Interview by Claire Horne, Communications Specialist, UNC Center for Aging and Health. Adrian Austin is a pulmonary critical care physician, geriatrician, and delirium researcher at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He leads the UNC-CH working group of investigators (“I-DUNC”) for better delirium assessment and education. Adrian currently has two delirium-related pilot studies underway at UNC: […]
The NIDUS Pilots and Innovation Task Force is accepting proposals for pilot grants focused on delirium research, due on November 7, 2018. The Pilots and Innovation Task Force has identified three major themes of special interest for the pilot grants below, each representing a research area likely to have broad impact on the field. However, […]
$50,000 pilot funding opportunity for researchers interested in delirium The Network for Investigation of Delirium: Unifying Scientists is offering two $50,000 pilot grants for proposals related to delirium research. The purpose of these awards is to encourage innovative research that will advance investigation in delirium and lead to future grant funding. Early career investigators or […]
A study led by Louise Rose, PhD, RN, FAAN, of the University of Toronto Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, is seeking people who have experienced delirium and their family members to take part in a study. The study is titled “Development of core outcome sets for effectiveness trials of interventions to prevent and/or treat delirium” (Del-COrS) […]