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Engaging People with Dementia to Adapt a Tailored Driving Cessation Intervention for Primary Care

Award Number: K23AG095368
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/05/2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2031

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Engaging People with Dementia to Adapt a Tailored Driving Cessation Intervention for Primary Care - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This proposed K23 Career Development Award will establish family medicine clinician-researcher Dr. Hansmann as a successful independent researcher focused on comprehensively supporting people with dementia during complex life transitions like driving cessation. People with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (dementia) experience progressive cognitive and functional declines, which lead to complex life transitions. Current guidelines recommend that everyone with dementia should stop driving by the time they advance to a moderate stage of cognitive decline to protect the safety of the person with dementia and other road users. However, stopping driving dramatically reduces independence and is associated with social isolation, depression, and decreased physical function. Despite advances in evidence-based driving cessation resources, there are currently no standard clinical care pathways to support patients, caregivers, and their clinical teams to navigate patient-oriented care during and after driving cessation. There is an urgent need for scalable, pragmatic interventions that can be implemented across clinical contexts to (1) identify patients’ readiness for driving cessation during the early stages of dementia and (2) tailor communication and care planning to improve quality of life during and after driving cessation. To address this gap, the objective of this K23 proposal is to engage key partners—including people with dementia, caregivers, and clinical team members—to adapt driving cessation resources into a tailored clinical care pathway. Building on her health services research expertise and leveraging the exceptional research support at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, Dr. Hansmann will develop additional skills in human-centered participatory design, pragmatic clinical trials, and mixed methods to (1) co-design a clinical care pathway (Driving Decisions in Dementia) to support patients with dementia during driving cessation, (2) conduct a pilot clinical trial to evaluate feasibility, acceptability, and estimated effect size of Driving Decisions in Dementia in specialized memory care clinics, and (3) characterize context-specific processes and potential adaptations for implementing Driving Decisions in Dementia in primary care. The completion of this K23 will position Dr. Hansmann as an independent physician- scientist with expertise in complex behavioral intervention development and testing with a focus on supporting people with dementia through challenging life transitions such as driving cessation. This award will prepare Dr. Hansmann to successfully apply for a randomized controlled trial R01 to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of the Driving Decisions in Dementia clinical care pathway to improve decision quality and other patient-oriented outcomes for people with dementia. As a result of this work, we expect clinical care settings across specialized memory care and primary care contexts to be better prepared to support people with dementia in identifying what matters most to them and sustaining their quality of life through this complex life transition.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $173,124 )
2026	2026	UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM	21 N PARK ST STE 6301	MADISON	WI	53715	DANE	USA	Aging Research	000	1	8/4/2026	NEW	$173,124
														Subtotal = $173,124

Grand Total All Awards = $173,124

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Engaging People with Dementia to Adapt a Tailored Driving Cessation Intervention for Primary Care

Award Number: K23AG095368

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/05/2026

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2031

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