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This updated Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) created by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is designed to help providers and others better understand how to identify, manage, and prevent substance misuse in older adults.

This report from the Milken Institute Alliance to Improve Dementia Care centers around two overarching themes: (1) strengthening the infrastructure among health care, long-term, and community-based organizations to achieve greater health equity for people living with dementia and their caregivers and (2) expanding dementia-friendly networks and workplaces in racially and ethnically diverse communities. This report presents actionable recommendations to build health equity by reducing disparities in dementia prevention, detection, diagnosis, and care.

2023 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures is a statistical resource for U.S. data related to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia. Background and context for interpretation of the data are contained in the overview. Additional sections address prevalence, mortality and morbidity, caregiving and use and costs of health care, long-term care and hospice. A Special Report discusses Alzheimer's detection in the primary care setting.

This consensus study report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine examines the complex body of evidence on dementia care and informs decision making about which interventions are ready to be broadly disseminated and implemented. It also offers a blueprint to guide future research using rigorous, cutting-edge methods that are inclusive, equitable, and yield critical information for real-world implementation, toward the ultimate goal of better supporting persons with dementia and their care partners and caregivers in living as well as possible.

This report is part of the Better Care for People with Complex Needs Playbook. This report details the current landscape of integrated care models, and identifies policy recommendations to increase enrollment in integrated models and promote greater integration in existing programs.

This report is part of the Better Care for People with Complex Needs Playbook from the Bipartisan Policy Center. The report identifies three care models that states can choose to achieve full integrative care: (1) improved Fully Integrated Dually Eligible Special Needs Plans (FIDE-SNPs); (2) Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); and (3) a flexible model building off the managed fee-for-service model implemented in Washington State.

The NIH Inclusion Across the Lifespan policy requires individuals of all ages (including children and older adults) be included in clinical research studies unless there are scientific or ethical reasons to exclude them. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the Inclusion Across the Lifespan Workshop (IAL-II) including the topics of inclusion and exclusion criteria; study designs and metrics; recruitment, enrollment, and retention; and data analysis and study interpretation.

This report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality discusses the Chronic Care Model which emphasizes the need for an "informed activated patient" and a "prepared and proactive team" to improve patient outcomes. This Technical Brief applies a framework to create a map of the currently available evidence on patient and family engagement strategies that have been used to help people manage chronic conditions. The report focused on research regarding from national organizations focusing on health system and community/policy levels.

This report published by the RAND Corporation aims to understand barriers to that family caregivers face in collaborating with their loved one's health care team. The report identifies promising policy directions and provide recommendations for next steps in assessing, developing, and implementing policies to improve the integration of family caregivers into care teams.

Source: RAND Corporation, 2020
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA105-1.html

This framework from Grantmakers in Aging offers recommendations for bringing health care (HIV, geriatrics, primary, and specialty care), mental and behavioral health, psychosocial support, and social services closer and policies for improving the wellbeing of older people living with HIV.

Source: Grantmakers in Aging, 2020
https://www.giaging.org/initiatives/hiv-and-aging/moving-ahead-together-framework/