Ab Brody

Ab Brody is Associate Professor of Nursing and Medicine, Associate Director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, and Founder of Aliviado. His work focuses on the intersection of geriatrics, palliative care, quality, and equity, seeking to improve the quality of care for older adults with serious illness wherever they reside. In Aliviado Health, Ab is transforming care for older adults and their caregivers in the community by helping community based organizations provide high quality, person-centered care and developing new models to meet these individuals' needs.

As faculty at NYU, he is currently the principal investigator of two NIH funded large-scale pragmatic clinical trials to improve the quality of care for persons with dementia and their caregivers living in the community. The first of these trials focus on improving care quality in home health, as part of a 3-site, 20 care team trial of Aliviado Dementia Care for Home Health, examining whether the program improves quality of life for both the person with dementia and their caregiver, and reduce hospitalization. The second, the HAS-QOL trial, focuses on implementing Aliviado Dementia Care for Hospice in 25 hospices nationwide, with the primary outcome of reducing inappropriate antipsychotic use that can lead to reduced function and quality of life. In addition to this work,

Ab is a nurse and nurse practitioner by training, and maintains an active practice on the Geriatric and Palliative Consult Services at NYU Langone Health.

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