“Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) (CAG-00324R2),” (April 2012).
www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/details/nca-decision-memo.aspx?NCAId=255
May 22, 2012
CAAR – US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Coverage Decision Memorandum – May 22, 2012
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CAAR – Health Services Executive/Feidhmeannacht na Seirbhise Slainte [Ireland] Report – May 22, 2012
“Elder Abuse Report 2011,” (May 2012, .pdf format, 65p.).
www.hse.ie/eng/services/Publications/services/Older/Elderabusereport2011.html
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CAAR – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Article Abstracts – May 22, 2012
A. “Genome-wide association and functional studies identify the DOT1L gene to be involved in cartilage thickness and hip osteoarthritis,” by Martha C. Castano Betancourt, Frederic Cailotto, Hanneke J. Kerkhof, Frederique M. F. Cornelis, Sally A. Doherty, Deborah J. Hart, Albert Hofman, Frank P. Luyten, Rose A. Maciewicz, Massimo Mangino, Sarah Metrustry, Kenneth Muir, Marjolein J. Peters, Fernando Rivadeneira, Maggie Wheeler, Weiya Zhang, Nigel Arden, Tim D. Spector, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Michael Doherty, Rik J. U. Lories, Ana M. Valdes, and Joyce B. J. van Meurs (Vol. 109, No. 21, May 22, 2012, p. 8218-8223).
www.pnas.org/content/109/21/8218.abstract
B. “Genetic coregulation of age of female sexual maturation and lifespan through circulating IGF1 among inbred mouse strains,” by Rong Yuan, Qingying Meng, Jaya Nautiyal, Kevin Flurkey, Shirng-Wern Tsaih, Rebecca Krier, Malcolm G. Parker, David E. Harrison, and Beverly Paigen (Vol. 109, No. 21, May 22, 2012, p. 8224-8229).
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Article – May 22, 2012
“The Baseline and Longitudinal Changes of PCC Connectivity in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Combined Structure and Resting-State fMRI Study,” by Zhiqun Wang, Peipeng Liang, Xiuqin Jia, Guangwei Jin, Haiqing Song, Ying Han, Jie Lu, and Kuncheng Li (PLoS ONE 7(5): e36838. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036838, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 11p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036838
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CAAR – AARP Factsheet – May 22, 2012
“Chronic Condition Prevalence in the 50+ US Population,” by Keith D. Lind and Claire Noel-Miller (May 2012, .pdf format, 1p.).
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CAAR – Table of Contents – May 22, 2012
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (Vol. 20, No. 6, June 2012).
journals.lww.com/ajgponline/pages/currenttoc.aspx
Journal of Population Ageing (Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2012).
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May 18, 2012
CAAR – US Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate – May 18, 2012
“H.R. 4363 Federal Employee Phased Retirement Act” (May 2012, .pdf format, 4p.).
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CAAR – University of Michigan Retirement Research Center Working Paper – May 18, 2012
“Spousal Labor Supply Responses to Government Programs: Evidence from the Disability Insurance Program,” by Susan Chen (WP 2010-261, April 2012, .pdf format, 32p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
www.mrrc.isr.umich.edu/publications/index_abstract.cfm?ptid=1&pid=820
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CAAR – Springer Publishing Book – May 18, 2012
Fast Facts for Dementia Care: What Nurses Need to Know in a Nutshell, by Carol Miller (2012, ISBN-13: 9780826120366, 232p.).
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CAAR – National Academy on an Aging Society Newsletter – May 18, 2012
Public Policy & Aging E-Newsletter (Vol. 6, No. 3, May 2012, HTML format).
www.agingsociety.org/agingsociety/publications/public_policy/2012newsletterv6n3.htm
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CAAR – Table of Contents – May 18, 2012
International Journal of Aging and Human Development (Vol. 74, No. 3, 2012).
baywood.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0091-4150&volume=74&issue=3
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May 17, 2012
CAAR – Tables of Contents – May 17, 2012
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Vol. 55, No. 1, July/August 2012).
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CAAR – US Census Bureau Data Release – May 17, 2012
“The latest national, state, and county estimates by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin and Puerto Rico Commonwealth and municipio estimates by age and sex – for July 1, 2011,” (May 17, 2012, Excel and comma-delimited format).
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CAAR – Urban Institute Brief – May 17, 2012
“Age Disparities in Unemployment and Reemployment During the Great Recession and Recovery,” by Richard W. Johnson and Barbara Butrica (No. 3, May 2012, .pdf format, 8p.).
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CAAR – New England Journal of Medicine Article Abstract – May 17, 2012
“Association of Coffee Drinking with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality,” by Neal D. Freedman, Yikyung Park, Christian C. Abnet, Albert R. Hollenbeck, and Rashmi Sinha (Vol. 366, No. 20, May 17, 2012, p. 1891-1904).
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1112010?query=TOC#t=abstract
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CAAR – Heritage Foundation Brief – May 17, 2012
“The Good News in the Medicare Trustees Report,” by J.D. Foster (May 2012, .pdf and HTML format, 4p.).
www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/05/medicare-trustees-report-reform-imminent
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CAAR – Family Caregiver Alliance Periodical – May 17, 2012
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 12, No. 10, May 16, 2012).
