A conversation with Dr. Julie Bynum, the senior author on a study that examines how the likelihood of receiving a diagnosis of dementia has changed over the last decade.
We’ll discuss what this might mean clinically and what researchers that rely on Medicare data should take-away from this finding. We also will talk in general about the various approaches that exist for identification of dementia in Medicare billing data.
Dr. Bynum is the Margaret Terpenning Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, and the director of the Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s, the center for which this very podcast is affiliated. Her research focuses on health system performance for older adults living with dementia who have high needs, as well as the use of administrative data for improvement of healthcare payment and policies. Dr. Bynum has extensive experience using Medicare claims in general for healthcare related studies. She’s here today to talk with us about the identification of dementia at the end of life.