“Medicare Advantage: Substantial Excess Payments Underscore Need for CMS to Improve Accuracy of Risk Score Adjustments,” (GAO-13-206, January 2013, .pdf format, 26p.).
March 4, 2013
CAAR – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report – March 4, 2013
“Report of the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform,” (March 2013, .pdf format, 21p.).
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CAAR – Employee Benefit Research Institutes Issue Brief – March 4, 2013
“Income Composition, Income Trends, and Income Shortfalls of Older Households,” by Sudipto Banerjee (Issue Brief No. 383, February 2013, .pdf format, 17p.).
www.ebri.org/publications/ib/index.cfm?fa=ibDisp&content_id=5161
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CAAR – National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper – March 4, 2013
“Aging and Pension Reform: Extending the Retirement Age and Human Capital Formation,” by Edgar Vogel, Alexander Ludwig, and Axel Boersch-Supan (w18856, March 2013, .pdf format, 42p.).
Abstract:
Projected demographic changes in industrialized and developing countries vary in extent and timing but will reduce the share of the population in working age everywhere. Conventional wisdom suggests that this will increase capital intensity with falling rates of return to capital and increasing wages. This decreases welfare for middle aged agents with assets accumulated for retirement. This paper addresses three important adjustments channels to dampen these detrimental effects of ageing: investing abroad, endogenous human capital formation and increasing the retirement age. Although non of these suggestions is new in itself, we examine their effects jointly in one coherent model. Our quantitative finding is that openness has a relatively mild effect. In contrast, endogenous human capital formation in combination with an increase in the retirement age has strong effects. Under these adjustments maximum welfare losses of demographic change for households alive in 2010 are reduced by about 3 percentage points.
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – March 4, 2013
A. “Is R2* a New MRI Biomarker for the Progression of Parkinson’s Disease? A Longitudinal Follow-Up,” by Miguel Ulla, Jean Marie Bonny, Lemlih Ouchchane, Isabelle Rieu, Beatrice Claise, and Franck Durif (PLoS ONE 8(3): e57904. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057904, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 8p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057904
B. “The Effects of Housework on the Health of Retired Older Adults: A Preliminary Investigation from the Tongji-Dongfeng Cohort Study,” by China Xiaopiao Wen, Yuan Liang, Jiang Zhu, and Tangchun Wu (PLoS ONE 8(3): e57232. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057232, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 6p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057232
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CAAR – UK Alzheimer’s Society Report – March 4, 2013
“Low expectations: Attitudes on choice, care and community for people with dementia in care homes,” (February 2013, .pdf format, 72p.).
alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/download_info.php?fileID=1628
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CAAR – United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Report – March 4, 2013
“Report of the Asia-Pacific Intergovernmental Meeting on the Second Review and Appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 10-12 September 2012, Bangkok,” (November 2012, .pdf format, 30p.).
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CAAR – US National Institutes of Health Funding Opportunities – March 4, 2013
A. “Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (P50),” (RFA-AG-13-019, a reissue of RFA-AG-10-002, National Institute on Aging, application due date June 11, 2013).
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-13-019.html
B. “Short-term Mentored Career Enhancement Awards in the Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences: Cross-Training at the Intersection of Animal Models and Human Investigation (K18),” (RFA-DA-14-002, National Institute on Aging, in conjunction with other agencies, application due date December 11, 2013).
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CAAR – Journal Tables of Contents – March 4, 2013
Clinical Gerontologist (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2013).
www.tandfonline.com/toc/wcli20/36/2
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (Vol. 33, Nos. 3 & 4, January 2013).
No. 3:
www.j-alz.com/issues/33/vol33-3.html
No. 4:
www.j-alz.com/issues/33/vol33-4.html
Medical Care Research and Review (Vol. 70, No. 2, April 2013).
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