We’re excited to welcome you to this innovative project, “Interprofessional Curriculum Approach to Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias”. Our goal is to equip the next generation of health care providers with skills to address Alzheimer’s and other dementias through facilitator guides, videos and classroom activities for health care students. The curriculum was piloted at The University of Texas at Austin in Spring 2025 with 58 undergraduate and graduate students across diverse health care programs.
We are looking for Champions to partner with us! If you are a UT faculty member interested in using this curriculum as a part of your coursework in Spring 2026, Summer 2026 or Fall 2026, please reach out to me at alyssa.aguirre@austin.utexas.edu.
Click here to read the full Curriculum Pilot Evaluation Report.
This $1.1 Million grant, which has been funded over 3 years, is led by Alyssa Aguirre (Dell Medical School) and Jung Kwak (School of Nursing). The project is a comprehensive, innovative curriculum development project focused on promoting and enhancing interprofessional education (IPE) in dementia care.
This project has many collaborations, including The University of Texas at Austin Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education, the National Alzheimer’s Association and the Department of State Health Services Alzheimer’s Disease Program. They are grateful to their Clinical Research Program Coordinator, Sydney Silverman, for her ongoing support, and KD Oppong, GRA.
This innovative curriculum has been presented at the 10th Annual Health Care Conference at The University Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas in April 2025; national conference Nexxus Summit in September 2025, and the international Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA in November 2025.
