Institutional / Academic Partner Memberships
The Adult Day Services (ADS) industry represents more than 5,000 centers around the country serving over 250,000 participants while providing respite care for hundreds of thousands of family caregivers. NADSA, its Members and Institutional/Academic Partners are collaborating on projects focused on several critical issues:
- Interventions for caregivers of people living with dementia, cognitive and/or physical disabilities.
- Comprehensive healthcare utilization and outcomes collection for participants and caregivers across the country.
- Supporting health equity, and vaccine access efforts for older adults and people with disabilities.
The Institutional/Academic Partner membership is open to educational organizations, nonprofits and research organizations. Benefits of this membership include:
- Promotion of NADSA-approved research projects and access to NADSA
members. - Full contact list of NADSA Members is provided one time per year.
- Potential collaboration and participation with NADSA in research/grant proposals.
Networking, access, and exposure with academic and research partners dedicated to ADS. - Promotion in NADSA’s virtual communications and online calendar.
- Educational proposal and/or poster sessions submissions for NADSA’s Annual Conference and educational events.
- Partnership Members are listed on the Institutional/Academic portal where a logo and write-up is posted.
- Social media postings as appropriate.
- Member rates as an exhibitor at the NADSA Annual Conference.
- Member rates for all professional development events and sponsorship opportunities with NADSA.
Annual Membership fees are $1,500. This fee entitles one person per membership, and additional individuals can be added for $75/year. To register, please click on the following link: Institutional/Academic Partner.
NADSA Institutional / Academic Partners
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