Welcome to The State Alzheimer’s Research Support (StARS) Center
Coordinated and integrated care programs for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias and their caregivers are growing, but due to data integration challenges, information about their effectiveness is limited.
StARS Center assists states and state partner organizations in expanding data resource capabilities to facilitate the examination of accessibility, affordability, and effectiveness of state-based integrated and coordinated dementia care services, programs and policies. Our goal is to share evaluation results and best practices within and across states nationally.
The StARS Center Mission
Provide expertise and resources in dementia care to:
PARTNER
Help states strengthen and develop new within-state partnerships related to services for persons living with dementia and their care partners, and identify available data sources within states
SUPPORT
Support states and their partners in conducting innovative projects using linked and potentially sharable data sets to evaluate integrated and coordinated dementia care programs, policies, and services.
BUILD
Assist states in developing data capabilities and infrastructure that will offer unique and powerful opportunities to conduct within- and across-state analyses of dementia care services
DISSEMINATE
Share knowledge with states, key agencies, communities, and partners to promote best practices in delivery of dementia care and in identifying, linking, and sharing relevant data sources to promote rigorous evaluation.
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StARS is a national research center led by Joseph Gaugler (University of Minnesota), Quincy Samus (Johns Hopkins University), and Regina Shih (Emory University). It is supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U54AG089300. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.