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Study: Dementia Diagnoses Increased after Medicare Risk Adjustment
The change to Medicare Advantage payments could incentivize improvements in dementia detection, but also raises concerns about inappropriate overdiagnosis.
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Paying for Advance Care Planning in Medicare: Impacts on Care and Spending Near End of Life
Paying for advance care planning services can be promising in improving patients’ quality of life at end of life (EOL) while lowering EOL spending, especially for patients most vulnerable to receiving aggressive EOL care.
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Does Medicare Advantage Deliver Better Care for Persons Living With Dementia Than Traditional Medicare?
With data available from CMS on all Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in private plans and traditional Medicare, researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center are driving new research on how payment structures impact the care of persons living with dementia.
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Privatizing Responsibility for Old Age Security
Projections of the solvency of Social Security paint a dire picture, with the Social Security Trust Fund reaching empty by 2033. shutter
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Cognitive Function, Activity Meaningfulness, and Social Engagement Among Older Adults With Dementia
The research highlights the importance of sustaining both cognitive function and motivational factors to promote social engagement among older adults with dementia.
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Parental Divorce in Childhood and the Accelerated Epigenetic Aging for Earlier and Later Cohorts: Role of Mediators of Chronic Depressive Symptoms, Education, Smoking, Obesity, and Own Marital Disruption
Social and environmental contexts can shape these influences over time.
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Immune Cells Are Associated with Mortality: the Health and Retirement Study
The research findings support the idea that an aging immune system is associated with short-term mortality independent of age-related inflammation or other age-related measures of physiological dysfunction.
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Eligibility Rates among Racially and Ethnically Diverse US Participants in Phase 2 and Phase 3 Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Randomized Trials of Lecanemab and Elenbecestat in Early Alzheimer Disease
Differential eligibility may contribute to underrepresentation of some minoritized racial and ethnic groups in early AD trials. Amyloid biomarker eligibility is a requirement to confirm the diagnosis of AD and for treatment with amyloid-lowering drugs and differed among racial and ethnic groups.
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Epidemiology of Mortality Attributed to Falls in Older Adults in the US, 1999–2020
The age-adjusted mortality rate (AAMR) of falls among adults aged 65 years or older rose nationally from 29.4 to 69.4 per 100,000 from 1999 to 2020.
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Podcast: Jack Chapel on Health Trends in a Shrinking Middle Class
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jack Chapel, a PhD candidate in economics at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, about a new study examining the worsening health and economic trends for Americans with modest resources nearing retirement.
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