Halima Amjad
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
47 Papers
9 Citations
Halima Amjad is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 18 publications.
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Papers
Continuity of Care and Health Care Utilization in Older Adults With Dementia in Fee-for-Service Medicare.
TL;DR: Among older fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with a dementia diagnosis, lower continuity of care is associated with higher rates of hospitalization, emergency department visits, testing, and health care spending.
Unmet needs in community-living persons with dementia are common, often non-medical and related to patient and caregiver characteristics.
Betty S. Black,Deirdre Johnston,Jeannie Leoutsakos,Melissa Reuland,Jill Kelly,Halima Amjad,Karen D. Davis,Amber Willink,Danetta H. Sloan,Constantine G. Lyketsos,Quincy M. Samus +10 more
TL;DR: Higher unmet needs were significantly related to non-white race, lower education, higher cognitive function, more neuropsychiatric symptoms, lower quality of life in PWD, and having caregivers with lower education or who spent fewer hours/week with the PWD.
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"Let him speak:" a descriptive qualitative study of the roles and behaviors of family companions in primary care visits among older adults with cognitive impairment.
Judith B. Vick,Halima Amjad,Katherine C. Smith,Cynthia M. Boyd,Cynthia M. Boyd,Laura N. Gitlin,Laura N. Gitlin,David L. Roth,David L. Roth,Debra L. Roter,Jennifer L. Wolff,Jennifer L. Wolff +11 more
TL;DR: This work sought to understand how companion involvement affects the quality of primary care visit communication for older adults with cognitive impairment.
Social isolation and 9‐year dementia risk in community‐dwelling Medicare beneficiaries in the United States
Alison Huang,David L. Roth,Tom Cidav,Shang-en Chung,Halima Amjad,Roland J. Thorpe,Cynthia M. Boyd,Thomas K.M. Cudjoe +7 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the association between social isolation and incident dementia among older adults in a nationally representative sample of community dwelling older adults and investigated whether this association varies by race and ethnicity.
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Catalyzing dementia care through the learning health system and consumer health information technology
Jennifer L. Wolff,Catherine M. DesRoches,Halima Amjad,Julia Burgdorf,Melanie Caffrey,Chanee D Fabius,Kelly T. Gleason,Ariel Green,Chen-Tan Lin,Stephanie Nothelle,D. Peereboom,Danielle S. Powell,Catherine Riffin,Hillary D. Lum +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the promise of consumer-oriented health information technologies in supporting persons living with Alzheimer's disease and their care partners and delivering embedded ADRD interventions at scale, aiming to stimulate progress toward sustainable infrastructure paired with person-and family-facing innovations that catalyze broader transformation of ADRD care.
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