Thursday, March 6

11:15 am

Introduction to U54 Center Activities

12:00 pm

Lunch

12:30 pm

Research Overviews from R01/R56 Project Teams:

12:30 pm

Strengthening the Dementia Care Workforce: Analyzing Economic Policies’ Influence on Workers and their Patients Living with Dementia (slides)

Norma Coe, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Katherine Miller, Johns Hopkins University

12:30 pm

Role of Home-based Medical Care and Telemedicine in Care and Outcomes of Dementia and Coexisting Conditions in Public and Private Medicare (slides)

Amresh Hanchate, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

12:30 pm

Disparities in Undiagnosed and Misdiagnosed Dementia and the Impact on Health Care Utilization and Costs – A Novel Approach using Probabilistic Dementia Classifications (slides)

Péter Hudomiet, RAND Corporation, Senior Economist

12:30 pm

Care for Persons with Dementia in Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare: Family Spillovers and Disparities (slides)

Lauren Nicholas, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

12:30 pm

Impact of Medicare and Medicaid Financial Policies on Post-acute and Long-term Care for Persons Living with Dementia (slides)

Cyrus Kosar, Brown University
Momotazur Rahman, Brown University

1:45 pm

Questions and Discussion

2:00 pm

Background Presentations:

2:15 pm

Break

3:00 pm

ADRD and Long-Term Care: Research Opportunities and Challenges (slides)

David C. Grabowski, Harvard University

4:15 pm

Can We Detect and Treat Alzheimer’s Disease a Decade Before Dementia? (And Why We Must!) (slides)

Reisa Sperling MD, Mass General Research Institute

5:30 pm

Adjourn