By Amy Novotney January 20, 2023 Despite the growing telehealth use, especially during the pandemic, many doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers remain reluctant to use it when dealing with medical issues affecting older adults. A national survey of more than 7,000 providers provides insight into that reluctance. Conducted by the West Health Institute in… Read more »
By Lauren J. Mapp December 26, 2022 Three years ago, the county of San Diego adopted an Aging Roadmap, a comprehensive plan to support the region’s growing aging population. Last month, it hired its first chief geriatric officer to advance that vision. Dr. Lindsey Yourman will be responsible for building strong ties with social service… Read more »
By Rachel Cohrs December 22, 2022 Pandemic response gets a home at the White House The White House has relied on a rotating cast of temporary czars to coordinate responses to public health threats from Covid-19, to mpox, to AIDS, to the bird flu. But if the government funding package passes, pandemic preparedness will have a permanent… Read more »
By Kimberly Bonvissuto December 20, 2022 The relative independence and health of senior living residents compared with other long-term care recipients likely affect the use of telehealth in independent living and assisted living communities, but an author of a new study tells McKnight’s Senior Living that opportunities exist for such communities to save money, increase resident satisfaction… Read more »
December 13, 2022 For UVA Health geriatrician Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD, the pandemic-driven transition to telehealth inspired a years-long effort to optimize this technology not only for her patients, but for all older adults. In collaboration with West Health Institute and Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center (MATRC), Pannone developed the Collaborative for Telehealth for Aging. This effort brings together more than two dozen… Read more »
By Dan Witters and Nicole Willcoxon December 5, 2022 Editor’s Note: The research detailed below was conducted in partnership with West Health, a family of nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations focused on lowering healthcare costs to enable successful aging. Seven percent of U.S. adults, representing an estimated 18 million people, report recently being unable to pay… Read more »
By Jeffrey Davis December 1, 2022 Welcome back to the special blog series that ACEP is doing with the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC), as well as West Health and The John A Hartford Foundation! These blog posts delve into the concept of value-based care in emergency medicine. As a reminder, the first blog post in the series, posted in… Read more »
November 30, 2022 All we want for Christmas is good health — and good health care — for everyone. But to hear North Carolinians tell it, that goal is increasingly elusive. Most North Carolinians don’t believe their health insurance provider has their best interest in mind, according to a Meredith College survey, the results of… Read more »
By Alexis Kayser November 30, 2022 Americans’ health can be negatively affected by redirecting financial resources — a symptom of inflation that is on the rise, according to a Nov. 29 Harvard Business Review article. The article was written by Sean Duffy, co-founder and CEO of integrated virtual care platform Omada Health. Inflation hit a 40-year high… Read more »
By Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA.) November 21, 2022 The 2022 midterm elections are over. Inflation is at 7.7 percent. President Biden says he’ll do nothing differently. That’s where we stand entering this Thanksgiving weekend. But in true holiday fashion, there’s good reason to be thankful this year: Democrats are no longer in charge of the People’s House. Biden may… Read more »
