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Journal Article

Understanding What Works: Measuring and Monitoring Quality in Medi-Cal's Home and Community-Based Services

This issue brief describes challenges and opportunities related to measuring, reporting, and monitoring the quality of HCBS sponsored by Medi-Cal.

Jan 26, 2022
Report

Societal Impact of Research Funding for Women's Health in Rheumatoid Arthritis

The authors find that small investments are likely to yield large gains from increasing research funding in rheumatoid arthritis; investing in women's health research yields benefits above investing in general research.

Jan 25, 2022
Blog

Nuclear Deterrence, COVID-19 and Infant Deaths, Criminal Justice Reform: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on why the United States doesn’t need more nuclear weapons, increased infant deaths during the pandemic, preventing veteran suicide, and more.

Oct 22, 2021
Commentary

Protecting the Elderly from Financial Exploitation

Older adults are more vulnerable to scams and more likely to have money and assets than their younger counterparts of the same race/ethnicity. Policy solutions that provide protection against financial fraud could help older adults to live more financially stable lives.

Oct 14, 2021
Report

Investment in Women's Health Research Could Reap Large Societal Benefits

The potential gains from women-focused research are substantial, given the limitations in knowledge about disease development and impacts for women relative to men. Savings would include increased life years, fewer disruptions to work productivity, and fewer years with disease and functional dependence.

Oct 11, 2021
Report

The Impact of Funding Heart Disease Research Focused on Women

Physiological differences between men and women affect factors that relate to the development and progression of heart disease. Increasing investment in women's health research on coronary artery disease could yield considerable societal gains, including increased health-related quality of life and labor productivity.

Oct 11, 2021
Commentary

Reframing Retirement

Retirement is a fluid concept. Many retirees would consider returning to the workforce if conditions were right and they could set their own pace. A reframing of the aging and retirement process would allow us to see the issue in a new way.

Aug 9, 2021
News Release

Nearly a Third of Americans Use Gray Market When Hiring Caregivers for the Elderly and Those with Dementia

Nearly a third of Americans who arranged for paid care for an older person or someone with dementia employed workers who were not hired through a regulated agency.

Jun 21, 2021
Multimedia

RAND Summer Institute Lecture Series 2020

This video session is from the 27th Annual RAND Summer Institute, held virtually July 6-10, 2020, which addresses critical issues facing the aging population.

May 13, 2021
Research Brief

Weinberg Center for Elder Justice Offers Potential Cost Savings and Other Benefits

The Weinberg Center is the first shelter designed for older adults experiencing abuse or mistreatment. In addition to counseling and medical care, clients can get help with their finances, are encouraged to socialize, and are introduced to outside social services. The Center has the potential to generate benefits and savings that far exceed its operating costs.

May 10, 2021
Report

An Initial Evaluation of the Weinberg Center for Elder Justice's Shelter Model for Elder Abuse and Mistreatment

The authors describe the model of the Weinberg Center (the nation's first elder-specific shelter), examine some client outcomes, and begin to quantify the model's costs and benefits for individuals experiencing elder abuse or mistreatment.

May 10, 2021
Commentary

If You Build Automated Vehicles, Will Older Adults Come?

Whether older adults benefit from autonomous vehicles may hinge on taking explicit steps. Lessons can be learned from experiences with other technologies.

Apr 28, 2021
Report

The Impact of Funding Brain Health Research Focused on Women

An examination of the impact of increased funding for research on Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias in women showed that small investments in women's health research can yield large gains, including benefits above investing in general research.

Apr 22, 2021
Journal Article

Low-Value Proton Pump Inhibitor Prescriptions Among Older Adults at a Large Academic Health System

Older adults are particularly vulnerable to complications from proton pump inhibitor drugs. We sought to characterize the prevalence of potentially low-value PPI prescriptions among older adults to inform a quality improvement intervention.

Apr 9, 2021
Journal Article

Priority-Setting to Address the Geriatric Pharmacoparadox for Pain Management: A Nursing Home Stakeholder Delphi Study

Our objective was to explore the extent of consensus among expert stakeholders regarding what analgesic issues should be prioritized for comparative-effectiveness studies of beneficial and adverse effects of analgesic regimens in nursing home residents.

Feb 25, 2021
Journal Article

Older Adults, New Mobility, and Automated Vehicles

New technologies for mobility could improve access for older Americans or pass them by. Research and action are needed to promote benefits for older and other Americans.

Feb 18, 2021
Journal Article

Financial Literacy and Financial Decision-Making at Older Ages

This paper examines how financial literacy is associated with three types of financial decisions pertinent to older individuals: adherence to timely credit card repayment, stock market participation, and risk diversification of household assets.

Feb 9, 2021
Commentary

Humans Are Living Longer, So What Do We Do with All This Extra Time?

Medical and public health improvements over the past century have led to dramatic increases in longevity. New policies may be needed to ensure these extra years become mutually beneficial to all generations.

Feb 5, 2021
Journal Article

Do Income Supplemental Programs for Older Adults' Help Reduce Primary Caregiver Burden? Evidence from Mexico

This article analyzes the effects of a supplemental income program for older adults on primary caregiver burden, in Yucatan, Mexico.

Dec 15, 2020
Journal Article

Mental Illness, Access to Hospitals with Invasive Cardiac Services, and Receipt of Cardiac Procedures by Medicare Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients

Mental illness was associated with reduced cardiac procedure use within each type of admitting hospital (with on-site invasive cardiac services or not).

Dec 3, 2020

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