Aging
Our work in Aging
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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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Cost-Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Care in Mild to Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States: A Modeling Study
Multidisciplinary care (MDC) programs have been proposed as a way to alleviate the cost and morbidity associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the US. Schaeffer fellow Eugene Lin estimates that a Medicare-funded MDC program could improve health outcomes.
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Change in Cardiometabolic Risk Among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study
Blacks experience greater multi-system physiological dysregulation, or cumulative biological risk, which is associated with poor cardiometabolic health and mortality. In this study, the researchers assess race differences in change in risk over four years among older whites, blacks and Hispanics.
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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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The Role of Clinics in Determining Older Recent Immigrants’ Use of Health Services
This study examines whether the setting in which older recent immigrants receive care (i.e., health clinic, emergency room or doctor’s office) explains delays in care.
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Raising the Social Security Entitlement Age: Implications for the Productive Activities of Older Adults
Researchers evaluated the economic impact of older adults and the value of their unpaid, productive activities and financial gifts to family.
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Stress, Self-Regulation, and Context: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Survey
In this study we use a novel instrument designed to explicitly measure the self-regulatory motivations and perceived effectiveness of eight health-related self-regulatory behaviors
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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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