“Investing in faith: Religion helps retirees stay mentally fit, studies indicate,” by David Briggs (Ahead of the Trend, Oct. 2, 2012).
October 4, 2012
CAAR – US Government Accountability Office Report – October 4, 2012
“Private Sector Pensions: Federal Agencies Should Collect Data and Coordinate Oversight of Multiple Employer Plans,” (GAO-12-665, September 2012, .pdf format, 55p.).
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CAAR – US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Article – October 4, 2012
“Evaluating Comorbidity Scores Based on Health Service Expenditures,” by Meredith L. Kilgore, Wilson Smith, Jeffrey R. Curtis, Michael A. Morrisey, David J. Becker, Kenneth G. Saag, and Elizabeth Delzell (Medicare and Medicaid Research Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012 Q3, .pdf format, 8p.).
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – October 4, 2012
A. “Timing Matters in Hip Fracture Surgery: Patients Operated within 48 Hours Have Better Outcomes. A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of over 190,000 Patients,” by Lorenzo Moja, Alessandra Piatti, Valentina Pecoraro, Cristian Ricci, Gianni Virgili, Georgia Salanti, Luca Germagnoli, Alessandro Liberati, and Giuseppe Banfi (PLoS ONE 7(10): e46175. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046175, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 13p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0046175
B. “Aging Contributes to Inflammation in Upper Extremity Tendons and Declines in Forelimb Agility in a Rat Model of Upper Extremity Overuse,” by David M. Kietrys, Ann E. Barr-Gillespie, Mamta Amin, Christine K. Wade, Steve N. Popoff, and Mary F. Barbe (PLoS ONE 7(10): e46954. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046954, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 12p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0046954
C. “Inappropriate Drugs in Elderly Patients with Severe Cognitive Impairment: Results from the Shelter Study,” by Giuseppe Colloca, Matteo Tosato, Davide L. Vetrano, Eva Topinkova, Daniela Fialova, Jacob Gindin, Henriette G. van der Roest, Francesco Landi, Rosa Liperoti, Roberto Bernabei, and Graziano Onder, SHELTER project (PLoS ONE 7(10): e46669. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046669, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 7p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0046669
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CAAR – Joseph Rowntree Foundation [UK] Report – October 4, 2012
“Creating a dementia-friendly York,” by Janet Crampton, Janet Dean and Ruth Eley (October 2012, .pdf format, 68p.).
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CAAR – National Academy of Social Insurance Brief – October 4, 2012
“Health Care Spending Trends: Medicare and Private Health Insurance,” by Lee Goldberg and Sabiha Zainulbhai (Health Policy Brief No. 4, October 2012, .pdf format, 4p.).
www.nasi.org/research/2012/health-care-spending-trends-medicare-private-health-insuranc
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CAAR – National Health and Aging Trends Study [NHATS] Call for Papers – October 4, 2012
“NHATS Early Results Workshop,” (April 25 & 26, 2013, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health). Note: The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2012.
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CAAR – Journal Table of Contents – October 4, 2012
Gerontologist (Vol. 52, No. 5, October 2012).
gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/5.toc
Research on Aging (Vol. 36, No. 6, November 2012).
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