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Our NIH-funded centers are advancing knowledge of the health, economic and social impacts of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
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Trends in Incident Dementia Diagnosis Before and After Medicare Risk Adjustment
Experts: Julie Zissimopoulos, Geoffrey Joyce, Mireille Jacobson
Estimates of Diagnosed Dementia Prevalence and Incidence Among Diverse Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage
Expanding the Use of Brief Cognitive Assessments to Detect Suspected Early-Stage Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care
Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Living with Dementia
Featured Article
Does Medicare Advantage Deliver Better Care for Persons Living With Dementia Than Traditional Medicare?
With data available from CMS on all Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in private plans and traditional Medicare, researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center are driving new research on how payment structures impact the care of persons living with dementia.
Experts: Haley Garland, Johanna Thunell, Julie Zissimopoulos
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News
How a Gift Card Could Help Speed Up Alzheimer’s Clinical Research
Featured Experts: Mireille Jacobson, Doris Molina-Henry
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Bloomberg
Bloomberg cites Schaeffer Center data on 2025 dementia costs
Featured Experts: Julie Zissimopoulos
Healio
Zissimopoulos discusses how the U.S. Cost of Dementia project will help policymakers identify opportunities to reduce costs
Featured Experts: Julie Zissimopoulos
Marketplace
Heun-Johnson quoted on how excess COVID-19 deaths affected Social Security finances
Featured Experts: Hanke Heun-Johnson
USC Today
Proposed Medicare coverage of at-home long-term care would have profound impact, Zissimopoulos says
Featured Experts: Julie Zissimopoulos
The New York Times
Chapel explaining the widening gap in health and economic wellbeing between the lower and upper middle class nearing retirement age
Featured Experts: Jack M. Chapel
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