Primary Recipient

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Amount

$319,843.00

Award Date

5/20/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The focus of this project is to develop the formative structures and processes needed to test the efficacy of hand feeding versus tube feeding in persons with late-stage dementia through a larger randomized controlled R01 study. Feeding among persons with