Hospice News September 20, 2024
As the U.S. population ages nationwide, seniors have been vastly underrepresented in clinical trials.
This is particularly true for people living in the nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes. Fortunately, due to a recent grant from the National Institutes of Health, that could soon change.
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA) has granted a $15.5 million award toward the team at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute. The grant, spread out over a five-year period, will be put toward the team’s creation of a national network structure that seeks to include more nursing home residents in clinical trials.
The team is currently developing the program from the grant, titled NEXT STEPs (Nursing Home EXplanatory...
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