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The Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care

Research Projects (2019)

Policy Options that Maximize Access to and Affordability of Prescription Drugs

To develop research on policy options that maximize access to and affordability of prescription drugs.

What is Patient Safety in the Medical Home?

This evaluate the implementation of patient safety in a national sample of primary care medical homes using mixed-methods approaches.

NHATS: National Health and Aging Trends Study

Study to design, test, field and disseminate a new national study to enable analyses of disability trends and trajectories in older people. The new study will be a platform for scientific inquiry to guide efforts to reduce disability, maximized functioning, and enhance older adults' quality of life.

Using Consumer Credit Data to Identify Precursors and Consequences of Cognitive Impairment

To date, the potential health uses of consumer financial data have largely been ignored, particularly for the older population. This exploratory project considers the utility of a big data resource from outside healthcare; consumer debt characteristics collected in credit reports, to predict new cases of cognitive impairment and dementia and healthcare utilization of cognitively impaired patients.

Adverse Financial Events Before and After Dementia Diagnosis: Understanding the Timing and Need for Representative Payees Among Households Impacted by Dementia

This grant studies the frequency and timing of adverse financial events ranging from missed bill payment to home foreclosure and bankruptcy relative to the timing of dementia diagnoses among older adults.

Strengthening Informal Support Resources with Strategic Methodological Advances

The Roybal Center at Johns Hopkins University provides visionary leadership and critical infrastructure to stimulate, facilitate, and advance translational research on the informal support resources of vulnerable older adult populations.

Supplemental Benefit Availability and Uptake in Medicare Advantage

This project will collect and disseminate new longitudinal national data to enhance understanding of informal caregiving to older adults with ADRD. The study will also provide new knowledge of how informal ADRD caregivers’ experiences and outcomes are changing over recent (2011-2020) and longer-term (1999-2020) time periods.

Prognostic Significance of Family Caregiver Factors for Older Adult Health Outcomes

This study draws from linked nationally representative disability and family caregiver surveys, administrative claims, and vital statistics files to determine whether and which family caregiver factors predict disabled older adults’ risk for all-cause hospitalization, nursing home entry, and all-cause mortality and to develop prognostic models for these outcomes.

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