IMPROVING COMMUNITY HEALTH AND AGING OUTCOMES

THROUGH INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM SCIENCE

ABOUT US

The Community Health and Aging Outcomes (CHAO) Lab is an interdisciplinary research group based at Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research.  We are committed to working with health care industry leaders, policymakers, and other researchers to ask important, creative, and timely research questions that can provide decision-makers with evidence-based guidance.

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OUR MISSION

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Identify and evaluate health systems and policy interventions that can improve community-based care for people living with advanced and chronic illness.

NEWS

Celebrating work of our research assistants and May graduates including  Jamie M. Smith, who

successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and co-led our newest paper and preprint: 

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Racial Disparities in Post-Acute Home Health Care Referral and Utilization Among Older Adults with Diabetes

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Timing of Home Health Care Initiation and 30-Day Rehospitalizations among Medicare Beneficiaries with Diabetes by Race and Ethnicity

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CONTACT US

Community Health & Aging Outcomes Lab

Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research

112 Paterson Street

New Brunswick, NJ 08901