Considerations for the Design of a
Systematic Review of Care
Interventions for Individuals with
Dementia and Their Caregivers
Letter Report
Committee on Care Interventions for Individuals with Dementia and Their
Caregivers
Board on Health Sciences Policy
Board on Health Care Services
Health and Medicine Division
A Consensus Study Report of
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COMMITTEE ON CARE INTERVENTIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR CAREGIVERS
ERIC B. LARSON (Chair), Vice President for Research, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington; Executive Director and Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
MARILYN ALBERT, Professor of Neurology and Director, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
MARÍA P. ARANDA, Associate Professor, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work; Executive Director, Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, University of Southern California
MARILYN BLUM, Former caregiver for a person with dementia
CHRISTOPHER M. CALLAHAN, Chief Research and Development Officer, Eskenazi Health; Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
EILEEN M. CRIMMINS, AARP Professor of Gerontology and University Professor, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California
PEGGYE DILWORTH-ANDERSON, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
XINQI DONG, Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Population Health Science; Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University
MIGUEL HERNÁN, Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
RONALD HICKMAN, JR., Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Nursing Research, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
REBECCA HUBBARD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
JASON KARLAWISH, Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
ROBYN I. STONE, Senior Vice President for Research, LeadingAge
JENNIFER L. WOLFF, Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor; Director, Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Study Staff
CLARE STROUD, Study Director
SHEENA POSEY NORRIS, Program Officer
DANIEL FLYNN, Research Associate
PHOENIX WILSON, Senior Program Assistant
BARDIA MASSOUDKHAN, Financial Associate
ANDREW M. POPE, Senior Director, Board on Health Sciences Policy
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