Tammy Afifi, with Nancy Collins in Psychological and Brain Sciences, and with the CEO of the VR company Rendever, have been awarded a $3,809 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The project title is Improving Mental Health and Social Connectivity for Older Adults through Virtual Reality-Based Social Interventions. In this new grant, they are bringing VR into homes across the U.S. They are pairing with a home care provider, Right at Home, whose health aides will be trained how to use the VR with older adults with and without dementia. Their family members will also be taught how to use it (and we will be tracking both of their well-being over time). The older adults will be joining VR sessions remotely with older adults in senior living communities who are already using the Rendever VR platform.