New survey from the West Health Institute
and NORC at the University of Chicago shows
few Americans approve of how President Trump
and Congress are addressing ‘unreasonable’
prescription drug costs.
Before I Found PACE “Before I Found PACE” is a new video series that is part of the PACE 2.0 initiative, which is supported by The John A. Hartford Foundation and West Health. The series will illustrate the need for expanding Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE®) through the stories and words of PACE participants and… Read more »
Emergency departments are the gateway to healthcare for most seniors, so across the U.S. hospitals need to rethink emergency departments.
There are a estimated 15 million family caregivers in the U.S. who are assisting seniors with functional and cognitive limitations. Family caregivers manage household tasks and finances, provide personal care and hygiene, and serve as care coordinators, thereby allowing the person living with dementia to remain in the community. In this formative research, we aimed to identify the training and resources caregivers need, the areas where they want to learn more, and obtain a better understanding of their unique challenges.
Medically complex seniors who receive home-based primary care (HBPC) often face challenges requiring home and community-based services (HCBS).
New models for delivering cost-effective and high-quality acute care are needed to meet the demands of the quickly growing and medically complex senior population. This is particularly true for seniors with heart failure who are often high utilizers of hospital-based services. In response, Geisinger health system implemented a mobile integrated health paramedic program (MIHPP) whereby trained paramedics provided home-based clinical care and management of seniors enrolled in their Heart Failure Clinic (HFC). This study examined the impact of the MIHPP intervention on seniors’ hospital-based utilization hypothesizing that participation in the MIHPP would lead to lower hospital-based utilization in the six months after the MIHPP intervention.
Through improvements in the identification of senior malnutrition and risk for malnutrition, community intervention, evaluation of best practices and research, and advancing policies that provide incentives for quality measurement and reimbursement for malnutrition related activities, the incidence of senior malnutrition can be reduced and avert an ever-growing threat to successful aging.
