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Jul 23, 2026

Improving frailty care

RAND Europe and the University of Cambridge are evaluating how NHS England is improving health and social care for older people living with frailty.
Research

Jul 9, 2026

Use of Claims Data to Screen for Functional Limitations Among Medicare Beneficiaries

This paper describes the development of a survey-based index of functional limitations and a new claims-based model for predicting limitations.
Research

May 29, 2026

Capturing Adults' Familiarity With Financial Fraud: Relationships With Targeting, Engagement, and Victimization

Using a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults, this study explores awareness of five financial fraud types and links that knowledge to fraud experiences including targeting, engagement, and financial loss.
Research

May 28, 2026

Geographic Variation in Amputations for Medicare Patients With Diabetic Lower-Extremity Wounds

The objective of this paper is to examine associations of regional patient and health care system characteristics with major amputations following diabetic lower-extremity wounds.
Research

May 14, 2026

Initiation Setting and Persistence of Medications Affecting Cognition in Older Adults

Older Medicare beneficiaries were disproportionately prescribed cognition-affecting medications from acute/postacute settings, and most continued taking them one year later.
Research

May 11, 2026

Kinship, Gender, and the Social Networks of Caregivers for Older Adults

This study generates an empirical typology of caregiver social networks and examines the types’ association with caregiver gender, relationship to the recipient, and their interaction.
Research

May 8, 2026

Insurance Coverage and Provision of Opioid Disorder Treatment: Evidence From Medicare

Medicare's 2020 methadone coverage policy for opioid use disorder expanded treatment access for older adults, increased provider participation, and generated spillover effects across payers.
Research

Jan 15, 2026

An Exploratory Analysis of Advance Care Planning Typologies in a Sample of Midlife and Older Adult Sexual Minority Men

This exploratory analysis focused on two key research questions: 1) What are the patterns of advance care planning behaviors among midlife and older adult SMM? 2) What psychosocial correlates and experiences are associated with these patterns?
Podcast

Jan 12, 2026

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What China's Demographics Mean for Its Military

RAND's Mark Cozad discusses how China's shrinking, aging population could affect its military ambitions, as well as U.S. strategy and global security.
Commentary

Jan 6, 2026

Un-Retiring: How Older Workers Could Solve Rural America's Labor Crisis

Rural states have thousands of jobs they can't fill. Yet they've often overlooked one resource they tend to have in abundance. With the right opportunities and working conditions, older people could fill a lot of those jobs and provide a much-needed boost to rural economies.
Research

Nov 21, 2025

Cost-effectiveness of Acupuncture Needling for Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain

Enhanced acupuncture was cost saving and standard acupuncture may be cost-effective from the healthcare-sector and Medicare perspectives compared with usual medical care for older adults with chronic low back pain.
Commentary

Nov 12, 2025

Could Home Sensors Ease Pressures in Social Care?

England's social care system is under great strain. Could sensor technologies—which monitor a person's activity in the home—improve care and cut costs? What are the associated risks?

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Improving frailty care

Use of Claims Data to Screen for Functional Limitations Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Capturing Adults' Familiarity With Financial Fraud: Relationships With Targeting, Engagement, and Victimization

Geographic Variation in Amputations for Medicare Patients With Diabetic Lower-Extremity Wounds

Initiation Setting and Persistence of Medications Affecting Cognition in Older Adults

Kinship, Gender, and the Social Networks of Caregivers for Older Adults

Insurance Coverage and Provision of Opioid Disorder Treatment: Evidence From Medicare

An Exploratory Analysis of Advance Care Planning Typologies in a Sample of Midlife and Older Adult Sexual Minority Men

What China's Demographics Mean for Its Military

Un-Retiring: How Older Workers Could Solve Rural America's Labor Crisis

Cost-effectiveness of Acupuncture Needling for Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain

Could Home Sensors Ease Pressures in Social Care?

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Older Adults

Older Adults

Related Topics

Un-Retiring: How Older Workers Could Solve Rural America's Labor Crisis

Could Home Sensors Ease Pressures in Social Care?

Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

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Improving frailty care

Use of Claims Data to Screen for Functional Limitations Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Capturing Adults' Familiarity With Financial Fraud: Relationships With Targeting, Engagement, and Victimization

Geographic Variation in Amputations for Medicare Patients With Diabetic Lower-Extremity Wounds

Initiation Setting and Persistence of Medications Affecting Cognition in Older Adults

Kinship, Gender, and the Social Networks of Caregivers for Older Adults

Insurance Coverage and Provision of Opioid Disorder Treatment: Evidence From Medicare

An Exploratory Analysis of Advance Care Planning Typologies in a Sample of Midlife and Older Adult Sexual Minority Men

What China's Demographics Mean for Its Military

Un-Retiring: How Older Workers Could Solve Rural America's Labor Crisis

Cost-effectiveness of Acupuncture Needling for Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain

Could Home Sensors Ease Pressures in Social Care?

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