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@cdhauw.bsky.social
· May 20
Wisconsin is at the center of emerging scientific field with answers to ‘nature vs. nurture’
Do people have a genetic destiny, or are they more shaped by their environment and lived experiences? Wisconsin is front and center in ending the classic “nature vs. nurture” debate.
www.wpr.org
UW-Madison CDHA
@cdhauw.bsky.social
· May 20
Walking, public transit, and transitions to non-driving among US Medicare enrollees
Many older adults rely on private vehicles for their mobility and may continue to drive when they are advised to stop. Walking and public transit can …
www.sciencedirect.com
UW-Madison CDHA
@cdhauw.bsky.social
· May 13
UW professors discuss attacks on higher education, ‘fragility’ of U.S. democracy • Wisconsin Examiner
"How do you get dozens, if not hundreds of institutions, to start acting collectively to push back against this?" asked Mark Copelevitch.
wisconsinexaminer.com
UW-Madison CDHA
@cdhauw.bsky.social
· May 8
An Overlapping Cohorts Perspective of Lifespan Inequality - PubMed
A growing literature investigates the levels, trends, causes, and effects of lifespan inequality. This work is typically based on measures that combine partial cohort histories into a synthetic cohort...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
UW-Madison CDHA
@cdhauw.bsky.social
· May 1
Using National Survey Data to Estimate Healthcare Communication Disparities for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - PubMed
There are healthcare communication and satisfaction disparities between adults with and without IDD or other disabilities. Future research should characterise the size and exact nature of these dispar...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
UW-Madison CDHA
@cdhauw.bsky.social
· Apr 24
Emerging Domains for Measuring Health Care Delivery With Electronic Health Record Metadata
This article aims to introduce emerging measurement domains made feasible through the electronic health record (EHR) use metadata, to inform the changing landscape of health care delivery. We reviewed...
www.jmir.org
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UW-Madison CDHA
@cdhauw.bsky.social
· Apr 21
Eating and swallowing care disparities in persons with dementia: A conceptual framework - PubMed
There are eating/swallowing care disparities among persons living with dementia. We introduce a conceptual framework applying social and structural determinants of health to eating/swallowing care. We...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
UW-Madison CDHA
@cdhauw.bsky.social
· Apr 18
Alzheimer's research at UW-Madison could bear brunt of Trump's medical research cuts
Of UW-Madison's top 10 research grants from the National Institutes of Health, for which Trump announced a big cut, five involve dementia, including the top three.
madison.com
UW-Madison CDHA
@cdhauw.bsky.social
· Apr 17
Amyloid is associated with accelerated atrophy in cognitively unimpaired individuals
This study examined the association of longitudinal atrophy with baseline cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid beta (Aβ, A) and phosphorylated tau (p‐tau, T) biomarkers (Aβ42/40, p‐tau181) in 406 cogniti...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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UW-Madison CDHA
@cdhauw.bsky.social
· Apr 10
The Vocational and Educational Index: An Update to the Vocational Index to Reflect Contemporary Postsecondary Educational Options for Autistic Adults - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
The Vocational Index, a tool to reliably capture the range of vocational and educational activities in which adults with autism engage, is regularly used in studies of adult outcomes in autism. Howeve...
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