Aging
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Seminar Series – Maggie Shi
Monitoring for Waste: Evidence from Medicare Audits
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COVID-19 Hospitalization and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Racially and Ethnically Diverse Persons Living with Dementia
Community-dwelling persons living with dementia (PLWD) are vulnerable to COVID-19 infection, severity, and mortality due to the high prevalence of comorbidities, reliance on caregivers, and potential inability to employ risk reduction measures, among other factors.
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2023 Clinical Trial Recruitment Lab (CTRL) Request for Pilot Project Proposals
CTRL is seeking proposals for pilot projects that test strategies and solutions designed to address barriers to recruitment for Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials.
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Applying for the 2023-2024 Roybal Center for Behavioral Interventions in Aging Pilot Projects
The Roybal Center for Behavioral Interventions in Aging seeks proposals for pilot projects that involve randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
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People are living longer, which brings obvious benefits as well as considerable challenges — from Alzheimer’s and other age-related diseases to increased injuries, disabilities and poverty risks. Policymakers around the world rely on Schaeffer Center research and modeling tools for finding ways to help keep people as healthy as possible throughout their lives.
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Interdisciplinary Panel Offers Solutions to Improve Recruitment for Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials
Experts from the private and public sectors convened a panel to improve recruitment for Alzheimer’s clinical trials.
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Recommendations To Address Key Recruitment Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trials
An advisory panel of experts convened in 2020 to assess the critical challenges facing recruitment in Alzheimer’s clinical trials and develop a set of recommendations to overcome them.
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The Moderating Role of Race and Ethnicity in the Relationship Between Negative Family Interactions and Mental Health Among Older Adults
This study examines whether the association between negative family interactions and mental health outcomes varies by race and ethnicity.
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Addressing Challenges to Alternative Payment Models for New Alzheimer’s Disease Therapies for US Commercial Payers
Schaeffer Center experts propose two different types of payment models applicable to disease-modifying therapies in Alzheimer’s disease, and suggest four strategies to overcome challenges in their implementation.
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Quality of Survey Responses at Older Ages Predicts Cognitive Decline and Mortality Risk
It is widely recognized that survey satisficing, inattentive, or careless responding in questionnaires reduces the quality of self-report data.
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COVID-19 and Psychological Distress: Racial Differences Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
This study examines the interplay between perceptions of the COVID-19 outbreak as a threat to one’s day-to-day life, race, and psychological distress among middle-aged and older men and women.