Alzheimer's Research Studies

EPIC: Living Alone is a research project designed to assist people with early-stage memory loss who are living alone in the community, by providing early-stage education and skill-training sessions designed to reduce stress, enhance well-being, manage challenges, and plan for the future.

EPIC II (Early-Stage Partners in Care) is a research project designed to assist people with early-stage memory loss and their care partners by providing early-stage related education and skill-training sessions designed to reduce stress, enhance well-being, manage challenges, and plan for the future. Researchers will gather feedback from individuals about their experience to continue to improve programs for early-stage memory loss.

FIT-AD SMART Trial is a 12-month study that is testing the impact of various exercise types on cognitive and physical outcomes in older adults with early-stage Alzheimer's disease. A study partner is required to report on quality-of-life measures.

The USC Healthy Minds Research Volunteer Registry is comprised of individuals who are interested in helping research labs at the University of Southern California. USC researchers are working towards a greater understanding of how aging can affect physical, mental and emotional health. Our goal is to learn how we can maintain healthy minds and bodies across our lifespan.

The I-CARE2 Study is testing the effectiveness of a mobile, telehealth supported caregiver intervention aimed at providing support and training to caregivers to better manage behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Informal caregiving for persons with dementia (PWD) who are living at home typically involves multiple caregivers, but limited research has been done to examine the full scope of caregiving experienced by the many family members and/or friends involved in caregiving for PWD in the community. This novel study aims to characterize informal caregiving networks of PWD over time to help identify strategies for alleviating caregiver burden.

The Learning Skills Together study is a Zoom-delivered complex care training for family caregivers to persons living with dementia.

• As more people live to advanced old age it is critical to gain a greater understanding of their health status and functional abilities during their life in relation to aging and cognition as a whole. Knowledge gained from the Longevity Study will have a great impact in our understanding of the continual aging spectrum.
• This study is currently enrolling individuals, who are 50 years old and above who are willing to share information about their life.  There is a wait list to enroll into the study with the oldest individuals called first.

The overall goal of this NIH funded project is to adapt a validated digital health intervention called Medication Education, Decision Support, Reminding, and Monitoring (MEDSReM) system (IRB: 22546), currently designed to improve hypertension medication adherence in cognitively normal older adults, to support self-management of hypertension medication for persons with mild cognitive impairment (PwMCI).

The overall goal of this NIH funded project is to adapt a validated digital health intervention called Medication Education, Decision Support, Reminding, and Monitoring (MEDSReM) system (IRB: 22546), currently designed to improve hypertension medication adherence in cognitively normal older adults, to support self-management of hypertension medication for persons with mild cognitive impairment (PwMCI).