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May 16, 2012
CAAR – US National Institute of Health News Release – May 16, 2012
“NIH-funded research provides new clues on how ApoE4 affects Alzheimer’s risk,” (May 16, 2012).
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – May 16, 2012
A. “Hyperphosphorylation and Cleavage at D421 Enhance Tau Secretion,” by Vanessa Plouffe, Nguyen-Vi Mohamed, Jessica Rivest-McGraw, Johanne Bertrand, Michel Lauzon, and Nicole Leclerc (PLoS ONE 7(5): e36873. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036873, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 13p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036873
B. “{alpha}-Synuclein Genetic Variants Predict Faster Motor Symptom Progression in Idiopathic Parkinson Disease,” by Beate Ritz, Shannon L. Rhodes, Yvette Bordelon, and Jeff Bronstein (PLoS ONE 7(5): e36199. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036199, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 8p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036199
C. “Evaluation of Accelerometer-Based Fall Detection Algorithms on Real-World Falls,” by Fabio Bagala, Clemens Becker, Angelo Cappello, Lorenzo Chiari, Kamiar Aminian, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, Wiebren Zijlstra, and Jochen Klenk (PLoS ONE 7(5): e37062. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037062, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 9p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0037062
D. “Morphological and Pathological Evolution of the Brain Microcirculation in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease,” by Jesse M. Hunter, Jason Kwan, Michael Malek-Ahmadi, Chera L. Maarouf, Tyler A. Kokjohn, Christine Belden, Marwan N. Sabbagh, Thomas G. Beach, and Alex E. Roher (PLoS ONE 7(5): e36893. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036893, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 12p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036893
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CAAR – AARP Factsheet – May 16, 2012
“The Employment Situation, April 2012: Little Encouraging News for Older Workers,” by Sara E. Rix (April 2012, .pdf format, 8p.).
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CAAR – US National Institutes of Health News Release – May 16, 2012
“NIH-funded research provides new clues on how ApoE4 affects Alzheimer’s risk” (May 16, 2012).
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CAAR – US National Institutes of Health Funding Opportunity – May 16, 2012
“Macroeconomic Aspects of Population Aging (R01),” (PAR-12-186, US National Institute on Aging, application due date October 3, 2012; October 3, 2013; October 3, 2014).
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CAAR – Table of Contents – May 16, 2012
American Journal of Epidemiology (Vol. 175, No. 10, May 15, 2012).
aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol175/issue10/index.dtl?etoc
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Vol. 60, No. 5, July 2012).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.2012.60.issue-5/issuetoc
Research on Aging (Vol. 34, No. 4, July 2012).
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May 15, 2012
CAAR – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Article Abstract – May 15, 2012
“Toxic fibrillar oligomers of amyloid-ß have cross-ß structure,” by James C. Stroud, Cong Liu, Poh K. Teng, and David Eisenberg (Vol. 109, No. 20, May 15, 2012, p. 7717-7722).
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CAAR – US Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Report – May 15, 2012
“National Plan To Address Alzheimer’s Disease,” (May 2012, .pdf and HTML format, 63p.).
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CAAR – US Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing Testimony – May 15, 2012
“Missed by the Recovery: Solving the Long-Term Unemployment Crisis for Older Workers,” a hearing held May 15, 2012 (witness statements available in .pdf format, full hearing can be viewed in Flash Player format, running time 57 minutes, 16 sec.).
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CAAR – US Government Accountability Office Report – May 15, 2012
“Unemployed Older Workers: Many Experience Challenges Regaining Employment and Face Reduced Retirement Security,” (GAO-12-445, April 2012, .pdf format, 90p.).
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CAAR – Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Working Paper – May 15, 2012
“Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance: Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion,” by Melissa A. Boyle and Joanna N. Lahey (WP No. 2012-16, May 2012, .pdf format, 28p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Article – May 15, 2012
“Urate and Its Transgenic Depletion Modulate Neuronal Vulnerability in a Cellular Model of Parkinson’s Disease,” by Sara Cipriani, Cody A. Desjardins, Thomas C. Burdett, Yuehang Xu, Kui Xu, and Michael A. Schwarzschild (PLoS ONE 7(5): e37331. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037331, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 9p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0037331
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CAAR – Center for Economic Studies/Ifo Institute for Economic Research (CESifo) [Munich, Bavaria, Germany] Working Paper – May 15, 2012
“The Timing of Retirement – New Evidence from Swiss Female Workers,” by Barbara Hanel and Regina T. Riphahn (CESifo Working Paper No. 3814, May 2012, .pdf format, 33p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
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CAAR – Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Working Paper – May 15, 2012
“Lessons from National Pensions Communication Campaigns,” by Adele Atkinson, Debbie Harrison, Flore-Anne Messy, and Juan Yermo (OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions No. 18, May 2012, .pdf format, 65p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
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CAAR – Table of Contents – May 15, 2012
Ageing International (Vol. 37, No. 2, June 2012).
