Throughout my career in aging, I have worked for and with community-based agencies. I know how essential these agencies are in helping older people remain well and in their homes by providing and coordinating needed supportive services. These critical services for older people who have difficulty with daily tasks or…
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About a year ago, we posted a holiday gift for you—a Tools You Can Use blog that featured a free toolkit with evidence-based resources for staff in senior living communities promoting non-pharmacologic strategies to address behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. We got a lot of response to that post…
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For two decades, the John A. Hartford Foundation has invested in the development and spread of the Hospital at Home model of care, which provides safe, high-quality, hospital-level care to older adults with select conditions in the comfort of their own home. Over those years, studies have consistently shown that…
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published Aug. 15 on the Health Affairs Blog. Jessie Gruman: "an elegant, gracious, yet fierce warrior advocate." Jessie Gruman, founding president of the Center for Advancing Health, died on July 14 after a fifth bout with cancer. Jessie was a hero to patients, families…
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Susie Jane Stringham My mother passed away recently after suffering from the terrible effects of Alzheimer’s disease for over a decade. About three years ago, I wrote about my experience being with her as she one day suddenly and eloquently expressed her fears and pleaded for understanding. It became…
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This week, a RAND research team published a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on a three-year evaluation of Patient-Centered Medical Homes in Pennsylvania, funded by the Commonwealth Fund and Aetna. Since, like almost everyone else, we believe in the potential benefits of enhanced primary care…
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While still shrouded in mist, the path to transforming our health care system is becoming more clear. While the view is still hazy, last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took a major step to clarify how it will address the major challenge facing Medicare (and…
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Amy Berman, left, and her daughter Stephanie at the American Cancer Society's Making Strides event in New York's Central Park. Maggie Mahar is an influential blogger on topics from health care reform to the economy. Maggie and I agree that we are not making sufficient strides in the war…
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Last month, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a major report on the State of U.S. Health 1990-2010 as part of the Global Burden of Disease project funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Bill and Melinda Gates…
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is swinging for the fences with the release of a new report, Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis. The report makes recommendations in six areas critical to the delivery of quality cancer care: Engaged patients An adequately staffed…
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