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Association of Medicare Part D Benzodiazepine Coverage Expansion With Changes in Fall-Related Injuries and Overdoses Among Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries

This study found an increase in the rate of overdose after Medicare Part D coverage began to include benzodiazepines among adults aged 65 to 69 years and 80 years or older and an increase in the rate of fall-related injury in adults 80 years or older.

May 5, 2020
Commentary

Should You Consider Taking a Loved One Out of a Long-Term Care Facility?

As modern living is changing during this pandemic, so is assisted living. Already, many of us are facing difficult decisions about whether someone we know should stay in an assisted living facility or be taken out due to the coronavirus crisis. If you're in the position to bring someone to hunker down with you, is it even a good idea?

Mar 30, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Palliative Care and Infection Management at End of Life in Nursing Homes: A Descriptive Survey

The aim of this study was to describe the current status of how nursing homes integrates palliative care and infection management at end of life across the nation.

Mar 19, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Health System and Beneficiary Costs Associated With Intensive End-of-Life Medical Services

The objective of this paper is to quantify expected beneficiary and health system costs incurred in association with receipt of intensive medical services in the last month of life.

Mar 11, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Effect of Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease on Household Financial Outcomes

Our goal in this study is estimate, on net, the financial effects of early-stage Alzheimer's Disease, from the start of first symptoms to diagnosis, on individuals and their families.

Mar 10, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Advancing Policy to Build a Behavioral Health Workforce That Addresses the Needs of Older Adults

This study draws from an evaluation of how older adults are served by California's public mental health delivery system, and a review of state planning documents and academic literature, to describe gaps and deficiencies in the workforce that serves older adults.

Dec 20, 2019
Report

2019 RAND Summer Institute Lecture Series

Video sessions from the 26th Annual RAND Summer Institute, two annual conferences in Santa Monica, California, which addressed critical issues facing our aging population: The Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists on July 8–9, and the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging conference on July 10–11, 2019.

Dec 9, 2019
Journal Article

Journal Article

Impact of the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care Older People's Programme on Hospital Utilisation and Costs: Controlled Time Series and Cost-Consequence Analysis

This article estimates the impact on hospital utilisation and costs of a multi-faceted primary care intervention for older people identified as being at risk of avoidable hospitalisation. It concludes the intervention was not cost saving.

Nov 22, 2019
Commentary

Turning Off Power to Combat Wildfires Could Harm the Very People Who Need Protection

Intentionally shutting off power may be a practical way to prevent power lines from sparking wildfires. But is it worth the risks? Until more thoughtful and comprehensive decisions are made, planned power outages need to be planned better.

Oct 28, 2019
Journal Article

Journal Article

Financial Knowledge and Portfolio Complexity in Singapore

This paper reports the first analysis of older Singaporeans' financial literacy using a unique new dataset, the Singapore Life Panel (SLP®).

Sep 20, 2019
Journal Article

Journal Article

High-frequency Internet Survey of a Probability Sample of Older Singaporeans: The Singapore Life Panel®

We detail the methodology by which the Singapore Life Panel was constructed using a population-representative sampling frame from the Singapore Department of Statistics.

Sep 20, 2019
Report

Report

Better evaluations to support the needs of older people in the UK

Transforming care for older people is complex. This report summarises workshops undertaken with different stakeholders in an attempt to identify ways to improve how evaluations are commissioned, completed and used in a changing policy landscape.

Mar 24, 2019
Report

Report

Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care: Evaluation of the Older People's Programme Final report

The Southwark and Lambeth Older People's Programme for older people at risk of avoidable hospitalisation, reduced A&E and outpatient attendances and elective admissions but not emergency admissions. The Programme was not cost-saving.

Mar 22, 2019
Journal Article

Journal Article

Understanding Community-Based Social Innovations for Healthy Ageing

A study to identify how community-based social innovations function across a number of rapidly ageing countries and the policies, programmes and health system factors underpinning their success.

Feb 5, 2019
Commentary

How AVs Could Provide Independence for Older Drivers

Giving up driving has been linked to depression and isolation in older adults, as well as early entry into nursing home facilities. Autonomous vehicles could help improve the well-being of older adults by allowing them to maintain independence while still giving up their car keys.

Sep 21, 2018
Multimedia

2018 RAND Summer Institute Lecture Series

Video sessions from the 25th Annual RAND Summer Institute, held July 9-12, 2018, in Santa Monica, California, which addresses critical issues facing our aging population.

Aug 8, 2018
Research Brief

Many Americans Follow Nontraditional Paths to Retirement

Most U.S. seniors don't follow the “standard” pattern of retirement. For example, many stay in full- or part-time posts past age 70. Health and economic factors, cognitive abilities, and personality traits can shape Americans' retirement paths.

Jul 30, 2018
News Release

RAND Project Will Develop Quality Measures for Community-Based Care for the Seriously Ill

Researchers from the RAND Corporation have been awarded a grant to develop a survey to measure the quality of care provided to people with serious illnesses, an issue of increasing importance as the nation's population of frail older individuals grows.

Jun 21, 2018
Journal Article

Journal Article

Trends in the Prevalence and Disparity in Cognitive Limitations of Americans 55-69 Years Old

Among Americans aged 55-69, rates of cognitive limitation are many times higher for groups with lower socioeconomic status (SES) than those with higher SES, and recent trends show little indication that gaps are narrowing.

May 3, 2018
Periodical

Periodical

RAND Review: May-June 2018

This issue features research on preventing child abuse and neglect and improving outcomes for children in the U.S. child-welfare system; a look back on RAND's 70 years of innovation; and an exploration of the human side of artificial intelligence.

Apr 30, 2018

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