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May 14, 2012
CAAR – Conferencealerts.com Gerontology Conferences – May 14, 2012
Conferencealerts.com has recently added the following gerontology related conferences:
May 24, 2012: National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly Knowledge Exchange 2012–Toronto, Canada
May 28, 2012: 7th World Conference of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) and commemoration World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD)–Prague, Czech Republic
May 28, 2012: Retirement Living World China 2012–Shanghai, China
Jun. 29, 2012: Providing for an Ageing Society Conference–London, UK
Sep. 5, 2012: Ageing: Moving Beyond Boundaries–Lancaster, UK
Oct. 17, 2012: 1st IAGG Conference on Gerontology and Geriatrics–Cape Town, South Africa
Nov. 5, 2012: Aging and Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference–Vancouver, Canada
Nov. 14, 2012: GSA’s 65th Annual Scientific Meeting–San Diego, California
Nov. 15, 2012: Healthy Ageing 2012–Frankfurt, Germany
Nov. 20, 2012: Ageing: Challenging the boundaries–Brisbane, Australia
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CAAR – Age UK Report – May 14, 2012
“Staying steady: Improving your strength and balance” (May 2012, .pdf format, 34p).
www.ageuk.org.uk/Documents/EN-GB/Information-guides/AgeUKIG14_staying_steady_inf.pdf
More information about Age UK:
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CAAR – Institute National d’Etudes Demogaphiques (INED) [Paris France] Call for Post-Doctoral Researcher Applications – May 14, 2012
Institute National d’Etudes Demogaphiques (INED) [Paris France] Call for Post-Doctoral Researcher Applications (.pdf format, 3p.). Applications are due by Jun. 15, 2012. For more information see:
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CAAR – International Labour Organization Report – May 14, 2012
“Can the European elderly afford the financial burden of health and long-term care? Assessing impacts and policy implications,” by Xenia Scheil-Adlung and Jacopo Bonan (Global Extension of Social Security Report ESS 31, 2012, .pdf format, 44p.).
www.social-protection.org/gimi/gess/RessShowRessource.do?ressourceId=30228
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CAAR – US Census Bureau Director’s Blog Entry – May 14, 2012
“A Future Without Key Social and Economic Statistics for the Country,” by Robert M. Groves (May 11, 2012).
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CAAR – Urban Institute Report – May 14, 2012
“Housing as a Platform for Improving Outcomes for Older Renters,” by Brenda Spillman, Jennifer Biess, and Graham MacDonald (April 2012, .pdf format, 24p.).
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May 11, 2012
CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Article – May 11, 2012
“Insight into the Stability of Cross-{beta} Amyloid Fibril from VEALYL Short Peptide with Molecular Dynamics Simulation,” by Wei Ye, Yue Chen, Wei Wang, Qingfen Yu, Yixue Li, Jian Zhang, and Hai-Feng Chen (PLoS ONE 7(5): e36382. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036382, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036382
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CAAR – Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) [University of Bonn, Germany] Working Papers – May 11, 2012
A. “Retirement: Does Individual Unemployment Matter? Evidence from Danish Panel Data 1980-2009,” by Trine Filges, Mona Larsen, and Peder J. Pedersen (Discussion Paper No. 6538, May 2012, .pdf format, 24p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=6538
B. “Paid Work after Retirement: Recent Trends in Denmark,” by Mona Larsen and Peder J. Pedersen (Discussion Paper No. 6537, May 2012, .pdf format, 29p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=6537
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CAAR – Centre for Social Justice [UK] Report – May 11, 2012
“Transforming social care for the poorest older people,” (April 2012, .pdf format, 7p.).
www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/downloads/Transforming%20care%20%28Apr%202012%29.pdf
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CAAR – US National Institutes of Health Funding Opportunity – May 11, 2012
“National Institute on Aging Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease Genome Sequencing Project Data [U19],” (PAR-12-183, National Institute on Aging, deadline for application is August 7, 2012).
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CAAR – Tables of Contents – May 11, 2012
International Psychogeriatrics (Vol. 24, No. 7, July 2012).
journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?decade=2010&jid=IPG&volumeId=24&issueId=07&iid=8573565
Journal of Aging Studies (Vol. 26, No. 3, August 2012).
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May 10, 2012
CAAR – US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General Report – May 10, 2012
“Retail Pharmacies With Questionable Part D Billing,” (OEI-02-09-00600, May 2012, .pdf format, 32p.).
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CAAR – United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean Report – May 10, 2012
“Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection: Time for Progress Towards Equality,” (May 2012, .pdf format, 93p.).
www.cepal.org/celade/noticias/paginas/7/46027/2012-114-CRE-Ingles.pdf
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CAAR – US Senate Committee on Finance Hearing Testimony – May 10, 2012
“Roundtable Discussion on “Medicare Physician Payments: Understanding the Past so We Can Envision the Future”,” a hearing held May 10, 2012 (witness statements available in .pdf format, full hearing can be viewed in Flash Player format, running time 1 hour 35 minutes).
www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=ce954372-5056-a032-5269-10f65a59f5d4
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