Collaborating to Create a Preference Tool for Older Adults With Dementia
The DMAR project is a collaborative effort that involves the input of those this project seeks to help — older adults with dementia and their family caregivers. Together, in collaboration with our partners, we will develop a tool to identify older adult preferences related to their transitions in supportive care. We are adapting the tool as we gather feedback from study participants and DMAR Community Advisory Board members. The DMAR Community Board includes individuals and experts from the community, community-based organizations, and academic departments.
Feedback from and collaboration with our project partners are essential to creating a tool that will be accessible to people with dementia given their unique needs.
Thank you to the partners who make this project possible.
DMAR Community Advisory Board
Basia Belza, PhD, RN
UW School of Nursing and UW Health Promotion Research Center
Clara Berridge, PhD
UW School of Social Work
Margaret Boddie
Catholic Community Services
African American Elders Program
Program Manager
Shari Crossland, MSW
Northaven Senior Living
Social Worker
G De Castro
Asian Counseling and Referral Service
Aging and Adult Services
Director
Paige Denison
Sound Generations
Health & Wellness and Project®Enhance
Director
Erica Farrell, MSW
Alzheimer’s Association
Clinical Manager
Barak Gaster, MD
UW Division of General Internal Medicine
Primary Care Physician
Joy and Jack Glover
Community Members
Jullie Gray, MSW, LICSW, CMC
Aging Wisdom
Principal Certified Care Manager
Karen Koenig
Formerly Old Friends Club
Senior Living Expert
Mariel Torres Mehdipour, MPH
Public Health – Seattle and King County
Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention
Section Manager
Gloria Puurveen, MA, PhD
University of British Columbia-Okanagan
School of Nursing
Project Manager and Knowledge Translation Lead
Maggie Ramirez, MS, PhD
UW Department of Health Systems and Population Health
Assistant Professor
Janet Salsbury, MSW
Formerly Northaven Senior Living
Senior Living Expert
Lauri Warfield-Larson, COO, OTR/L, NHA
Horizon House
Chief Operating Officer
Barbara Womack, BSN, MN
Catholic Community Services
African American Elders Program
Home Health Nurse
The Decision-Making in Alzheimer’s Research (DMAR) project is made possible thanks to $4 million in funding (grant number R01-AG066957) from the National Institute on Aging.