A. “Methodological Issues in Using Multiple Years of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey,” by Becky Briesacher, Jennifer Tjia, Chyke Doubeni, Yong Chen, Sowmya R. Rao (Vol. 2, No. 1, Q1 2012, .pdf format, 20p.).
B. “Effect of Cost-Sharing Reductions on Preventive Service Use Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries,” by Suzanne M. Goodwin and Gerard F. Anderson (Vol. 2, No. 1, Q1 2012, .pdf format, 26p.).
A. “Memory Enhancement and Deep-Brain Stimulation of the Entorhinal Area,” by Nanthia Suthana, Zulfi Haneef,John Stern, Roy Mukamel, Eric Behnke, Barbara Knowlton, and Itzhak Fried (Vol. 366, No. 6, February 9, 2012, p. 502-510).
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1107212#t=abstract
B. “Tai Chi and Postural Stability in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease,” by Fuzhong Li, Peter Harmer, Kathleen Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Eckstrom, Ronald Stock, Johnny Galver, Gianni Maddalozzo, and Sara S. Batya (Vol. 366, No. 6, February 9, 2012, p. 511-519).
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1107911#t=abstract
C. “Sources of Regional Variation in Medicare Part D Drug Spending,” by Julie M. Donohue, Nancy E. Morden, Walid F. Gellad, Julie P. Bynum, Weiping Zhou, Joseph T. Hanlon, and Jonathan Skinner (Vol. 366, No. 6, February 9, 2012, p. 530-538).
A. “Creatine Protects against Excitoxicity in an In Vitro Model of Neurodegeneration,” by Just Genius, Johanna Geiger, Andreas Bender, Hans-Jurgen Moller, Thomas Klopstock, and Dan Rujescu (PLoS ONE 7(2): e30554. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030554, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 8p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030554
B. “Massage Therapy for Osteoarthritis of the Knee: A Randomized Dose-Finding Trial,” by Adam I. Perlman, Ather Ali, Valentine Yanchou Njike, David Hom, Anna Davidi, Susan Gould-Fogerite, Carl Milak, and David L. Katz (PLoS ONE 7(2): e30248. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030248, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 9p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030248
“Income-Relating Medicare Part B and Part D Premiums Under Current Law and Recent Proposals: What are the Implications for Beneficiaries?” (February 2012, .pdf format, 11p.).
“Fiscal Incidence when both Individual Welfare and Family Structure Matter: The Case of Subsidization of Home-Care for the Elderly,” by Haizhen Mou and Stanley L. Winer (CESifo Working Paper No. 3731, February 2012, .pdf format, 32p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
“OIG Alerts Physicians to Exercise Caution When Reassigning Their Medicare Payments,” (February 2012, .pdf format, 2p.).
“Explaining the decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate,” by Daniel Aaronson, Jonathan Davis, and Luojia Hu (Chicago Fed Letter No. 296, March 2012, .pdf format, 3p.).
chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/chicago_fed_letter/2012/cflmarch2012_296.pdf
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 12, No. 3, Feb. 9, 2012).
PSID announced the relase of the following public data file: “Housing, Mortgage Distress, and Wealth Data : 2011” (Jan. 23, 2012, SAS format).
simba.isr.umich.edu/Zips/zipSupp.aspx#HMW11
In addition, three restricted use data files have been updated: PSID Mortality Data File, School Identifier Data, and Geospatial Data. For more information about applying for access to these files, go to:
“Inequality across Multiple Generations” (February 2012, .pdf format, 1p.). The conference will be held on Sept. 13-14, 2012 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
psidonline.isr.umich.edu/Publications/Workshops/Multigen2012_CfP.pdf
Conferencealerts.com has recently added the following gerontology related conferences:
Mar. 29, 2012: Self-Directed Support Scotland — Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Apr. 10, 2012: Ageing Asia Investment Forum 2012 — Singapore, Singapore.
Apr. 30, 2012: Business of Aging 2012: Care and Career — Toronto, Canada.
May 16, 2012: The British Geriatrics Society Spring Scientific Conference 2012 — Llandudno, United Kingdom.
May 27, 2012: 1st Istanbul-Eurasian Regional Congress of Biological Psychiatry — Istanbul, Turkey.
Jun. 14, 2012: Best Practices in Social Work and HIV/AIDS 2012 — Montreal, Canada.
Sept. 5, 2012: Ageing: Moving Beyond Boundaries — Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Oct. 18, 2012: Aging in a Changing World: 41st Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology –Vancouver, Canada.
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