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Enhancing Care for Older Adults Through the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit

28/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Recent studies indicate that having a billed AWV is associated with increases in preventive care services such as vaccinations, cancer screening, and dementia diagnosis.

• Policy
• Care Services

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Medicare Plan Switching Among Assisted Living Residents: The Role of Memory Care

39/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: These findings suggest that moving to an AL influences Medicare enrollment decisions; and, variation in switching exists between the type of AL (general vs memory care) and whether or not an individual has dementia. +3 more findings

• Care Services
• Policy

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Medicare Plan Switching Among Assisted Living Residents: The Role of Memory Care

39/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: These findings suggest that moving to an AL influences Medicare enrollment decisions; and, variation in switching exists between the type of AL (general vs memory care) and whether or not an individual has dementia. +3 more findings

• Care Services
• Policy

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Examining Barriers and Strategies to Improve Alzheimer's Disease Care in the Veterans Affairs Setting

37/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: A total of 144 surveys were collected from VA clinicians at baseline and during audit-feedback sessions (Table). +4 more findings

• Diagnosis

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The effects of socioeconomic status on perceived self‐efficacy among caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

37/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: There were no significant differences in self-efficacy related to obtaining respite and RDPB between SES groups. +4 more findings

• Caregiving
• Health Equity
• Policy

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Classifying Dementia Diagnoses in the Baltimore Experience Corps Trial Using Medicare and Maryland’s Health Data

37/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrative data are among the most practical sources for understanding the incidence of dementia over time in older populations, but have yet to be widely used in intervention studies.

• Policy
• Clinical Trials
• Risk Factors

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Out of Pocket Costs for People with Dementia: A Comparison Across Insurance Types

41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Among PWD with Medicaid, out-of-pocket costs for nursing homes and assisted living facilities were significantly higher (60%) compared to those TM (33%) and MA (30%). +4 more findings

• Policy
• Care Services

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Care Dynamics of Puerto Rico’s Older Adults: Dementia, Caregiving, Mental Health, and Outmigration

27/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Puerto Rico is experiencing a rapidly aging population due to outmigration and other demographic changes. +1 more finding

• Caregiving
• Policy

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The National Dementia Care Collaborative: Outcomes From Year 1

29/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: The National Dementia Care Collaborative (NDCC) aims to improve access to and successful implementation of evidence-based comprehensive dementia care. +4 more findings

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Introduction of an open‐access national‐level U.S. dementia surveillance system

32/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: The Dementia Datahub (https://dementiadatahub.org/) currently provides mapping, data reporting dashboards, system documentation, and public use files (available upon request) of statistics from the year 2020. +4 more findings

• Care Services
• Policy

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The Evaluation of Telehealth’s Impact on Medicare Annual Wellness Visits and Dementia Diagnosis

30/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Our study underscores the role of telehealth in increasing AWV uptake and facilitating cognitive assessments. +1 more finding

• Diagnosis
• Digital Tools
• Policy

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The Evaluation of Telehealth's Impact on Medicare Annual Wellness Visits and Dementia Diagnosis

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: We found a significant increase in the likelihood of AWV uptake among telehealth adopters by 10.2 percentage points (p <0.001) than non-adopters of telehealth in traditional FFS Medicare plans. +4 more findings

• Diagnosis
• Digital Tools
• Policy

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The Evaluation of Telehealth's Impact on Medicare Annual Wellness Visits and Dementia Diagnosis

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: We found a significant increase in the likelihood of AWV uptake among telehealth adopters by 10.2 percentage points (p <0.001) than non-adopters of telehealth in traditional FFS Medicare plans. +4 more findings

• Diagnosis
• Digital Tools
• Policy

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Home Health Access among Persons with Dementia: Traditional Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage

32/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Persons with dementia were significantly more likely to enter HHC directly from the community (60% vs. 37%, adjusted OR = 1.52, 95% CI = 1.50-1.53). +1 more finding

• Care Services
• Policy

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Performance of Claims-based Dementia Algorithms in Medicare Fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage Populations

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Claims-based dementia algorithms have not been evaluated in the Medicare Advantage (MA) population, a critical gap given the rapid growth of MA and concerns about data completeness. +2 more findings

• Policy

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The effect of socioeconomic status on the severity of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and ADRD caregiver outcomes: a preliminary exploration

39/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: The ANCOVA demonstrated no significant overall differences in BPSD severity related to SES measures. +4 more findings

• Health Equity
• Caregiving

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Prevalence of ADRD Among Medicare Advantage Enrollees in Puerto Rico Compared to US Counterparts

38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Our results show that MA enrollees in PR have six percentage points higher ADRD rates than their US counterparts. +1 more finding

• Policy

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Discrimination, Stress, and Health Across the Life Course

27/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Innovation in Aging

Key finding: These findings highlight the variability in the cumulative patterning of racial discrimination and stress among midlife and older Black adults, providing insights into how these factors impact health outcomes in middle to late life. +3 more findings

• Risk Factors
• Health Equity

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Asian Americans & Racism: Individual and Structural Experiences (ARISE) Pilot Study: Cultural and Linguistic Considerations in Studying Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean American Older Adults

39/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Recruitment strategies are tailored in collaboration with community organizations to align with each language group's preferences, including adjusting the blood draw and interview sequence and hosting group blood draws where participants completed the procedure together, fostering a sense of community and reducing anxiety. +4 more findings

• Health Equity

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Relationship of cognition and structured grocery shopping in older adults with and without mild cognitive impairment

35/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Age was similar between groups (p = 0.07). +4 more findings

• Early Stage
• Digital Tools

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Neighborhood walkability, healthy food environments, and cognitive decline over 14 years among midlife women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation

44/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Women living in areas with higher walkability showed slower rates of decline in immediate (estimate=0.019, SE=0.009) and delayed recall (estimate=0.018, SE=0.008) (Figure 1). +4 more findings

• Risk Factors

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Food Insecurity, Local Food Environments, and Incident Dementia Among Older Adults

36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Innovation in Aging

Key finding: Residing in neighborhoods characterized by low-income, low-vehicle access, and higher low-fat milk prices was associated with a greater risk of incident dementia. +2 more findings

• Risk Factors

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Unraveling disparities in county‐level dementia diagnosis prevalence across the United States

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Alzheimer s & Dementia

Key finding: Top-tertile counties averaged 1986 dementia cases per 100,000 residents; 43.8% were in the South. +4 more findings

• Risk Factors
• Diagnosis

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Phenotypic variability in early-onset dementia segregating with a novel APP (p.I718M) variant

35/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Alzheimer's research & therapy

Key finding: Autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (ADAD) is caused by pathogenic variants in the APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2 genes, but a substantial fraction of reported variants is of unknown clinical significance. +3 more findings

• Genetics
• Digital Tools

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Longitudinal Blood-Based Biomarkers and Clinical Progression in Subjective Cognitive Decline

64/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers JAMA network open

Key finding: Mean (SD) follow-up was 4.8 (2.6) years. +2 more findings

• Biomarkers
• Early Stage

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