Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias

Women's Health

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Advancing Women's Health Requires Better Evidence
For decades, advances in health and health care have had a bias toward the male body. By shifting the focus of research to women's bodies and building out this base of evidence on women's health, scientists and doctors can improve health outcomes and overall quality of life for women, all while also saving money.
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Apr 10, 2023
OECD Forum Network
Chloe E. Bird @ChloeBirdPhD

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias

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Dementia and National Security, Finland Joins NATO, the Four-Day School Week: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the risk that dementia could pose to national security, Finland's NATO membership, the downside of a four-day school week, and more.
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Apr 7, 2023
Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias

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Dementia Rates, Deepfakes, Migrant Students: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the decline of dementia rates among Americans, the dangers of deepfakes, data privacy after the reversal of Roe v. Wade, and more.
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Nov 18, 2022
Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids

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Synthetic Opioids, Ukrainian Grain, the Metaverse: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on countering the illegal flow of synthetic opioids, freeing up Ukrainian grain to prevent famine, the importance of defining the metaverse, and more.
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Jun 24, 2022
The Internet

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Disinformation, Drug Policy, Artificial Intelligence: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on tools to fight disinformation online, the negative consequences of punishing pregnant women for drug use, how to ensure public trust in artificial intelligence, and more
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Nov 15, 2019
Health Care Costs

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Committed to Improving Health Care Policy: Q&A with Jodi Liu
Jodi Liu, an associate policy researcher at RAND, studies how to deliver high-quality care and how to pay for it. She discusses her assessment of a single-payer health care proposal in New York State and the supply-and-demand challenges that might arise if an Alzheimer's treatment became available.
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Oct 23, 2018
Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias

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Struggling with Dementia
The costs of dementia are staggering. A recent RAND analysis quantifies the scope of the problem in the United States and serves as a wake-up call to policymakers everywhere.
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Aug 10, 2015
Caregivers

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Meeting the Caregivers Challenge
Ill or injured military personnel and veterans and people with dementia are unique populations, but they give us a preview of the enormous long-term care challenges Americans will face in the decades to come.
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Aug 25, 2014
The RAND Blog
Emily K. Chen, Jeffrey Wasserman
United States

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A Summer Reading List for Congress
No matter how policymakers spend their break—meeting with home-state constituents, traveling abroad with congressional delegations, or spending time with family—this summer reading list contains policy ideas that can help them hit the ground running when they return.
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Jul 31, 2014
Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias

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Demographics Add Urgency for Action on Dementia Long-Term Care
Dementia takes a huge toll on those afflicted with it. But it also has major consequences for those who must care for them, most often family and friends.
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Jul 28, 2014
Modern Healthcare
Esther M. Friedman
Caregivers

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Parallel Caregiver Crises, Military and Civilian
Among American caregivers, there are two expanding populations: those caring for military servicemembers struggling with physical or emotional wounds of war and those looking after people with dementia. Both face incalculable financial stresses and threats to their own health as a result of their caregiving roles.
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Jul 9, 2014
The Hill
Michael D. Rich @michaeldrich
Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias

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A Global Focus on Dementia
The Group of 8 industrial nations is convening a special session to seek an international approach to dementia research at a time the disease is being recognized as a 21st century global health crisis of historic proportions.
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Dec 11, 2013
The RAND Blog
Regina A. Shih @ReginaShih
Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias

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The Cost of Dementia: Who Will Pay?
It is time for the government in partnership with industry to return to the drawing board to craft a plan that will provide protection for the more than 9 million people who will need care for dementia by 2040, writes Michael D. Hurd.
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May 1, 2013
The Health Care Blog
Michael D. Hurd
Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias

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Dementia's Growing Cost to Caregivers
At the rate that the U.S. population is aging, the total cost of dementia could reach half a trillion dollars a year by 2040. Those who care for impaired relatives and friends are acutely aware of the effects of dementia, and unfortunately they are all too familiar with its costs, writes Kathleen J. Mullen.
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Apr 29, 2013
the RWJF's Human Capital Blog
Kathleen J. Mullen

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

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Preventing Domestic Violent Extremism: Insights from RAND Research

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

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Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias

Advancing Women's Health Requires Better Evidence

Dementia and National Security, Finland Joins NATO, the Four-Day School Week: RAND Weekly Recap

Dementia Rates, Deepfakes, Migrant Students: RAND Weekly Recap

Synthetic Opioids, Ukrainian Grain, the Metaverse: RAND Weekly Recap

Disinformation, Drug Policy, Artificial Intelligence: RAND Weekly Recap

Committed to Improving Health Care Policy: Q&A with Jodi Liu

Struggling with Dementia

Meeting the Caregivers Challenge

A Summer Reading List for Congress

Demographics Add Urgency for Action on Dementia Long-Term Care

Parallel Caregiver Crises, Military and Civilian

A Global Focus on Dementia

The Cost of Dementia: Who Will Pay?

Dementia's Growing Cost to Caregivers

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