Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, Naoko Muramatsu, R Tamara Konetzka, Marshall H Chin
{"title":"Leveraging Health Services Research to Address Aging Health Equity.","authors":"Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, Naoko Muramatsu, R Tamara Konetzka, Marshall H Chin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To achieve optimal, equitable health outcomes for all older adults, the United States desperately needs equity in access to, quality of, and cost of aging care. To illustrate these needs, we discuss the current inequitable state of frailty care. Frailty disproportionately affects marginalized populations, yet these populations struggle to access high-quality geriatrics care and long-term care services and supports (LTSS) that mitigate frailty, leading to accelerated frailty trajectories. Health services research can provide the data needed to document, elucidate, and address health inequities in frailty care, including early identification and referral of frail adults to specialized care and financing LTSS.</p>","PeriodicalId":46845,"journal":{"name":"Generations-Journal of the American Society on Aging","volume":"48 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11429582/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142336820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jill Harrison, Susan L Mitchell, Ellen P McCarthy, Vincent Mor
{"title":"Pragmatic Clinical Trials for Dementia Care: Experience from the First 5 Years of the IMPACT Collaboratory.","authors":"Jill Harrison, Susan L Mitchell, Ellen P McCarthy, Vincent Mor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The IMPACT Collaboratory is a national infrastructure and resource dedicated to transforming dementia care in real-world environments for millions of Americans and their care partners, using embedded pragmatic clinical trials. This new approach of applied clinical research holds the promise of accelerating the science of dementia care, improving relevancy of interventions to real-world partners, promoting health equity, and closing the gaps between research, everyday clinical practice, and lived experiences of people living with dementia and their care partners.</p>","PeriodicalId":46845,"journal":{"name":"Generations-Journal of the American Society on Aging","volume":"48 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11429579/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142336821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Janelle Gore, Benjamin Denno, John D Omura, Matthew Baumgart, Lisa C McGuire, Kelly O'Brien
{"title":"Promoting Healthy Aging to Reduce the Risk of Dementia: A Public Health Imperative.","authors":"Janelle Gore, Benjamin Denno, John D Omura, Matthew Baumgart, Lisa C McGuire, Kelly O'Brien","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alzheimer's disease and related dementias place an enormous burden on individuals, families, health and long-term care systems, and governmental budgets. As the burden escalates with rising prevalence, attention has increasingly focused on how the risk of developing dementia can be reduced. Evidence indicates there are ways, from a population perspective, to reduce the risk of cognitive decline and possibly dementia, including through healthier lifestyles. It is imperative that the public health community lead the effort to address modifiable risk factors and social determinants of health for dementia and promote healthy aging through public health action.</p>","PeriodicalId":46845,"journal":{"name":"Generations-Journal of the American Society on Aging","volume":"47 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10979652/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140337189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intersectionality Can Shape the Support Networks of Older Women with HIV.","authors":"Jasmine A Manalel, Mark Brennan-Ing","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Older women living with HIV are an especially vulnerable population due to their experience of multiple stigmas resulting from intersectional identities. Using an intersectional convoy model to conceptualize social relations, we consider how HIV-related stigma, age, gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic position shape access to support resources through personal networks. We briefly review existing research on how intersecting identities and structural inequities might influence the structure, composition, and function of support networks among older people with HIV. Potential applications of the intersectional convoy model and implications for research and practice are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46845,"journal":{"name":"Generations-Journal of the American Society on Aging","volume":"47 Suppl 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11429504/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142336675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tam E Perry, Vanessa Rorai, Joann Smith, James R Bridgforth, Brenda F Evans, Adelia Cooley, Jamie Mitchell, Kent Key
{"title":"Consulting Program by and for Older Detroiters.","authors":"Tam E Perry, Vanessa Rorai, Joann Smith, James R Bridgforth, Brenda F Evans, Adelia Cooley, Jamie Mitchell, Kent Key","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article profiles a program in Detroit, MI, funded by the National Institute on Aging, called the Michigan Center for African American Aging Research and its key offshoot the Healthier Black Elders Center (HBEC). Board members of its Community Advisory Board weigh in on key programming and offer perspectives and recommendations on health and social issues. The HBEC Consulting Program is a blend of formal volunteering and paid work through consulting fees. The article also outlines next steps for HBEC.</p>","PeriodicalId":46845,"journal":{"name":"Generations-Journal of the American Society on Aging","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11431142/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142336674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Undoing Structural Racism Among Indigenous Older Adults to Promote Health Equity.","authors":"Cliff Whetung","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Indigenous older adults are a diverse and growing population that is not equitably included in gerontological research and continues to experience disparate health outcomes in later life. Resolving structural inequities endured by Indigenous peoples across the lifespan using existing policy mechanisms will only be possible if we better develop our theoretical frameworks to include Indigenous perspectives and develop research agendas that center minoritized aging populations. We illustrate this approach by proposing modifications to Title VI of the Older Americans Act and the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act.</p>","PeriodicalId":46845,"journal":{"name":"Generations-Journal of the American Society on Aging","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11407198/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}