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Feb 26, 2025

Addressing the Opioid Crisis Among Older Americans: Strategies for Prevention, Treatment, and Supporting Families Affected by Addiction

Testimony presented before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging on February 26, 2025.
Research

Jan 30, 2025

Factors Shaping the Future of China's Military

In this report, the authors analyze China's current population dynamics to consider how demographic changes will affect the People's Liberation Army and China's broader society and to improve understanding of China's near-term military strategy.
Expert Insights

Jan 23, 2025

Novel Electronic Health Record Strategies to Identify Frailty Among Hospitalized Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions

Here, we discuss current gaps for using the electronic frailty index (eFI) to identify frail older adults living with multiple chronic conditions (MCC), and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to enhance eFI accuracy.
Research

Dec 9, 2024

Buprenorphine Prescribing Practices for Older Adults in 2019 and 2020

This retrospective observational study using 2019-2020 IQVIA Real World Data-Longitudinal Prescriptions data describes buprenorphine treatment patterns among older adults and prescribing clinician specialties.
Press

Dec 3, 2024

Cognitive Ability, Functional Limitations, and Physical Health Predict Dementia Later in Life

The risk of developing dementia later in life is strongly predicted by a person's cognitive ability, functional limitations, and physical health as many as 20 years before onset of the illness.
Research

Dec 3, 2024

Identifying Early Predictors of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in a Large Nationally Representative U.S. Sample

In this report, the authors evaluate the predictive power of 181 potential risk factors for dementia and cognitive impairment using validated probabilistic measures from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study.
Research

Nov 26, 2024

"Society Needs to Know How We Feel": Understanding Anti-Asian Hate Experiences and Service Barriers Among Chinese Older Adults in Los Angeles County, California

Because of the surge in anti-Asian hate and the limited understanding of perceptions of anti-Asian hate related services, the authors examine mental health services intended to help victims of anti-Asian hate incidents among older Chinese adults.
Research

Nov 1, 2024

Evaluation of the Impact Stratification Score in a Sample of Older Adult Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions

This study presents evidence that the ISS is a sufficiently unidimensional and reliable measure that may be useful in characterizing health-related disease burden among older adult ambulatory patients with two or more chronic conditions.
Research

Oct 29, 2024

A Dynamic Microsimulation Model for Aging and Health in Taiwan: The Taiwan Future Elderly Model: Forecasting Future Population with Dementia and Functional Limitations and Its Implications for Formal Long-Term Care Capacity

Adapts the U.S. Future Elderly Model using Taiwanese data to create the Taiwan Future Elderly Model (TFEM) to provide a better policy planning tool for Taiwan in the face of an aging society.
Research

Oct 23, 2024

Personal Physician Access by Preferred Language Among Medicare Advantage and Medicare Fee-for-Service Older Adults

We used data from the 2022 MCAHPS survey to update our understanding of patterns in having a personal physician among Medicare enrollees.
Research

Oct 14, 2024

County-level Racial Bias Is Associated with Worse Care for White and Especially Black Older US Adults: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

In county-level models, higher pro-white implicit bias was associated with lower immunisation rates and worse scores for some patient experience measures for black and white adults as well as larger-magnitude black-white disparities.
Research

Oct 8, 2024

Improving the Identification of and Responses to Victims of Elder Mistreatment

Results of a workshop conducted by RAND and RTI International indicate that the greatest need in the area of elder mistreatment is research to support evidence-based, culturally appropriate approaches and widespread adoption of effective programs.

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Understanding Meno-Fog: Navigating Brain Fog During Menopause

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Addressing the Opioid Crisis Among Older Americans: Strategies for Prevention, Treatment, and Supporting Families Affected by Addiction

Factors Shaping the Future of China's Military

Novel Electronic Health Record Strategies to Identify Frailty Among Hospitalized Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions

Buprenorphine Prescribing Practices for Older Adults in 2019 and 2020

Cognitive Ability, Functional Limitations, and Physical Health Predict Dementia Later in Life

Identifying Early Predictors of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in a Large Nationally Representative U.S. Sample

"Society Needs to Know How We Feel": Understanding Anti-Asian Hate Experiences and Service Barriers Among Chinese Older Adults in Los Angeles County, California

Evaluation of the Impact Stratification Score in a Sample of Older Adult Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions

A Dynamic Microsimulation Model for Aging and Health in Taiwan: The Taiwan Future Elderly Model: Forecasting Future Population with Dementia and Functional Limitations and Its Implications for Formal Long-Term Care Capacity

Personal Physician Access by Preferred Language Among Medicare Advantage and Medicare Fee-for-Service Older Adults

County-level Racial Bias Is Associated with Worse Care for White and Especially Black Older US Adults: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

Improving the Identification of and Responses to Victims of Elder Mistreatment

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