By Amy Herr, Erin Westphal and Scott Bane January 11, 2023 ASA is partnering with West Health, The SCAN Foundation and The John A. Hartford Foundation on a series of posts, virtual and On Aging programming to foster Multisector Plans for Aging across the country. This is the first in the blog post series. To… Read more »
By Liane Wardlow, PhD, Carly Roberts, MPH, and Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD, MPH, on behalf of The Collaborative for Telehealth and Aging December 9, 2022 Clinicians identify challenges in using tele-health with older adults, yet they continue to use it at high rates. We conducted a nation-wide survey of US clinicians to assess the… Read more »
By Amy Herr and Liane Wardlow November 22, 2022 Joyce, a woman in her 60s living in San Diego County, doesn’t want to move into a nursing home—despite having multiple chronic medical conditions and a history of severe back issues that have caused dangerous falls in the past. Fortunately, she doesn’t have to. Joyce can… Read more »
By Kevin Biese MD, Steven M. Handler MD, Liane Wardlow PhD, Zia Agha MD November 1, 2022 Telehealth has tremendous potential to improve healthcare access, efficiency, and safety; the COVID pandemic has only made this more evident. The high number of excess deaths1 and decreased utilization of medical care early in the pandemic,2 especially… Read more »
By Sean Dickson October 20, 2022 The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 mandates that Medicare-covered drug sales will be protected from price increases that exceed inflation, but the mechanics of this “inflation penalty” have generated some confusion. A top Medicare official recently noted that the per-pill value of the Medicare inflation penalty will be calculated based on average… Read more »
By Shelley Lyford October 12, 2022 Health care costs in the United States are simply untenable, threatening the financial health and personal well-being of Americans. Domestic spending on health care quadrupled from 1980 to 2018 and now accounts for 17% of GDP and 24% of government spending. Yet health outcomes in the U.S. lag well… Read more »
By Kevin Biese, MD, MAT; Timothy A. Lash, MBA; Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH May 20, 2022 Fruhan and Bills report that their quality improvement callback program for patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) was associated with a decrease in 3-day and 7-day ED revisits compared with control patients who did not receive this intervention…. Read more »
By Robert Mechanic, MBA and Kevin Biese, MD, MAT February 17, 2022 Older adults—particularly those with complex medical and social needs—are frequent users of medical care, but they are often not well served by America’s fragmented health care system. Most health care systems, particularly hospitals and other health care facilities, are not organized or operated… Read more »
By Kevin Biese, MD, MAT, 1 , 2 Sarah Lenz Lock, JD, 3 , 4 and Zia Agha, MD 2 In this journal, Lo and colleagues 1 share their survey of hospitals and emergency departments (EDs) across the country to determine how many had posted visitor policies and exceptions during the early stages of the COVID‐19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). Not surprisingly, almost all hospitals… Read more »
By Liane Wardlow and Virginia Suarez December 8, 2021 The holiday season is a traditional time of giving to those in need, particularly those who are food insecure. Favorite foods, family and good cheer go hand-in-hand, but the deluge of meals, packaged goods and grocery deliveries can’t correct a year-long struggle with malnutrition that increased… Read more »
