WebMD Article: Older Patients Deserve Age-Friendly Care
WebMD has published a blog by Dr. John Whyte, "Older Patients Deserve Age-Friendly Care."
The article discusses a newly released survey on age-friendly health systems, conducted by WebMD and The John A. Hartford Foundation, asking older adults and family caregivers about their health care experiences.
"The results were a bit sobering." Dr. Whyte, Chief Medical Officer at WebMD, notes that, "Forty percent of those surveyed were unaware that certain prescription medications affect the quality of their thinking," and that depression is often incorrectly thought of as an inevitable part of aging. The blog examines why older patients are not getting the care and the information they need, what age-friendly health care is, and ways to ask for age-friendly care that is always consistent with what matters to the older person.
To read the article, click here.
To go to the survey report, click here.
To learn more about the survey, click here.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.
