in depressed Alzheimer’s disease patients. If the findings are positive, it could lead to an expanded study and related projects—such as using the tool with depressed Parkinson’s disease patients,” said Dr. Frisina. He added that this research is significant because this tool has never been tested with the elderly nursing facility population.
The AMDA Foundation/Pfizer QI awards support initiatives that focus on facility staff education, quality improvement programs, research on interventions and treatment, and health literacy to directly enhance the quality of care provided to patients in long term care settings. Proposals are accepted for a general quality improvement project or any one of five therapeutic areas: pain management, dementia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, or urinary incontinence. |
