Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Iowa Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Program - The Iowa Department of Public Health’s Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) Program proposes to implement Component 2 of CDC-RFA-DP-23-0010 through eight strategies with multi-faceted activities detailed in the Year 1 Work Plan. The Work Plan is structured around Iowa’s ADRD Strategic Plan (2022) which was developed under a CDC cooperative agreement for BOLD Core Capacity Building. The proposed project outcomes are: (1) Improved implementation of Iowa’s ADRD goals that are comprehensive across public health domains, ADRD topics, and prevention levels; (2) Increased awareness and understanding of ADRD topics among the general public, providers, and other professionals; and (3) Increased number of community-clinical linkages among health care systems and existing services, public health agencies, and community-based organizations, that will be realized through efforts organized as Strategies 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Throughout the five-year project period, special emphasis will be given to engaging and serving disparate populations and increasing health equity, while reaching Iowans across the state, both in urban and rural settings. The Department has the capacity and experience needed to serve all populations and communities in Iowa, and, through the ADRD Program, it will increase awareness and understanding in the general public, including disparate populations, providers and other professionals and organizations with messages of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. The Iowa proposed programming is based upon an award of $480,000 that will support the required Program Coordinator (1.0 FTE), Program Director (.25 FTE), Evaluator (.21 FTE), as well as Epidemiologist (.10 FTE), Education Coordinator (1.0 FTE) and Secretary (.35 FTE). This staff, along with the support of Alzheimer’s Association, Iowa Chapter staff (through contracted services) will assure the development, and use and measurement of the Iowa’s Implementation Plan, built to assure goals and recommendations of the CDC’s Healthy Brain Initiative State and Local Public Health Partnerships to Address Dementia: The 2018-2023 Road Map and the 2022 Iowa ADRD Strategic Plan are implemented and that measurable impacts are made during this five-year project period. The Iowa ADRD Coalition, currently engaged with a 50-member roster, will continue to support and inform the implementation of the state’s ADRD initiatives and will grow in its expertise through education provided through the program, but also in membership numbers as the program engages more people, especially those with ADRD lived experience and those with who are members of disparate communities. Implementation of the chosen strategies will make Iowa’s dementia resources more robust, accessible and efficient. Efforts will help reduce health disparities among Iowa’s underserved populations, and it will increase the linkages between communities and clinics. The Program will work to educate and empower the general public (including persons living with dementia and their caregivers) as well as physicians and other healthcare providers on available resources, ways to seek a diagnosis and strategies to support all three levels of prevention (primary, secondary and tertiary). Fostering collaboration between dementia-focused groups will ensure more Iowans are connected to services, and better data collection will inform future programmatic decisions and keep the Program pertinent and evidence-based. These strategies will also improve the sustainability of the ADRD Program, its projects and partnerships.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).