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Increasing Access To Dental Care For Seniors To Improve Overall Health
Time to Fashion A Quilt From The Patchwork Of Advance Care Planning
Patients Are The Sun: The Imperative For Consumer Engagement In Transforming Health Care
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Addressing “Triggers Of Decline” In Older Adults’ Physical, Cognitive, Or Mental Health
By 2030, 70 million Americans —that’s one in five—will be over the age of sixty-five. As more and more people hit that magical number every day, we likely have a picture in our minds of what a “healthy” older adult looks like—maybe going for walks, socializing...
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Increasing Access To Dental Care For Seniors To Improve Overall Health
Shirley, like other senior residents in downtown San Diego, faces stark choices in day-to-day life. With more than 40 percent of seniors in San Diego living below the self-sufficiency level , many, like Shirley, have to choose between paying rent and...
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Time to Fashion A Quilt From The Patchwork Of Advance Care Planning
Thank you for David Tuller’s outstanding synthesis of the issues and opportunities surrounding end-of-life discussions in the United States, presented in the March 2016 Health Affairs Entry Point, “Medicare Coverage For Advance Care Planning: Just The...
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Patients Are The Sun: The Imperative For Consumer Engagement In Transforming Health Care
On January 15, Community Catalyst , a national consumer health advocacy organization, launched its Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C. The event drew more than 150 leaders in health care...
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Preventing Older Adults From Falling: Evaluation Of A New York Foundation’s Initiative Shows Success
Chances are that you have fallen at least once or twice in your life. You’ve tripped over the dog or slipped on ice. If you’re lucky, you might end up with a bruised knee (and maybe a bit of a bruised ego), but you move on with your day. However, as you...
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Do Americans Understand Long-Term Care?
Results from a new national telephone survey found that “Americans continue to misperceive [the] cost and risk of needing long-term care,” said the SCAN Foundation , funder of the survey, in a July 9 e-alert. The Associated Press (AP)-NORC Center for...
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Advanced Care Model Honors Dignity, Integrates Health System For Seriously Ill People And Loved Ones
Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a periodic Health Affairs Blog series on palliative care, health policy, and health reform. The series features essays adapted from and drawing on an upcoming volume, Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious...
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Integrating Palliative Care Into Nursing Homes: Challenges And Opportunities
Editor’s note: The following post, on palliative care in the long term setting, is authored by Mary Ersek and David Stevenson (photos and linked bios above) and by Justine Sefcik, MS, RN, a fourth year doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania...
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October Health Affairs Issue: Economic Trends And Quality Trade-Offs
Health Affairs’ October issue , released today, evaluates the successes, the costs, and the quality trade-offs of improving physical and mental health in the United States. As Founding Editor John Iglehart says in his October letter , “Medical advances...
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Health Wonk Review: The Inauguration Edition
For the previous Health Wonk Review, Brad Wright chose a Baby New Year theme. However, there were some problems with the new beginning represented by the turnover from 2012 to 2103. For example, with the New Years fiscal cliff deal, one might have hoped...
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Too Many Medicare Advantage Choices Can Decrease Enrollment
A new Health Affairs Web First study finds that increased choice among Medicare Advantage plans leads to increased enrollment in the program among elderly Americans, but only when beneficiaries are choosing among 15 or fewer plans. When Medicare beneficiaries...
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The Year Of The Family Caregiver — In What Country?
President Obama has begun his campaign for re-election in 2012. Several Republicans have declared their intention to consider the possibility of running. Meanwhile, implementation of health care reform proceeds slowly, with threats of defunding and legal...
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Fact Vs. Fiction In Advance Care Planning, Take Two
For the second time, a proposal to pay health care providers to counsel Medicare beneficiaries on future care options and end-of-life planning has fallen victim to the politics of the health care debate. The House included language to pay physicians and...
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Narrative Matters: Refusing Mammograms And Caring For Elderly Parents
Which groups of women, if any, should get regular mammograms to screen for *** cancer? This question has been the subject of passionate debate. For example, when the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended that women without special risk...
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Informal Caregiving By And For Older Adults
Editor’s Note: For more on informal caregivers and related issues, see Bridging Troubled Waters: Family Caregivers, Transitions, And Long-Term Care and other articles in the January issue of Health Affairs, titled Advancing Long-Term Services &...
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