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Jun 26, 2025
Duration 29:32
Research
Dec 7, 2022
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Research Summary
Dec 3, 2024
This brief describes a series of RAND studies that examine predictors of cognitive impairment; the benefits of early detection and advanced planning; patients’ demand for care; and the capacity of the U.S. health care system to deliver care.
The authors of this report describe a study examining whether older individuals with dementia and their families take action after formal or informal diagnoses and subsequent outcomes related to life satisfaction, depression, wealth, and well-being.
Jun 5, 2024
RAND researchers study the social, economic, physical, and mental health and well-being impacts of aging and longevity.
Tool
May 22, 2024
This tool is a cleaned, easy-to-use, and streamlined data product containing information from the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal household survey that facilitates research into different aspects of population aging in the United States.
May 1, 2024
This study compares performance of three claims-based algorithms among Medicare beneficiaries. Frailty scores were added to baseline regression models to predict outcomes measured in the following year.
Apr 17, 2024
Depressive symptoms are common in knee osteoarthritis, and may exacerbate pain severity or impact efficacy of analgesics. The aim was to assess whether oral analgesic effectiveness in knee osteoarthritis varies by fluctuations in depressive symptoms.
Feb 21, 2024
Older people express higher life satisfaction despite worse health, which is called the "Paradox of well-being." The paper shows the resolution of the paradox: individuals with higher life satisfaction live longer.
This paper analyzes the health status of successive cohorts of 54- to 60-year-old U.S. individuals born between 1934 and 1959, and uses a rich set of health indicators to forecast trends and inequalities in life expectancies.
This paper examines trends in health inequalities between 1992 and 2016, observed at various ages between 55 and 89, which may serve as an early indicator for the future evolution of mortality inequalities.
This paper analyzes how computerization affected the labor market outcomes of older workers between 1984 and 2017. Older workers started using computers later than younger workers, leading to a temporary decrease in wages and employment.
Feb 19, 2024
This chapter surveys recent research on mortality and health expectations, such as nursing home use, out-of-pocket medical expenditures, substance use, dementia, cancer, HIV infections, and other health outcomes.
This paper presents estimates of the prevalence of dementia in the United States from 2000 to 2016 by age, sex, race and ethnicity, education, and a measure of lifetime earnings.
