About StARS
The State Alzheimer’s Research Support (StARS) Center assists states and partner organizations in examining and advancing the accessibility, affordability, and effectiveness of integrated/coordinated dementia care services and sharing best practices and policies across the U.S.
Our team engages with state partners (i.e., Stars States) and others through the following activities:
✓ Establish partnerships to identify existing coordinated/integrated dementia care services and available data sources within states.
✓ Support dementia care innovation grant projects across the StARS Center 5-year funding period to identify effective programs and policies;
✓ Provide resources to assist development of within- and across-state data infrastructure to evaluate dementia care services and policies.
✓ Implement a multifaceted dissemination strategy to promote best practices in delivery of dementia care and in identifying, linking, and sharing relevant data sources to promote evaluation.
The StARS Center is organized into the following Cores:
- The Administrative and Dissemination Core, which organizes and governs all Center activities
- The Partnership and Engagement Core, which strengthens and supports new, within-state partnerships and the development of research innovation projects to advance dementia care services
- The Research Innovation Core, which will fund grants and support states to evaluate integrated/coordinated dementia care services within and eventually across states
- The Data Core, which will create a data warehouse and data governance plan to support the rigorous evaluation of state dementia programs and policies and assist grant projects in completing their objectives
- The Health Equity Team, which ensures that all Center activities incorporate an approach that is inclusive of all people and localities within states.