Kohli, colleagues awarded NIH grant to train dementia care workforce

Nidhi Kohli, PhD, American Guidance Service, Inc. and John P. Yackel Professor of Educational Measurement and Assessment in the Department of Educational Psychology’s quantitative methods in education program, and her colleagues in the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health (SPH) have received an over $2.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for their project, “Training the Long-Term Services and Supports Dementia Care Workforce in Provision of Care to Sexual and Gender Minority Residents.”

This study is designed to help improve the care of sexual gender minority (SGM) with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) in long-term services and supports (LTSS) by conducting a rigorous study of the policies of LTSS agencies in Minnesota and by training the state’s LTSS workforce in SGM culturally responsive care. The study of policy will inform whether LTSS agencies need regulation or have already adopted SGM appropriate policies. The randomized controlled trial will rigorously test the effects of an in-person versus an online training program on improving SGM culturally responsive care.

Simon Rosser, PhD, professor in SPH’s Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, is the principal investigator, and Tetyana Shippee, PhD, associate professor in SPH’s Division of Health Policy and Management, is co-principal investigator on the project. Dr. Kohli will lead the quantitative methodology for the study.