Lené Levy-Storms, social welfare professor at UCLA's Luskin Scool of Public Affairs, has received a grant from the Archstone Foundation, an affiliate of the American Public Health Association, to conduct a study: "Creating Caring Connections: An Interdisciplinary Intervention to Reduce Intergenerational and Intercultural Barriers to Communication among Caregivers for Persons with Dementia in Nursing Homes."
Levy-Storms will be testing the feasibility and preliminary outcomes of a communication-training intervention for caregivers of persons with dementia in nursing homes. She will be working at the Los Angeles Jewish Home in Reseda.
The $50,000 grant will help fund a one-year study that will combine two evidence-based communication training programs and pilot its feasibility. Successful findings will lay a foundation for a larger, randomized control trial of its effectiveness.
