The doctor did” co-design and evaluate” a culturally appropriate action to address the needs of LGBT caregivers.
An continuous,$ 262, 000 initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health is focused on the “unique demands of sexual and gender immigrants” who care for people with Alzheimer’s and memory.
The National Institute for Aging has provided$ 130, 000 in funding for the year 2025 in addition to a similar amount for the previous year’s funding for the development of a physical activity intervention to meet the Unique Needs of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM ) Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias ( AD/ADRD ) Caregivers.
In December 2024, the National Institute on Aging gave Indiana University Professor Andrew Pickett the sum.
President Donald Trump has attempted to reduce philosophical and specialized federal grants since taking office in January.
In the past month and a half, Pickett ( pictured ) did not respond to two emailed requests for comment. Additionally, the project’s listed coaches did not respond to a request for comment that had been sent in the previous two weeks. With a plea for more information, The College Fix reached out to Brea Perry, Nicole Werner, Jason Flatt, and Richard Holden, all of whom are members of Pickett’s “mentorship team.”
More details about the project’s strategy are provided in the grant’s “public health importance statement.”
The study” first looks at the special barriers and facilitators to regular physical activity” that LGBT carers of people with Alzheimer’s and related diseases encounter.
This study will inform the development of a historically related, appropriate, and sustainable physical activity intervention designed to address certain challenges faced by this susceptible population and provide timely insight into the unique, intersecting needs of” this group of caregivers.”
The project was criticized, but, by the study director for a health reform party.
Would No Harm’s director of research Ian Kingsbury finds it “scandalous” that this project has received national money.
According to Kingsbury,” physical majority caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s are hardly unique in terms of their skills or advantages in terms of physical exercise,” Kingsbury wrote in an email to The Fix. It’s shocking that the NIH directs tax money to “overtly social rather than health” research.
According to The Fix, nearly$ 3 million has been spent on transgender research only since Trump took office, as The Fix originally reported.
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Previous reports from The Fix suggested that these jobs are still receiving money because of a misunderstanding in the Trump administration’s executive order, which only “bans federal funding for projects” that promote “gender philosophy, ” rather than study that broadly examines these subjects.
Kingsbury claims that the “NIH is intellectually captured and has mostly abandoned its basic goals in the quest of woke social objectives” is another factor that keeps federal funds flowing to projects like this.
Kingsbury told The Fix,” If liberal contributors or organizations want to finance this kind of stuff, great. However, the citizens have no justification to foot the bill.
According to his Google Scholar website, Pickett, the Indiana University doctor working on this project, frequently research LGBT issues as well as weight problems.
In addition to these scientific papers,” Trans prejudice in game” and” Weight Stigma, Body-Inclusive Yoga, and a Model of Physical Activity for All” are two others.
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IMAGE CAPTURE AND CREDIT: Professor Andrew Pickett of Indiana University, Indiana University
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