Dana Mukamel on How Widespread Dementia is in Nursing Homes

<p>To mark Insider’s one-year anniversary, enjoy <strong>$40 off Insider or Unlimited</strong> for new members! Use discount code <strong>InsiderAtOne</strong>.</p><p><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/subscribe/individual?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=hat&amp;utm_campaign=insider+anniversary">Sign up Today</a>.</p><br><p>Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Dana Mukamel from the University of California, Irvine on her recent paper <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.01263?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=a+health+podyssey">examining whether residents diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease</a> and related dementias are spread out across nursing homes or concentrated in a subset of nursing homes.</p><p>She and co-authors found that residents with dementia tend to be dispersed, with the vast majority residing in homes that treated residents with other diagnoses.</p><p><a href="https://www.pubservice.com/backissue/subbi.aspx?CO=PJ&amp;PC=HR&amp;BI=HRI&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=A+health+podyssey">Order the June 2023 issue of <em>Health Affairs</em></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/toc/hlthaff/42/6?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=a+health+podyssey&amp;utm_campaign=toc">Read the Issue's Table of Contents</a>.</p><p><em>Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. </em><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/membership?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=a+health+podyssey&amp;utm_campaign=insider"><em>With your support</em></a><em>, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.</em></p><p>Subscribe: <a href="https://feeds.transistor.fm/a-health-podyssey">RSS</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-health-podyssey/id1533852530">Apple Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3tAEbXdlzlcgjLTHfJMYqR">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=576615&amp;refid=stpr">Stitcher</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.google.