David B. Reuben

About

Dr. David B. Reuben holds the Archstone Foundation Endowed Chair in Geriatrics at UCLA School of Medicine. His research activities focus on geriatrics, with a particular emphasis on fall prevention, dementia care, and health outcomes in older adults. He has been involved in numerous clinical trials and studies aimed at improving care strategies for the elderly, including pragmatic trials on dementia care effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, fall injury prevention, and dementia care navigation. Throughout his career, Dr. Reuben has contributed significantly to the understanding of aging-related health issues, including the development of high-quality dementia care frameworks, assessment of end-of-life care processes, and evaluation of healthcare spending for Medicare beneficiaries with dementia. His work also explores the impact of practice redesign on health outcomes and costs, caregiver burden, and the integration of comprehensive dementia care. His extensive research portfolio and leadership in geriatrics have made him a prominent figure in advancing clinical practices and health policies for older populations.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Emergency medicine
• Gerontology
• Physical therapy
• Political Science
• Intensive care medicine
• Psychiatry
• Internal medicine
• Nursing
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation

Selected publications

• Dementia Prevention and Treatment

  JAMA Internal Medicine · 2024-03-04 · 151 citations

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  Importance: Dementia affects 10% of those 65 years or older and 35% of those 90 years or older, often with profound cognitive, behavioral, and functional consequences. As the baby boomers and subsequent generations age, effective preventive and treatment strategies will assume increasing importance. Observations: Preventive measures are aimed at modifiable risk factors, many of which have been identified. To date, no randomized clinical trial data conclusively confirm that interventions of any k…

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• Effect of a Multifactorial Fall Injury Prevention Intervention on Patient Well‐Being: The <scp>STRIDE</scp> Study

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020 · 24 citations

  BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES In the Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE) study, a multifactorial intervention was associated with a nonsignificant 8% reduction in time to first serious fall injury but a significant 10% reduction in time to first self‐reported fall injury relative to enhanced usual care. The effect of the intervention on other outcomes important to patients has not yet been reported. We aimed to evaluate the effect of the intervention on patient well‐b…

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• Health System, Community-Based, or Usual Dementia Care for Persons With Dementia and Caregivers

  JAMA · 2025-01-29 · 18 citations

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  Importance: The effectiveness of different approaches to dementia care is unknown. Objective: To determine the effectiveness of health system-based, community-based dementia care, and usual care for persons with dementia and for caregiver outcomes. Design, Setting, and Participants: Randomized clinical trial of community-dwelling persons living with dementia and their caregivers conducted at 4 sites in the US (enrollment June 2019-January 2023; final follow-up, August 2023). Interventions: Parti…

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• Validation of a Rule-Based ICD-10-CM Algorithm to Detect Fall Injuries in Medicare Data

  The Journals of Gerontology Series A · 2024-04-03 · 9 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Diagnosis-code-based algorithms to identify fall injuries in Medicare data are useful for ascertaining outcomes in interventional and observational studies. However, these algorithms have not been validated against a fully external reference standard, in ICD-10-CM, or in Medicare Advantage (MA) data. METHODS: We linked self-reported fall injuries leading to medical attention (FIMA) from the Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE) trial (reference stand…

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• The dementia care study (D‐CARE): Recruitment strategies and demographic characteristics of participants in a pragmatic randomized trial of dementia care

  Alzheimer s & Dementia · 2024-02-15 · 9 citations

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  INTRODUCTION: Pragmatic research studies that include diverse dyads of persons living with dementia (PLWD) and their family caregivers are rare. METHODS: Community-dwelling dyads were recruited for a pragmatic clinical trial evaluating three approaches to dementia care. Four clinical trial sites used shared and site-specific recruitment strategies to enroll health system patients. RESULTS: Electronic health record (EHR) queries of patients with a diagnosis of dementia and engagement of their cli…

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Recent grants

• Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Fall Injury Prevention Strategy

  NIH · $34.8M · 2014–2022

• NIH Grant R01HL071119

  NIH · $292k · 2005

• NIH Grant R01AG036776

  NIH · $1.0M · 2014

Frequent coauthors

• Neil S. Wenger

  135 shared

• Carol P. Roth

  91 shared

• David A. Ganz

  69 shared

• Paul G Shekelle

  VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

  56 shared

• Heather McCreath

  University of California, Los Angeles

  52 shared

• John Adams

  University of Rochester

  52 shared

• Lillian Min

  Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center

  51 shared

• Susan H. Hirsch

  Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center

  50 shared

Education

• M.D., Medicine

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1977

• B.S., Biology

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1973

Awards & honors

• Archstone Foundation Endowed Chair in Geriatrics

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