The Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, working in collaboration with New York University (NYU), has received more than $4.2 million in funding from the National Institutes on Aging (NIA) to develop the Resource Center for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research in Asian and Pacific Americans (RCASIA). The center’s goal is to use the five-year grant to advance behavioral, social and economic research related to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias especially in older Asian and Pacific Americans.
“RCASIA is uniquely positioned to support the development of promising early career scientists to engage Asian and Pacific American communities, and to curate validated tools important in the detection of Alzheimer’s and dementia in older Asian and Pacific Americans who are often underserved,” said William Hu, interim director of the Center for Healthy Aging at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. To read the full story.