Lauren Hersch Nicholas is the lead author on a new paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine that found Medicare beneficiaries who go on to be diagnosed with dementia are more likely to miss payments on bills as early as six years before a clinical diagnosis. In collaboration with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the University of Michigan Medical School, the researchers also found that beneficiaries diagnosed with dementia who had a lower educational status missed payments on bills beginning as early as seven years before a clinical diagnosis as compared to 2.5 years prior to a diagnosis for beneficiaries with higher educational status. Read the full press release here and media coverage in The Washington Post, the Miami Herald, the Boston Globe, and AARP. 

A study led by center faculty Chanee Fabius and co-authors Noreen Shugrue and Julie Robison in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work examined relationships between home and community-based services, reinstitutionalization, and choice and control in daily activities for older adults in Connecticut. The researchers found that relative to receiving traditional services, having hourly or live-in personal care attendant services was associated with having lower odds of both reinstitutionalization and choice and control. Findings can help strengthen home and community-based services delivery for older adults living in the community. Read more.