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Predictors of Poor Health Outcomes in Midlife and Older Adults with Diabetes in the 2018-2020 Health and Retirement Study [Multimorbidity]

Annals of Family Medicine

Diabetes co-occurs with other chronic conditions (CC), functional limitations (FL), and geriatric syndromes (GS). We conducted Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis to identify the specific combinations of CC, FL, and GS conditions and sociodemographic characteristics that predict each outcome overall, and by age and race.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

GeriPal

I started going to the literature and I noticed that communities of color, those with the Hispanic background, Black individuals were disproportionately impacted by dementia, and I couldn’t believe it. I think, again, it’s the person’s individual, their preference. Alex: Yeah, I like that approach too.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. So, I love how tailored and individualized it was, and that’s what this process evaluation is really showing us, so far.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Again, as Greg said, where the individual chooses what works best for them. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging. They touch every single system.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. That started in November of 2020. Annals of Int Med. We were going to them. That is beautiful.

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