Analysis and visualization of longitudinal assessments of clinical, functional and psychosocial state of AD patients from the Massachusetts home care program

University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA

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Project summary This research will support MassAITC investigators in a collaboration with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA), which administers state home care programs in Massachusetts. EOEA support a network of 27 regional field agencies administering the Massachusetts state home care program. EOEA has contracted with Aging Service Access Points (ASAPs) to ensure that all consumers receive a comprehensive clinical evaluation in an appropriate and cost-effective manner. To this end, a Care Manager and/or Registered Nurse who is part of the program completes an extensive patient record with each home visit. MassAITC is proposing to use these unique data to develop machine learning models for several different tasks that will help to understand the factors that predict early termination. Our eventual goal is to identify modifiable predictors that could lead to interventions, and as a first step towards that goal, this project begins by cleaning the data to make it ready for machine learning analysis and explore the prediction problems for which sufficient data is present.