Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
Dementia/Alzheimer's Disease
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Addressing the Ethical, Policy, and Social Challenges of Preclinical Alzheimer Disease
October 11, 2011 | Journal Article
Clinicians now can diagnose Alzheimer's disease before the onset of debilitating cognitive impairment
What We Talk About When We Talk About Alzheimer's Disease
March 12, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
A fundamental task of medicine is stratifying people into clinically meaningful categories. The term “stratifying” describes how physicians divide the sick from the well and then divide the sick into different stages of disease. In other words, the ...
Pre-Clinical Alzheimer's Tests Pose Clinical and Ethical Challenges
October 13, 2011 | Story
An RWJF scholar offers advice on how to make the best use of the latest generation of diagnostic tools for people at risk for dementia caused by Alzheimer's Disease.
Preservation of the Capacity to Appoint a Proxy Decision Maker
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Alzheimers researchers face the ethical question of how to obtain consent from patients whose decision-making is impaired. This study compared the ability of Alzheimers patients to provide their own consent to their capacity to appoint a research proxy.
Investigator Advances "Desktop" Theory of Medicine
March 10, 2011 | Story
Computers, biomarkers, risk assessments and other new tools are redefining how we measure disease and the ways medical professionals diagnose and treat patients.