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Cognitive Impairment and Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses Among U.S. Older Adults

Qian, Yuting; Chen, Xi; Tang, Diwen; Kelley, Amy; Li, Jing - 2021

Cognitive impairment creates significant challenges to health and well-being of the fast-growing aging population. Early recognition of cognitive impairment may confer important advantages, allowing for diagnosis and appropriate treatment, education, psychosocial support, and improved...

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Cognitive impairment and prevalence of memory-related diagnoses among U.S. older adults

Qian, Yuting; Chen, Xi; Tang, Diwen; Kelley, Amy S.; … - 2021

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Economic perspectives on aging

Papadimitriou, Dimitri Basil (contributor) - 2007

Bureau projects that the proportion of the elderly in the total population will increase while the proportion of the working … Elderly. -- Economics of Aging ; Retirement and Health Care Programs ; Government Spending on Elderly ; Fiscal Pressures of …

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Household Self-Insurance and the Value of Disability Insurance in the United States

Kellogg, Maxwell - 2022

While the U.S. Disability Insurance (DI) system is large in terms of fiscal costs and beneficiary rolls, its interactions with household self-insurance mechanisms are not well-understood. In addition to crowding out the insurance value of DI, household self-insurance may drive negative selection...

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When the affordable has no value, and the valuable is unaffordable: The U.S. market for longterm care insurance and the role of Medicaid

Fels, Markus - 2016

I consider the popular argument of Medicaid crowding out demand for private long-term care insurance. I show that this argument rests on a wrong counterfactual comparison. Furthermore, I question the welfare-decreasing impact of Medicaid as it neglects a large value of the program in providing...

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When the Affordable Has No Value, and the Valuable is Unaffordable : The U.S. Market for Long-Term Care Insurance and the Role of Medicaid

Fels, Markus - 2016

The crowding-out by Medicaid has been identified as a possible reason for the low demand for private long-term care insurance. I extend the previous analysis to the case in which budget constraints inhibit access to care. This changes the nature, scope, and welfare implications of crowding-out....

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Why the Affordable Care Act, as Construed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Will Fail

Lambert, Thomas A. - 2012

Proponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) set forth two primary goals: (1) to constrain health care costs and (2) to expand health insurance coverage. In its June 28, 2012 decision upholding the constitutionality of the ACA, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively...

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Net government expenditures and the economic well-being of the elderly in the United States, 1989 - 2001

Kum, Hyunsub (contributor); Wolff, Edward N. (contributor); … - 2006

We examine the economic well-being of the elderly, using the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW … elderly are much better off, relative to the nonelderly, according to our broader measure of economic well-being than by … conventional income measures. The main reason for the higher relative LIMEW of the elderly is the much higher values of income from …

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A New Look at the Wealth Adequacy of Older U.S. Households

Smith, Paul A. - 2008

We construct two measures of the current wealth adequacy of older U.S. households using the 1998-2006 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The first is the ratio of comprehensive wealth - defined as net worth plus the expected value of future income streams - to the wealth that would...

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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States

Chen, Xi - 2020

This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal...

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