Lifespan Health and Aging
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Education and Psychosocial Functioning Among Older Adults: 4-Year Change in Sense of Control and Hopelessness
In this study, researchers found a cumulative advantage of higher levels of education for psychosocial functioning in older adults.
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Will California Be Ready? Implementing Programs for Serious Illness
National and state experts examined California’s readiness to meet the needs of patients with serious illness going forward and trends in this population.
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Accelerating Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Innovations from the Research Pipeline to Patients
Goldman, Fillit, and Neumann outline policy options that would lead to more innovation.
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Impact of Inequality on the Future Elderly: Policy Tools and Actions
Experts from the Roybal Center and OECD countries will come together to discuss policies for better and more equal health and economic outcomes in the retirement years.
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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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Southern California Health Care Summit: Strategies for Improving the Affordability of High-Quality Care and Coverage
The USC Schaeffer Center and the National Coalition on Health Care are bringing together a distinguished group of health care experts to discuss advances in practice and policy that can improve the affordability of health care – for patients and families, employers, public and private payers, and providers.
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Schaeffer Researcher Arthur Stone Tackles the Big Question of What is the Ideal Age
The WSJ interviews Professor Stone about his research on well-being and age.
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Lifetime Consequences of Early-Life and Midlife Access to Health Insurance: A Review
The researchers reviewed 112 experimental or quasi-experimental studies on the effects of health insurance prior to people becoming eligible for Medicare on a broad set of outcomes.
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Policy Approaches to the Opioid Crisis, Featuring Remarks from Sir Angus Deaton, Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster, and Professor Bertha K. Madras
On Friday, November 3, the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy will host a conference on how public policy can address the opioid epidemic.
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Projecting Diabetes Prevalence among Mexicans Aged 50 Years and Older: The Future Elderly Model-Mexico (FEM-Mexico)
This study estimated the future prevalence of diabetes among Mexico’s older adults to assess the current and future health and economic burden of diabetes.
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The Long-Term Benefits of Quality Early Childcare for Disadvantaged Mothers and their Children
This post discusses research on the life-cycle consequences of comprehensive early childcare programs.