Health Affairs Briefing: Aging and Health - Improving Care for Older Adults
Health Affairs held a briefing, "Improving Care for Older Adults," on September 24, sponsored by JAHF as part of Health Affairs' Aging and Health series.
A podcast of the event can be found here. The policy conversation featured authors from the journal’s Aging & Health series, as well as other experts in the field who discussed topics including:
- Moving Serious Illness Care from Hospital to Home
- Disparities in Home- and Community-Based Care
- Impact of Caregiving on Spouses and Need for Support
In addition to Terry Fulmer, President of The John A. Hartford Foundation, speakers included:
- Timothy G. Ferris, CEO, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
- Ann Hwang, Director, Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation, Community Catalyst
- R. Tamara Konetzka, Professor of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health Sciences and Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago Biological Sciences, on “A National Examination of Long-term Care Setting, Outcomes, and Disparities among Elderly Dual-Eligibles” (July 2019)
- Bruce Leff, Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Katherine A. Ornstein, Associate Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, and Research Director, Institute for Care Innovations at Home, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, on “Spousal Caregivers Are Caregiving Alone In The Last Years Of Life” (June 2019)
- Brad Stuart, Chief Medical Officer, Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, on “A Large-Scale Advanced Illness Intervention Informs Medicare’s New Serious Illness Payment Model” (June 2019)
- Jennifer Wolff, Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor and Director of the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
To listen to the briefing podcast, click here.
For more information on the briefing, click here.
To learn more about JAHF's support, click here.